Zuiderkerk

The Zuiderkerk, additionally known as Sint Pancraskerk is a late Gothic corridor church in Enkhuizen, inside the Netherlands, currently utilized by the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. In 1422 the citizens of Enkhuizen obtained permission from John III, Duke of Bavaria, to rip down the vintage church of Oostdorp, a village out of doors the Westfriese Omringdijk the dyke that protects the location that had flooded. The new church changed into devoted to Pancras of Rome, and building began in 1422 or 1423 in a patch of reed.

It become pronounced that the constructing website online needed to be raised notably, and that the walls have been as excessive as the muse walls had been deep. It was typically completed by means of 1458; the upper part of the 75 meter tall tower became completed in 1524, but via 1595 the tower became leaning six or seven toes and had to be set straight. Church and tower nonetheless dominate the cityscape. The tower is owned through the city of Enkhuizen and became restored and renovated in 1992. One of the church's greater notable preachers become Cornelis Cooltuyn, called the father of the Dutch Reformation.