Our church has been invited to join this year’s ‘Kerkenpad’ (Churches Path) trip , along with our sister congregations: the Lutheran Church (Spui), the Singel Kerk (Mennonite) and the Krijtberg (Roman Catholic on the Singel).

This year’s trip will take us to Oldenzaal, Tubbergen and Saasveld to visit three interesting churches and have a nice lunch together. The agenda for the day and further details are provided below.

Costs are €65 per person.

For more information and registration please visit the site of the organising church; the Krijtberg: https://krijtberg.nl/kerkenpad/  (Dutch language only). 

All are welcome to join.

Please note the deadline to sign up has now closed. The trip is fully subscribed, however, if you would like to be added to a waiting list to join, please contact scriba@erc.amsterdam.

PROGRAMME
8:45 Bus available for boarding – Amsterdam, Stadhouderskade, across from no. 47
9:00 Departure
11:00 Arrival in Oldenzaal, Plechelmusplein
11:45 Visit and guided tour of St. Plechelmus Basilica
13:00 Lunch in Lunchroom Blond Soup and sandwiches, coffee/tea/milk (other drinks available but not included)
14:00 Departure for Tubbergen
14:30 Visit St. Pancratius Church with windows by Fam. Joep Nicolaas
15:30 Departure for Saasveld
16:00 Visit St. Plechelmus Church and surroundings; windows by Jan Schoenmaker
17:00 Short Service of Worship
17:30 Departure
19:45 Arrive in Amsterdam

EXCURSION DETAILS
OLDENZAAL
Basilica of St. Plechelmus, with guided tour
St. Plechelmus was a monk, bishop and missionary. The St. Plechelmus Basilica was build around 1150 in the Westphalian Romanesque style. The tower was added in 1240. Around 1480 the side aisle was enlarged in the Gothic style. After 1500 the sacristy was built and the priests' choir lengthen, both in the Gothic style. The church is a vaulted cruciform pillar basilica. The original building style was late Romanesque.

LUNCHROOM BLOND
Run by a team of enthusiastic "maidens" with an eye to hospitality and a love of good eating and honest products. Everything is prepared with love and much of it is biological and super-fresh.

TUBBERGERN
St. Pancratius Church, with stained glass windows by Joep Nicolaas and Family
There had long been a chapel dedicated to St. Pancratius here when in 1634 a priest was appointed. Although the population was largely Roman Catholic, the church transferred to Protestant hands. When Louis Napoleon observed, in 1809, that only a few Protestants lived here, while there were many Catholics, he ordered the church to be returned to the Roman Catholics. The new church designed by architect Alfred Tepe opened in 1897. The church contains stained glass windows by the glaziers family Nicolas.

SAASVELD
St. Plechelmus Church and surroundings; Windows by Jan Schoenmaker; Short service of worship
Eight hundred years ago Saterslo Castle stood on the site of the present church, which was built on this church island in 1926. St Plechelmus Church has beautiful stained glass windows made by the Oldenzaal glazier Jan Schoenmaker. The Stations of the Cross are also admirable, exhibiting wood carving of exceptional quality. The unusual location of the church on an island surrounded by the old moat of the former Saterslo Castle makes this church especially worthy of a visit. Behind the church is a lovely garden with monumental trees, including a beech and a plane tree more than 150 years old. The pond marks the location where for almost 700 years the castle stood. The lovely nature around Saasveld also has much to offer.