Some Gelderland and Noord-Brabant improvements

In an attempt to clear my massive backlog, today here are some modest updates to pages about municipalities in the provinces Gelderland and Noord-Brabant. For Gelderland these are Nijmegen, West Maas en Waal and Wijchen, for Noord-Brabant these are Bergeijk and Oirschot. To all pages two or three objects were added. 

More similar updates coming soon.

Some more Gelderland

This announcement is a bit overdue as I have been struggling with an error in the html-code of one of the pages involved, but here we are with a new page about the Reformed church of Beekbergen as well as some improvements to the pages about Apeldoorn, both the city and the villages in the eponymous municipality as well. 

...and some more

The Gelderland section has three new pages, one about Heerde municipality and the other about the reformed churches of the villages Heerde and Vorchten  (picture).

In het Nederlands: er is een nieuwe pagina over de kerken in de gemeente Heerde.

A bit of Gelderland

The pages about the town of Harderwijk and the Barneveld municipality both had some objects added and a few pictures replaced, while the page about the reformed church (see picture) in the town Barneveld has a few new pictures as well. 

Various updates

A few more updates. 

New in the Utrecht section is a page about the reformed Grote Kerk in Wijk bij Duurstede. There's also a new version of the page about the reformed church of Doorn.

In the Noord-Brabant section the page about Oss municipality is expanded with seven more buildings, representing the former County of Megen, a catholic enclave since the Reformation until ca. 1800. 

In the Gelderland the page about the reformed church of Neerijnen is updated, once again, with recent pictures.

Concluding today's updates are some small changes to the pages about architects Th. Molkenboer, Th. Asseler, H.J. van Tulder and N.J.H. van Groenendael.

In het Nederlands nog even de mededeling dat de pagina over de gemeente Oss is uitgebreid met zeven gebouwen in Megen en Macharen.

Two new Gelderland pages

New in the Gelderland section are pages about Ede (the town itself and one village in the municipality) and Wageningen. 

Er zijn nieuwe pagina's over Ede (incl. Bennekom) en Wageningen.

Some more Gelderland updates

It seems I haven't mentioned the new page about Neder-Betuwe municipality yet, although I put it online perhaps two weeks ago. But never mind, now I can take the opportunity to also present to you the pages about two of the churches in that municipality, the reformed churches of Dodewaard and Opheusden. There are also a few new pictures at the page about the church of Echteld. To stay in the same region: there are some major changes to two pages about churches in the Buren municipality, being the Lambertuskerk in the town of Buren (picture) itself, and the church with the same name in Kerk Avezaath.

NL: er is een nieuwe pagina over de oude kerken in de gemeente Neder-Betuwe. 

Some municipal changes

Some updates before I forget about them. Mostly about 'newish' pages replacing older pages and largely containing the information of these older pages, but not without revisions and the odd picture change. 

• In the Gelderland section a big new page about West Betuwe municipality replaces the older pages about the former municipalities of Geldermalsen, Neerijnen and Lingewaal. 
• In Noord-Brabant the page Land van Cuijk is taking the place of the pages about the former municipalities Grave, Boxmeer and Sint Anthonis. The page about Uden is replaced by a new page about Maashorst municipality. 
• In Zuid-Holland the page about Noordwijk is expanded with churches in villages that were part of Noordwijkerhout until 2019. No page replaced here, only new content added.

More Gelderland updates

Some more Gelderland updates, and surely not the last for this year. The page about Druten municipality is now pretty much complete with five more objects added to it. The pages about three catholic churches in the municipality have been rewritten and had many pictures added to them or old ones replaced. These are the H.H. Ewalden in Druten (picture), the St. Victor en Gezellen in Afferden and the St. Johannes de Doper in Puiflijk.

The pages about two churches in the Overbetuwe municipality have been given a similar treatment. Take a look at the reformed churches of Andelst and Herveld. 

Then there are two new pages, one about Beuningen municipality and the other about the Neder-Betuwe municipality.

NL: En dat laatste nog even in het Nederlands: er zijn twee nieuwe tweetalige pagina's over de kerken in de gemeentes Beuningen en Neder-Betuwe. Ik noem hier ook nog even de nieuwe pagina over de gemeente Maasdriel die ik bij de vorige update alleen in het Engels had vermeld maar die uiteraard ook tweetalig is.

First updates of the year

A happy new year to all visitors to my website. On a personal level 2021 could have been a lot better, but I did have some nice opportunities to take pictures and improve older pages and create some new ones. I made 19 trips (mostly short ones) that took me to 75 towns and villages where I took pictures of 148 churches, chapels and towers, 55 of which were new in my collection and have been or will be added to various municipality pages.

Speaking of updates, in 2021 there were the two big thematic updates concerning the architects W. te Riele and A. Tepe respectively, which together came with eleven new pages and a few radically improved ones. Three new architects were also added to that section as well as two more specific churches. That's a total of sixteen new pages. Older pages were improved in the Gelderland and Limburg section mostly. 

Work on the page about another architect was only one of the many victims of this year's long interruption between February and October. I hope to tell you all about this J.W. Boerbooms and his churches soon. And perhaps I'll do another architect-related thematic update again. 

Now let's hope, once again, for a better year. Here for a start are the first updates:

New the Gelderland section is a page about the municipality Maasdriel. In the Utrecht section the pages about the Vijfheerenlanden, Soest and Zeist municipalities are expanded, while the one about the St. Joseph church in Zeist (another W. te Riele update) has many new and improved pictures.

Last update of the year: Gelderland

The very last update of this somewhat strange year concerns some pages in the Gelderland section, all with several new  pictures and much enhanced text. These are the Stefanus in Zoelen (picture) and the St. Maarten in Tiel, as well as the Gasthuiskapel and St. Maarten in Zaltbommel. The page about Zaltbommel municipality now shows a few more village churches.  

Alfred Tepe updates

An update at last. Due to personal issues I have little time or attention for structural updates and this will probably last for a while. Still, my activities have not come to a stand still and new pages have been in the works, only taking longer to complete. Today five pages of churches designed by Alfred Tepe were added. In the Gelderland section these are the St. Pancratius in 's-Heerenberg, the St. Martinus in Baak and the H. Georgius in Bredevoort, in the Noord-Holland section the St. Antonius in Kortenhoef (picture) and in the Utrecht section the St. Willibrordus of Everdingen. That section also now has a much improved page about the St. Michaël in Schalkwijk.

Summing up...

Summing up some more pages with better looking, or at least more colourful, pictures, all thanks to Photoshop: 

• Aalten (G): reformed church or Helenakerk
• Aalten (G): Oosterkerk
• Almelo (Ov): Grote Kerk
• Almelo (Ov): St. Egbertus
• Arnhem (G): Eusebiuskerk (picture)
• Arnhem (G): H. Hart van Jezus
• Bornerbroek (Ov): St. Stephanus
• Delden (Ov): reformed church
• Dokkum (Fr): reformed church or St. Martinus
• Leeuwarden (Fr): St. Johannes de Doperkerk
• Lemelerveld (Ov): H. Hart van Jezus
• Lichtenvoorde (G): St. Bonifatius 
• Lonneker (Ov): St. Jacobus de Meerdere
• Maastricht (L): Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk
• Maastricht (L): St. Jan
• Maastricht (L): St. Lambertus
• Maastricht (L): St. Martinus
• Maastricht (L): H. Hartkerk
• Maastricht (L): St. Theresia
• Maastricht-Sint Pieter (L): Allerheiligste Verlosser en St. Petrus
• Nieuwenhagerheide (L): H. Hart van Jezus
• Nieuwstadt (L): St. Johannes de Doper
• Rothem (L): Heilig Hart van Jezus 
• Sittard (L): St. Gemma
• Ten Boer (Gr): reformed church
• Uithuizermeeden (Gr): reformed church
• Wehe-Den Hoorn (Gr): St. Bonifatius

I'm not completely satisfied with every single one of these, some pictures are looking more like paintings now, but that's something I might look at later.

More Photoshop

Today I present a series of pages which had their pictures replaced, and often added a few extra, by versions made using the Camera RAW-filter in Photoshop. In most cases I think they're better, but I'm still mastering the technique. 

These are the pages:

• Ammerzoden (G): Reformed church
• Assen (Dr)
• Assen (Dr): Nederlandse Hervormde kapel
• Haren (Gr): reformed church
• Maastricht (L): St. Hubertus 
• Enschede municipality (Ov) (city only)
• Enschede (Ov): Lasonderkerk 
• Enschede (Ov): St. Jacobus de Meerdere (see picture)

Before and after

 

Some newly acquired Photoshop skills allow me to add more colour and atmosphere to my pictures. And although I will refrain from improving and replacing all older pictures, I do intend to improve many older pages that could use a bit more colour. So that's what I'll be doing for a while. Here are the first two of these pages, and both have improved text as well. First there's the reformed church of Ijsselmuiden in Overijssel, as illustrated above. The other, as seen below, is the St. Lambertus in Alphen aan de Maas, Gelderland. 

Back, with some more Gelderland

After two months absence here's another new page. This time about the reformed church of Rijswijk, a village in the Buren municipality, Gelderland. 

Some more Gelderland

Due to a merger last year, the pages about municipalities Geldermalsen, Lingewaal and Neerijnen are replaced by the new page West Betuwe. Several pages about specific churches in this municipality have slightly better text, while there's also a brand new page about the reformed church of Enspijk.

Gelderland updates

Finally a new update, with two new pages about the churches of Loenen in the Apeldoorn municipality, the reformed church and the catholic H. Antonius Abt. 

New Gelderland pages

It's yet another Monday update. Three new pages were added to the Gelderland section, a small (yet practically complete) page with five churches in the town of Doesburg and seperate pages for two of these, the Grote- or Martinikerk (picture) and the Gasthuiskerk. 

De eerste nieuwe tweetalige pagina van 2020 gaat over de kerken van Doesburg. 

Zutphen updated

With another Monday update, the third in succession, it might look as if weekly updates are back. That is not necessarily the case, but as long as I stick to updating older pages it's not that difficult. Here's another one, taking us back to Gelderland. The pages about the three medieval churches of the town of Zutphen, The Broederenkerk, the St. Walburgis and the St. Johannes de Doper, have all been updated with new and better pictures as well as some of my Photoshop antics like the one in this message. You may also notice an increase in the number of larger images.