In the Center of Ruinen

In the southwest part of the Dutch province of Drenthe you find a town with the name Ruinen. There in the center stands a State Reformed Church with a tower that was already built in 1423. The whole Church is built on the remnants of a church and a monastery of the Benedictines, which was built in 1140, but left behind in 1325. So the tower is Gothic, the chapel and the chancel were broken away, and when the Reformation came all that reminded of the Roman Catholics was removed. In 1928 the...