Hervormde Gemeente Hagestein - Hoef en Haag

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In a very, very distant past it was called Gasperden here. The Middle Ages are rough and lawless: in 1405 the town is razed to the ground after another siege. Only the church remains, wonderfully enough. The village is now given a new name: Hagestein. Then: 1674, a hurricane destroys the nave of this church. Not only here, the Dom in Utrecht will also die, as will the church towers of Vleuten, Jutphaas, Bunnik, Houten and IJsselstein, and much more in Holland during this 'terrible tempest'. Only in 1830 (!) The remains of the building are replaced. Only the tower remains. Look at the time, at what that tower has seen and experienced.