Jesuit College

A Latin college was founded on the Markt in about 1830. In 1839, the college was taken over by the vicariate of Breda (mission area not yet granted archdiocese status). It became a minor seminary, which is the preliminary training for the actual priesthood. The neoclassical building on the Markt became the professors' house. In 1878, the Jesuit Fathers moved into the college and expanded it with an imposing garden wing, designed by Architect Nico Molenaar. This Molenaar was a pupil of Pierre Cuypers and everywhere in Tivoli you can see the great influence of this famous architect. Ornate brickwork, turrets, hoods and ironwork. Both inside and outside, you can still see plenty of it.

The Jesuits were traditionally associated with higher
education and scientific research. An observatory
was, of course, part of that. This college has the oldest
People's Observatory of the Netherlands. Research in space
also had to do with faith; the idea was that in the
cosmos could find traces of God's creation.
See more: Visit the Tivoli Observatory, the staff
will be happy to tell you all about it.
More architecture, of a slightly later date but in the same vein, is at
see in Oud Gastel. In 1910, a new neo-Gothic
church building erected, against an old church tower from the
fifteenth century.