Broerkerk
Groningen, Netherlands
No longer standing
Demolished or destroyed.
The Broerkerk in Groningen, Netherlands, was a medieval church originating around 1500 and connected to a Franciscan cloister. Located on the Broerstraat, it became the first Protestant church in the town following the city's entry into the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. In 1614, it was repurposed as the church of the University of Groningen. The building housed a notable organ built by Arp Schnitger in 1702, which incorporated pipework from an earlier instrument by Hendrick Hermans van Loon (1679); this organ was relocated in 1815 to the Der Aa-kerk when the church was restored to Roman Catholic use. By the nineteenth century, the structure had deteriorated significantly, and in 1895 it was demolished and replaced on the same site by the Sint Martinuskerk, designed by Pierre Cuypers. The remains of those buried within and around the medieval church were reinterred at the town's Roman Catholic churchyard.
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- Built
- Type
- church building
- Place
- Groningen, Netherlands
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