The meaning of the name is disputed but it is generally thought to mean "priestless church" or "popeless church". It is sometimes said that anti-Catholic sermons were held here in the 16th century.
The monument was heavily damaged in the 1860s by people using it as a quarry for building material. It was excavated in 1938 and again in 1958 by A. E. van Giffen. In 1959 he chose to restore it as a demonstration model of a Dutch "hunebed" tomb. Some of the stones were taken from elsewhere, including eleven stones taken from another hunebed . Half the tomb was covered in earth and the chamber was reconstructed with dry-stone walling. The other half of the tomb was left in skeleton form.
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