Although
Gothicism had already lost most if its popularity over a hundred years before, a purely Gothic church was built in Harkstede as late as 1692,
designed by mason Henric Coeur and carpenter Geert van der Aa by
commission of Henric Piccardt and his wife Anna Elisabeth Rengers. It
was
completed in 1700 and was built against the tower of the church's predecessor,
which had been at some distance to the north-east of the current church and was
not attached to its tower. The old church was demolished in 1691.
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