A first chapel was built on the same site when the Virgin Mary's Monastery Jerusalem was founded in 1246. The chapel was extended in 1459 into a place of worship with a tower and two choirs. A parish church dedicated to Saint Barbara was built in 1529. After the Reformation, the Protestants took possession of the church in 1659.[1]
The neo-Gothic tower was built in 1877-1878 to a design by J.H. Hanninck to replace the old tower that was demolished. In 1908 the dilapidated church from the end of the Middle Ages was demolished and a new church was built according to the plans of the architect Jan Verheul, while the tower was preserved.
The church received the status of a national monument in 1997. In 2002 the building was restored for the first time and in 2013 a new restoration followed by the PKN after the merger of the Dutch Reformed Church and the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands.