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Jachthuis in ’t Mul

Over the years Rolde had three town halls. The building at Hoofdstraat 11, designed by J. Neisingh in 1918, is still almost intact.

Rolde was a municipality of its own until 1998. The map with this entry points to the building at Hoofdstraat 11; the other two are described below as well.

The first town hall stood at Hoofdstraat 25, at the junction with the Gieterstraat and the Grolloërstraat. Sicco Tjassens built it in 1797. Before then the local authority had no fixed home and met at various addresses.

When the building at number 25 became too small, a new town hall was built in 1918 at Hoofdstraat 11, with a caretaker's house. The Assen architect J. Neisingh designed it in the traditionalist style that was usual at the time. During alterations in 1936 a lock-up for detainees was added at the back; it was later demolished. A wooden outbuilding for storing fuel was put up in the garden.

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Jachthuis in ’t Mul

800 m from de Jacobuskerk in Rolde

A wooden retreat on Nijlanderstraat, associated with the Duintjer family and recognisable by the named entrance gate.

Jachthuis in ’t Mul on Nijlanderstraat is a wooden retreat with an unusual history. The building originally stood in Dinxperlo and was moved to Rolde in the 1920s. Here it served as a hunting lodge for the Duintjer family, an industrial family from Veendam.

According to heritage association Heemschut, the lodge has no listed monument status. Members of the family bought it to preserve it. It is private property; view it from the public road and respect the enclosed grounds.

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Jacobuskerk

50 m

Photo: Rolde.nl - 2024

Rolde's Gothic church, with a tower that can be seen from far away. For centuries the Etstoel, the highest court of Drenthe, also met here.

The Jacobuskerk stands on the Kerkbrink, the green in the middle of the village. The tower used to be a landmark for travellers to and from Groningen, and the reference point when the Westersche Veld and the Oosterveld of Rolde were divided into plots: the plots start narrow near the village and grow wider further out.

Around the year 900 the first of three wooden churches was built on this site. Around 1200 came a large Romanesque church with a nave and two aisles, almost as wide as the present one but with a shorter choir. The present Gothic church was built between 1399 and 1428: first the tower, probably by the master builder Johan die Werckmeister, then the church. It was consecrated in 1427 or 1428. In 1598, after the Reformation, the first meeting of the Protestant congregations of Drenthe was held here.

Jachthuis in ’t Mul

Boerderij Kamps

Former railway station

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