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Bildts
Bildts () is a conservative Hollandic dialect spoken in the largest part of the former municipality Het Bildt in the Dutch province of Friesland. The dialect retains features from around 1505, when the area was reclaimed from the sea as ordered by George, Duke of Saxony. In order to achieve this task, workers from Holland, Zeeland, and Brabant moved to Friesland. The apparent similarity to present-day Frisian is due to the evolution of Frisian from the sixteenth century into the present. Bildts is spoken in the towns of Sint Annaparochie (Bildts: Sint-Anne), Sint Jacobiparochie (Sint-Jabik), Vrouwenparochie (Froubuurt), Oudebildtzijl (Ouwe-Syl), Westhoek (De Westhoek) and Nij Altoenae. The inhabitants of Minnertsga, a village located outside the polder area of the former Middelzee The Middelzee (Dutch for "middle sea"; fry, Middelsee), also called Bordine, was the estuary mouth of the River Boorne (West Frisian: ''Boarn'') now in the Dutch province of Friesland. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vrouwenparochie
Vrouwenparochie ( fry, Froubuorren; Bildts: ''Froubuurt'') is a village in Waadhoeke municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands, with a population of around 685 in 2021. It is called ''Froubuurt'' in the dialect of Het Bildt. There is a restored windmill in the village, De Vrouwbuurstermolen. History The village was first mentioned in 1570 Kijfhueck, parochie o.l. frovwen, and means "parish of Our Sweet Lady (=Mary, mother of Jesus)" who was the protector of the village. In the early days, the village was known as Kijfhoek, after the eponymous village of the earliest settlers. In 1504, a deal was struck between George, Duke of Saxony and four noblemen from Holland to '' polder'' the Middelzee. Each group of settlers had to select a patron saint. In 1505, the dike was constructed. The same year, the middelweg was built as an east-west connection through the new land of het Bildt. Vrouwenparochie developed along the road (nowadays: ) as a linear settlement. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sint Annaparochie
Sint Annaparochie ( West Frisian and Bildts: ''Sint-Anne'') is a village in the municipality of Waadhoeke in Friesland, Netherlands. It lies approximately northwest of Leeuwarden and had approximately 4,830 inhabitants in 2021. The village is named after Saint Anne, the mother of Mary. History The village was first mentioned after 1570 as "altoenae, s. annen parochie", and means "parish of Saint Anne". It was originally called Altoenae after the estate near Delft which was the neighbourhood where Dirk Oem van Wijngaarden, one of the first settlers, grew up. In 1504, a deal was struck between George, Duke of Saxony and four noblemen from Holland to '' polder'' the Middelzee. Each group of settlers had to select a patron saint. In 1505, the dike was constructed and the village was created by the reclamation of the Bildt. The village was founded as one of the three settlements where the workers involved in the reclamation of the Bildt lived. Sint Annaparochie turned into a linea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sint Jacobiparochie
Sint Jacobiparochie ( West Frisian and Bildts: ''Sint-Jabik'') is a village in the municipality of Waadhoeke in Friesland, the Netherlands. It lies about 13 km north of Franeker and had approximately 1,365 inhabitants in January 2017. History The village was first mentioned in 1570 as s. iacobus parochie, and means "parish of Saint Jacob". In 1504, a deal was struck between George, Duke of Saxony and four noblemen from Holland to '' polder'' the Middelzee. Each group of settlers had to select a patron saint. In 1505, the dike was constructed. Sint Jacobiparochie was founded in 1505, when Het Bildt was diked in by workers from South Holland, Zeeland and Friesland, among others. It was initially called Wijngaarden, as the place was founded largely by Dutch settlers from Wijngaarden in South Holland. Today, both Dutch and West Frisian are spoken in the town. The town was originally named Wijngaarden after their Wijngaarden home town), while "St. Jacobiparochie" was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollandic Dialect
Hollandic or Hollandish ( ) is the most widely spoken dialect of the Dutch language. Hollandic is among the Central Dutch dialects. Other important language varieties of spoken Low Franconian languages are Brabantian, Flemish (East Flemish, West Flemish), Zeelandic, Limburgish and Surinamese Dutch. History Originally in the later County of Holland, Old Frisian was spoken. Low Franconian settlers did not come until the 12th and 13th centuries , when Flemish settlers, speaking, played an important part in draining the swamplands between the coast of Holland and the city of Utrecht. They mixed with the original inhabitants, and a Hollandic dialect was created that was partly Low Franconian and partly Frisian . In the 16th century, Dutch was standardised, with the Brabantian dialect of Antwerp being the most influential one, according to many linguists. The written language of the County of Holland, which was the most urbanised area in Europe, began to imitate the Brabantian stand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waadhoeke
Waadhoeke is a municipality of Friesland in the northern Netherlands. It was established 1 January 2018 and consists of the former municipalities of Franekeradeel, het Bildt, Menameradiel and parts of Littenseradiel, all four of which were dissolved on the same day. The municipality is located in the province of Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands. Waadhoeke is bordered by Harlingen, Terschelling, Ferwerderadiel, Leeuwarden and Súdwest-Fryslân. The population in January 2019 was 46,133. It is Friesland's sixth-most-populous municipality. The largest population centre (2018 population, 12,793) is Franeker. The residents speak Dutch, West Frisian or Bildts (a dialect in the former municipality het Bildt). Etymology The municipality is named after the Wadden Sea ( fry, Waadsee). The municipality is a part or corner ( fry, hoeke) of the province of Friesland. Population centres The municipality consists of 41 settlements of which Franeker is the seat of gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nij Altoenae
Nij Altoenae ( fry, Nij Altena; Bildts: ''Nij Altoenae'') is a village in Waadhoeke municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 300 in January 2017. History The village was first mentioned in 1958 as Nij-Altoenae. Nij (new) was added to distinguish between Altoenae. Altoenae was the former name of Sint Annaparochie which was named after the estate near Delft, the neighbourhood where Dirk Oem van Wijngaarden, one of the first settlers, grew up. The village used to be call 't Wegje and had the status of a hamlet. The Reformed Church was built in 1918. In 1928, a new church was built in a different location. The old church was sold, and is nowadays used as a shed. The new church was renovated in 2012. In 2006, Nij Altoenae became a village. Until 2018, the village was part of het Bildt Het or HET may refer to: Science and technology * Hall-effect thruster, a type of ion thruster used for spacecraft propulsion * Heavy Equipment Trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westhoek (Friesland)
Westhoek (Bildts: ''De Westhoek'') is a village in Waadhoeke in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of approximately 255 in 2021. History Westhoek (western corner) is the western part of the Oudebildtdijk, which is the longest local road of the Netherlands with a length of . Westhoek is considered outside of the build-up area, however it does have place name signs and a 30 km/h speed limit. The dike was built in 1505 and het Bildt was poldered which became the last ''grietenij'' (predecessor of municipality) of Friesland. Around 1600, a new dike was constructed, and the old dike turned into a linear settlement. Around 1960, Westhoek was planned to be demolished, because many of the houses and farms were in bad conditions or derelict, and were not connected to the sewage system, however tiny adverts were placed in the major daily newspapers by the slumlords offering cheap houses, Most buildings were quickly sold and subsequently restored. Before 2018, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oudebildtzijl
Oudebildtzijl ( fry, Aldebiltsyl; Bildts: ''Ouwe-Syl'') is a village in Waadhoeke municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 690 in January 2017. It is the starting point from which the Oude Bildtdijk was created. Until 2018, the village was part of the het Bildt municipality. History The village was first mentioned after 1570 as niuwe zijl, and means "sluice in the old Bildt. It refers to a sluice from 1505. In 1600, the Nieuwe Bildtdijk was constructed and oude (old) was added to distinguish from . In 1504, a deal was struck between George, Duke of Saxony and four noblemen from Holland to '' polder'' the Middelzee. In 1505, a dike (Oude Bildtdijk) was constructed. The sluice was renewed in 1906. In 1806, a Mennonite Church was built in Oudebildtzijl. In 1909, the church was enlarged and a clergy house with tower was added to the front. The Juliana tower is in neoclassic style with an open pavillion. The church was decommissione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Dialects
Dutch dialects are primarily the dialects that are both cognate with the Dutch language and are spoken in the same language area as the Dutch standard language. Dutch dialects are remarkably diverse and are found in the Netherlands and Flanders, northern Belgium. The province of Friesland is bilingual. The West Frisian language, distinct from Dutch, is spoken here along with standard Dutch and the Stadsfries dialect. A West Frisian standard language has also been developed. First dichotomy In the east, there is the Dutch Low Saxon language area: in Groningen (province), Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, major parts of Gelderland, and parts of Flevoland, Friesland and Utrecht (province), Utrecht. The group is not Low Franconian and forms together with the Low Saxon variants in Germany the West Low German, Low Saxon language. Image:Nederfrankisch.png, Map of traditional Low Franconian dialects Image:Koart Leegsaksisch.png, Low Saxon in the Netherlands Extension across the borders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middelzee
The Middelzee (Dutch for "middle sea"; fry, Middelsee), also called Bordine, was the estuary mouth of the River Boorne (West Frisian: ''Boarn'') now in the Dutch province of Friesland. It ran from as far south as Sneek northward to the Wadden Sea and marked the border between main Frisian regions of Westergoa (Westergo) and Eastergoa (Oostergo). Other historical names for the Middelzee include Bordaa, Borndiep, Boerdiep, and Bordena. The names like Bordine, mean "border". Pre-history Back in the Pleistocene the Boorne was a river that had a drainage basin in Friesland, Drenthe, and Groningen. It flowed from Saalien glacial till plateau in a southwest direction, and met the sea west of Het Bildt. The Boorne passed the current location of Akkrum and Rauwerd. The connection to the Wadden Sea became blocked by sand dunes in the Weichselian time period, and the mouth of the river was forced more and more easterly, until it was heading in a north-northwest direction from Akkrum. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polder
A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes. The three types of polder are: # Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a lake or the seabed # Flood plains separated from the sea or river by a dike # Marshes separated from the surrounding water by a dike and subsequently drained; these are also known as ''koogs'', especially in Germany The ground level in drained marshes subsides over time. All polders will eventually be below the surrounding water level some or all of the time. Water enters the low-lying polder through infiltration and water pressure of groundwater, or rainfall, or transport of water by rivers and canals. This usually means that the polder has an excess of water, which is pumped out or drained by opening sluices at low tide. Care must be taken not to set the internal water level too low. Polder land made up of peat (former marshland) will sink in relation to its previous l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnertsga
Minnertsga ( fry, Minnertsgea) is a village in Waadhoeke municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 1,750 in January 2017. Before 2018, the village was part of het Bildt municipality. History The village was first mentioned in the 13th century as Menerdkerke. It means "settlement of Meinard (person)". The name changed from kerk (church) to -ga (settlement) in the late-14th century. Minnertsga is a ''terp'' (artificial living hill) village from the 8th century. The Dutch Reformed church was built in the 16th century, but has 13th century elements. The tower dates from 1505 and received a new roof in 1818. The church was damaged by fire in 1947 and restored between 1951 and 1955. In 1940, the Galileërkerk in Leeuwarden was demolished, and some of the headstones have been moved to Minnertsga. Minnertsga was home to 1,140 people in 1840. There used to be a railway station in Minnertsga between 1902 and 1940. 85% of the residents of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
