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Dantumadiel
Dantumadiel () is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. Dantumadiel is a rural municipality characterized by economic activity and agriculture. History The first time Dantumadiel is mentioned was in a document from 1242. At that time Dantumadiel, or ''Donthmadeil'' as it was then known, was a part of the Winninghe district, the northern part of Oostergo. The grietenij (municipality) Dantumadiel was led by a grietman (mayor) who was holding office in Rinsumageast and Dantumawâld. The Dutch Municipalities Act of 1851 (Dutch: Gemeentewet van 1851) abolished the grietenijen, which automatically became gemeenten (municipalities) headed by a mayo Population centres The Dantumadiel municipality is composed of 11 towns with a total of 19,030 inhabitants in 2014; the towns and their 2014 populations are listed in the table. Source: Website Dantumadiel municipality * Including Feanwâldsterwâl (Dantumadiel), Feanwâldsterwâl Main sights * Damwâld ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feanwâldsterwâl (Dantumadiel)
Feanwâldsterwâl ( nl, Veenwoudsterwal) is a village in the Dantumadiel and Tytsjerksteradiel municipality's of Friesland, the Netherlands. it had a population of around 420 in 2021, however Feanwâldsterwâl is not a statistical entity, and the population count is only an estimation. Together with the village of Feanwâlden it has a village interest association group under the name: ''Vereniging van Dorpsbelangen Veenwouden / Veenwoudsterwal e.o.''. History The village Feanwâldsterwâl originated as a peat colony of Feanwâlden. It was possibly founded by Gieterse Mennonites from Feanwâlden, alongside the water that has long formed the boundary between the municipalities and former Grietenijen Dantumadiel and Tytsjerksteradiel. The place was mentioned in 1664 as ''Diepswal''. This was the original place name and most of the occupancy at the time was on the waterside of Dantumadiel.Gildemacher, Karel F. (2007). Friese plaatsnamen: alle steden, dorpen en gehuchten. Leeuwarden, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rinsumageast
Rinsumageast ( nl, Rinsumageest) is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 965 in 2017. The village is locally called ''De Geest'' (Dutch) or ''De Geast''Gildemacher, Karel F. (2007). Friese plaatsnamen: alle steden, dorpen en gehuchten. Leeuwarden, Friese Pers/Noordboek (in Dutch) (West Frisian). History The modern village of Rinsumageast has its origins on the sand ridge in the northwestern edge of the Dokkumer Wouden. It is possible that the place originated on a artificial dwelling mound, an so called terp in the clay soil area within the village area, there were several terpen there and in the vicinity. In a 12th century copy of documents from 825 and 944, the place ''Ringesheim'' was indicated in this area. In the 12th century there is place that was called ''Rynsegum''. Around 1100 a church was built on the sand ridge, about 500 meters from two terpen. A village developed on the sand ridge, which is referred to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driezum
Driezum ( nl, Driesum) is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 850 in 2017. Together with Wâlterswâld it forms the twin village of Driezum-Wâlterswâld. The residential center of Driezum and the southern residential center of Wâlterswâld form a unit. The two villages have many common associations and a common village community centre, which is located in Wâlterswâld. On the eastern side of Driezum lies the hamlet Eastwâld. History The place Driezum is mentioned in the 12th century as ''Dresem''.Gildemacher, Karel F. (2007). Friese plaatsnamen: alle steden, dorpen en gehuchten. Leeuwarden, Friese Pers/Noordboek (in Dutch) This spelling also occurs in 1486-873 as well as in 1543. In the 16th century the maps speak of ''Dresum''. In 1520 Peter van Thabor calls the village ''Dryesen''. The village lays on a sand ridge in the scenic landscape of the Dokkumer Wouden. It is more than possible that the village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damwâld
Damwâld (Dutch: Damwoude) is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, in the Netherlands. In 2020 it had 5630 citizens. This number of citizens makes Damwâld the largest village in the municipality of Dantumadiel. History The present day village of Damwâld is a merged place of three older villages, merged in 1971. The three villages were; Dantumawoude ''(Dantumawâld)'', Akkerwoude ''(Ikkerwâld)'' and Murmerwoude ''(Moarrewâld)''. But it was in the 19th century that the villages started really growing together already. From the second half of that century the buildings strongly densified and in 1880 along the Murmerlaan (later named the Haadwei) the first tram track of Friesland was opened, a horse track. The municipality decided to move the town hall to Murmerwoude. Up until 1881 this was located in the village of Rinsumageast. The move was a bit surprising considering the fact that Murmerwoude was the smallest of the three villages and Dantumawoude which th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Falom
De Falom ( nl, De Valom) is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of 235 in 2017. History The Falom originated along the Falomster Feart, which was dug in the 16th century. The canal was built for the exploitation of the peat area in which it was located. Along the canal, habitation gradually developed and so a hamlet developed. In 1664 the hamlet was mentioned as ''Vall-om'', in 1718 as ''De Vallom'' and in 1786 as ''de Valom''. The place name could probably refer to a dilapidated house or building. De Tegenwoordige Staat van Friesland described the hamlet at the end of the 18th century as a neighborhood with more than 20 houses. It reports that in the past a lot of peat was dug here. But by then this industry has been completely disappeared for many years, and has made way for buckwheat and rye. Up until 1974 it was hamlet with northern part falling under the village of Murmerwoude and the southern part under the then called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Westereen
De Westereen ( fry, De Westerein or ''De Westereen''), nl, Zwaagwesteinde) is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 5,000 in 2017. History De Westereen lays on the edge of the clay ridge of Kollum, Kollumerzwaag. The place name refers to the fact it lays on the western end of it, on the edge of lower-lying peat area. In 1503 the place was mentioned as ''Westereynde'', in 1511 as ''Op eijnd, Swaga west eijnd'', in 1573 as ''Westen Eijnde'', in 1718 as ''Swaagwesterend'' and in 1786 as ''Zwaag-Westeinde''. Zwaag refers to the land where cattle were kept, the pasture. In the 18th century the village grew on the northern side on the peatland, which was cultivated at that time. Most dwellings of this extension were heather and turf huts. The number of the huts grew quickly beyond the number of the already existing small forest farms the on Foarstrjitte that where there when they started the cultivation of the peatland. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feanwâlden
Feanwâlden ( nl, Veenwouden) is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 3,430 in 2014. Together with the village of Feanwâldsterwâl Feanwâldsterwâl ( nl, Veenwoudsterwal) is a village in the Dantumadiel and Tytsjerksteradiel municipality's of Friesland, the Netherlands. it had a population of around 420 in 2021, however Feanwâldsterwâl is not a statistical entity, and the ..., a former hamlet of Feanwâlden, it has a village interest association group under the name: ''Vereniging van Dorpsbelangen Veenwouden / Veenwoudsterwal e.o.''. History Feanwâlden originated from two small villages, Sint-Johanneswâld and Eslawâld. The first was near the Skierstins while the second place was a mile further southwest. Sint-Johanneswâld was mentioned in 1439 as ''Sunte Johannis walde'' and 1450 as ''Sunte Johanneswald''. Eslawâld was mentioned in 1450 as ''Essalawald''. In 1421 there is also mention of ''Lillingwald'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broeksterwâld
Broeksterwâld ( nl, Broeksterwoude) is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, in the Netherlands. In 2017, it had a population of around 1,100. History The area in which Broeksterwâld arose was mentioned in 1452/3 as ''Broe(c)k'' and in 1580 as ''Broeick''. It was a swampy peatland A mire, peatland, or quagmire is a wetland area dominated by living peat-forming plants. Mires arise because of incomplete decomposition of organic matter, usually litter from vegetation, due to water-logging and subsequent anoxia. All types ... near the edge of the Dokkumer Wouden, Dokkumer woods. It was then a mainly uninhabited and uncultivated area around the villages Akkerwoude, Murmerwoude and Dantumawoude. The first mention of the peatland refers to the making (and the maintenance) of a road through the peatland from ''Broek'' to the ''Swatte''. Probably for the first reclamation of the peatland. The road later became the Schwartzenberglaan, Singel and de Goddeloze S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wâlterswâld
Wâlterswâld ( nl, Wouterswoude) is a village in Dantumadiel municipality, Friesland, the Netherlands. The village had a population of approximately 920 in 2017. The village as two residential centers, a northern and southern center. The southern center forms a unit with the residential center of the village Driezum. Therefore together with Driezum it forms the twin village of Driezum-Wâlterswâld. The two villages have many common associations and a common village community centre, called De Nije Warf and which is located in Wâlterswâld. History The place was probably founded on the artificial dwelling mound, an so called terp called ''Walthiem'' and which was located southeast of Dokkum and north of the modern village of Wâlterswâld. The modern village of Wâlterswâld may be an slowly relocation from the actual terp site to the peat swamp area south of it that was called ''Walters halen'' in 1402.Gildemacher, Karel F. (2007). Friese plaatsnamen: alle steden, dorpen en ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibrandahûs
Sibrandahûs ( nl, Sijbrandahuis) is a small village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 40 in 2017. It is located just west of Dokkum. Sibrandahûs has no real residential core, the village consists of wide meadows with light habitation and a church placed in a tree seam. The village could also be called a hamlet, but because it has a church and it is the official residential center it is considered a village. On the corner of the Trekwei and the Burdaarderstrjitwei stands the windmill called Windmotor Sijbrandahuis. History The village originates from on an artificial dwelling mound, a so called terp. The church of the light inhabited terp was built around 1300 nearby on very low laying land. This was possible in that period because Friesland had become more diked. It was long thought that the church without a tower was a chapel range of a monastery Klaarkamp. This abbey monastery was located west of Sibrandahûs and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Readtsjerk
Readtsjerk ( nl, Roodkerk) is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 185 in 2017. The village consists of a few small and sparsely populated neighborhoods and has no real residential center. Together with the almost similar village Mûnein it forms a kind of twin village, under the name '' Mûnein-Readtsjerk ''. North to northeast of the village lies a restored windmill called De Hoop. History Probably at the beginning of the 12th century, a church was built on the edge of the Trynwâlden, a sand ridge. This church, called the Readtsjerkje, was a towerless church built of tuff Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock .... These had a red colour and that is probably the reason of the place name is named after t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friesland
Friesland (, ; official fry, Fryslân ), historically and traditionally known as Frisia, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part. It is situated west of Groningen, northwest of Drenthe and Overijssel, north of Flevoland, northeast of North Holland, and south of the Wadden Sea. As of January 2020, the province had a population of 649,944 and a total area of . The province is divided into 18 municipalities. The capital and seat of the provincial government is the city of Leeuwarden (West Frisian: ''Ljouwert'', Liwwaddes: ''Liwwadde''), a city with 123,107 inhabitants. Other large municipalities in Friesland are Sneek (pop. 33,512), Heerenveen (pop. 50,257), and Smallingerland (includes city of Drachten, pop. 55,938). Since 2017, Arno Brok is the King's Commissioner in the province. A coalition of the Christian Democratic Appeal, the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, the Labour Party, and the Frisian National Party forms the exec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
