Last update of the year

Now the end of the year is nearing, it's time for the last updates of 2018 and my traditional looking back on the year. 

To go back in time a little further than that: in August 2011 I began adding Dutch translations to the pages about cities, towns and municipalities, with the first ten pages published in September and at that time still about 140 more to go. I never expected it would take me seven years to complete this undertaking, but today I believe the job is done, with four pages about municipalities in Noord-Brabant. Goirle, Haaren, Oirschot and Oisterwijk are now bilingual and improved, with objects added on all pages except for Oirschot. The Haaren page replaces the old Helvoirt page. For this page I had to resort to using ancient pictures made with the old Mavica camera (all made in 2001), but some day these will be replaced.

Although back in 2011 I announced the architect's pages would be translated next, I hesitate to do so, as there are so many of them. Since most of the history and styles pages could use a big overhaul I'm considering translating those in the process. 

The statistics for 2018. This year I took 4602 pictures of 224 churches, 163 of which I visited for the first time, in 85 cities, towns and villages. Especially many in Gelderland and Noord-Holland, but also in Utrecht, Zuid-Holland, Overijssel and Friesland. The latter is a province I hadn't been to since 2008. Many of these churches are now on this website, but many others are still not. My backlog is not getting any smaller.

There were 23 messages on this weblog, not counting this one, to announce the updates. There were only 16 new pages; 6 locations, 9 churches, 1 architect. And of course, four older pages were translated, while ten pages about cities, towns and municipalities were expanded, including a few big updates. There were many changes to the architects pages, especially in the form of new pictures. And many smaller changes I can't remember.  

There were over 20,000 pageviews by 11,000 visitors from 126 different countries, most of whom use a PC. Many of these visit once or twice, but there also seem to be hundreds of regular visitors, for which I'm especially grateful.

Enough for the statistics, please come back in 2019!   


En na deze lap tekst in het Engels wil ik toch ook nog even in het Nederlands melden dat alle pagina's over steden, dorpen en gemeentes nu tweetalig zijn. Althans, dat geloof en hoop ik. In totaal nu 199 pagina's. De laatste pagina's betreffen de volgende gemeentes in Noord-Brabant: Goirle, Haaren (komt in plaats van Helvoirt), Oirschot en Oisterwijk. Volgend jaar hoop ik een begin te kunnen maken met het vertalen van een andere categorie pagina's. Graag tot volgend jaar! 

Noord-Holland once again

The page about Alkmaar has some old pictures replaced and some new ones added, including a few of churches in several villages in the eponymous municipality.

De pagina over Alkmaar is uitgebreid en bevat nu ook een aantal kerken uit enkele dorpen in de gelijknamige gemeente.   

Architect added

A new page was added, about protestant architect E.J. Rothuizen. 

Friesland again

 


It's back to the province of Friesland with a page about its southernmost municipality Weststellingwerf. Actually its contents are restricted to its major village Wolvega but as I hope to visit that part of the country again next year I chose to already use the name of the municipality. 

That page comes with seperate pages about the two biggest churches in Wolvega, the reformed church and the catholic St. Franciscus. 

In het Nederlands: de sectie Friesland is uitgebreid met een pagina over de gemeente Weststellingerwerf, met echter vooralsnog alleen kerken in Wolvega. 

Architects

Two pages about architects were updated today. The one about H.P.J. de Vries has pictures of two objects added as well as one picture replaced. The page about J.G.A. van Dongen has two new pictures and improved text.

More Apeldoorn

The pages about the four (former) catholic churches of Apeldoorn are all updated:

• Mariakerk : two pictures and some text added
• H.H. Fabianus en Sebastianus : almost all pictures replaced, better text
• St. Teresia : several pictures replaced by better ones, small textual changes 
• St. Victor (see picture): several pictures added, some textual changes.

Big Apeldoorn update

Before

The page about the city of Apeldoorn, Gelderland has had a major update; the old version had many pictures taken in winter, with dark skies and plenty of snow. Most of these have been replaced by new pictures taken last Summer, with blue skies and plenty of sunshine. In all, seven pictures  were replaced. Also three objects were added, making this page practically complete.

After

A second page was added to cover the churches in the villages of the Apeldoorn municipality, at this moment a total of eight churches in six villages. Not complete by far, but a very nice start anyway.

De pagina over Apeldoorn is flink uitgebreid met onder meer een tweede pagina voor de kerken in de dorpen van deze gemeente.

..and another one

This time the page about the town Hoorn is updated. Two older pictures are replaced while eight 'new' objects were added. The page is now about Hoorn municipality.

De pagina over Hoorn is flink uitgebreid. 

More Noord-Holland updates

Following the recent Enkhuizen page update, here is a page about one of the churches in that town, the St. Gommarus- or Westerkerk.

In the same part of the country is the Koggenland municipality, which is the subject of another new page.

Er is een nieuwe pagina over de gemeente Koggenland in Noord-Holland.

Noord-Holland update

Some big changes to the Enkhuizen page; better text, four out of five older pictures replaced and seven objects added. 

Friesland update

Two new pages in the Friesland section; a page about the village (actually more of a city) of Heerenveen and one about its biggest church, the catholic Heilige Geestkerk (see picture). Also the page about the architect of this church, H.C.M. van Beers, is improved in several ways. 

Er is een nieuwe tweetalige pagina over Heerenveen.

Architects updates

It's about time that I should sum up all the architect's pages that were updated in the last two months with some of the many pictures I took during my most recent trips. 
Here's a nice list:

• Th. Asseler, one picture replaced
• H.C.M. van Beers, two new pictures
• J.Th.J. Cuypers, two new pictures
• J.G.A. van Dongen, four new pictures, of which three replacing old ones
• C.A. Hardeman, one new picture
• F.B.J. Jantzen, one new picture  
• H. Kroes , four new pictures
• A.J. Kropholler, one new picture 
• E.J. Margry, one new picture 
• N. Molenaar jr., two new pictures
• Th. Molkenboer, three new pictures, one of which replacing an old one
• E. Reitsma, one picture replaced
• J. Stuyt, one new picture 
• H.P.J. de Vries, one new picture

Overijssel updates

The page about Deventer municipality is updated with two more objects and one better picture for an older object.

Completely new are a page about Olst-Wijhe municipality and a page about the reformed church of Wijhe, as seen in the picture.

In het Nederlands, en voortaan doe ik dat ook hier cursief, wijs ik graag op de nieuwe pagina over de gemeente Olst-Wijhe. 

Major Rotterdam update

The pages about the city of Rotterdam and its southern part Rotterdam-Zuid have had a massive update with pictures and descriptions of no less than 17 objects added, mostly from neighbourhoods that were missing until now. Plus, a couple of older pictures were replaced and lots of text rewritten.  

Another Gelderland update

An improved page about Rheden municipality; seven objects added, two pictures replaced by better ones.

New Gelderland pages

Three new pages in the Gelderland section. First, there's a modest page about the Lingewaal municipality. The other pages are about two churches in this municipality, the reformed churches of Heukelum and Spijk respectively.

In het Nederlands de mededeling dat er nu een bescheiden pagina is over kerken in de gemeente Lingewaal. 

Architects

Three architect's pages are updated: the page about A. Nauta has two new pictures, the one about H.C.M. van Beers one. The page about J.Th.J. Cuypers has one new picture but also improved text, with some more information about Cuypers' son P.J.J.M. Cuypers or Pierre Cuypers jr.., including the churches the latter designed without his father. 

New church page

A new page in the Utrecht section, about the reformed church of Westbroek. 

Utrecht updates

A few updates in the Utrecht province section. First, a couple of better pictures on the page about De Bilt municipality of two churches in the village of that same name. Second, some important changes to page two of the Utrecht municipality, the one with the churches outside the old center. Four pictures replaced, two objects added and thus now more complete than ever. And third, new pictures and better text on the page about the St. Aloysius church, as seen in the picture above.

Another Friesland update

The second update this year in the Friesland section concerns the Leeuwarden page; more than before it's now about the municipality rather than just the city. Much improved and more up to date text. Also several pages about village churches are now connected to the Leeuwarden page, and some of these pages have better text as well.

A Friesland update

The first update (not counting translations) in the Friesland (or Fryslân) section since 2011, with the promise of a bit more to come. As the Súdwest Fryslân municipality was expanded recently this gave me the opportunity to add a few objects not included before. I also updated the text of this page, as well as some of the pages about specific churches in this municipality.  

Gelderland, a 'newish' page

A new page about the Renkum municipality has been added, containing all the objects that used to be on the old Oosterbeek page, but now with updated text, as well as churces in the villages Renkum and Heelsum. Not complete but nice anyway.

Nieuw in de Gelderland sectie is een pagina over de gemeente Renkum, ter vervanging van de oude pagina over Oosterbeek.

Gelderland, a new page

The first new page about the year is about the St. Donatus in Bemmel, a catholic post-war church by architect J.H. Sluijmer. This church was recently converted into a theater, but all pictures on this page were made back in 2006 (which illustrates how big my backlog is) when there was still no talk of closing the church, let alone about its future destination. The pictures are accompanied by a fairly comprehensive history. 

First update of the year

A very belated happy new year to all of you, with the first month of 2018 almost over. The first update of the year is a small one, with a few new pictures on the page about the Reformed church in Ressen, Gelderland. 

Because I didn't in December, I'd like to take this opportunity to look back at 2017. There were 27 updates with at least one each month. There were a few new pages about towns and municipalities in Noord-Brabant and Zuid-Holland as well as seven seperate churches. Six new architects' pages were added. There were many small and big changes, including a few significant improvements to pages about towns and municipalities especially in the provinces Zuid-Holland and Gelderland. 11 pages were translated to Dutch. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few things, but I think these are the highlights of last year. 

We'll see what 2018 will bring. I hope you'll enjoy it.