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Marne (estuary)
The Marneslenk (Dutch), or Marneslinke (Frisian), or Marne estuary, was a former estuary in western Friesland south of Harlingen, now reclaimed to be farmland. It formed around the year 300 AD, when rising sea levels also enlarged the Almere lake to the southwest, and formed the Middelzee to the east. The Marneslenk had its mouth on the Vlie and stretched southeasterly to the area of Tirns and then headed east to the Middelzee. Between 1100 and 1300 AD the watercourse was reclaimed and turned into fields by the construction of dykes. One such dyke is the Pingjumer Gulden Halsband. The Bedelaarsvaart (Bidlersfeart) and Harnzerfeartis are what remains of this watercourse nowadays. Pre-history In the Pleistocene the Marneslenk existed as a landscape low oriented to the northwest between the Harlingen High to the north east and the Texel high to the southwest. In the northwest end it broadened out between what is now Vlieland and Terschelling It connected at its southeast extremi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pingjum Met Halsband Schotanus
Pingjum ( fry, Penjum) is a village in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân in Friesland, in the northern Netherlands and lies southwest of Harlingen, Friesland, Harlingen. It had a population of around 585 in January 2017. History The village was first mentioned in the 13th century as Penningem, and means "settlement of Penne (person)". Pingjum is a ''terp'' (artificial living hill) village from the early middle ages which developed on the Marne (estuary), Marneslenk in a grid structure. According to legend, the earliest settlers were shepherds from Drenthe who decided to build the terps and around 1100 added dikes for further protection against the sea. The tower of the Dutch Reformed church was built in the 12th or 13th century and was enlarged in the 15th century. The church dates from around 1500 and was enlarged in 1759. A water well is located next to the choir. In 1524, Menno Simons became priest at the church. Simons started to preach against militarism and was believer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
