St Nicholas Church, Deventer

[3] The Mountain Church was built between 1198 and 1209, near where the Deventer harbour section was at the time.

In the fifteenth century the Mountain Church underwent several renovations, which gave it a more late Gothic appearance.

Martha ordered the church to be built in peace with her loneliness, and let one of the two towers become slightly taller than the other one, since both sisters were of different height too.

So that will eternally remain the memory of our love and after our demise at any rate there be two towers that will not abandon one and another.

"[4] Another legend of the west tower is that it was taken under siege in the seventeenth century, by pirates on the river IJssel.