Heiligerlee (;
Gronings
Gronings (; gos, Grunnegs or Grönnegs), is a collective name for some Friso-Saxon dialects spoken in the province of Groningen and around the Groningen border in Drenthe and Friesland. Gronings and the strongly related varieties in East ...
: ''Kloosterholt'') is a village in the
Dutch
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province of Groningen bordering the town of
Winschoten
Winschoten (; gos, Winschoot) is a city with a population of 18,518 in the municipality of Oldambt in the northeast of the Netherlands. It is the largest city in the region of Oldambt in the province of Groningen which has 38,213 inhabitants. ...
, it is part of the municipality of
Oldambt. It was the site of the
1536 Battle and the
1568 Battle of Heiligerlee
History
From the year 1230 till the year 1594 a
Norbertine
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nunnery (Mons Sinaï) stood in the village, the name of which is currently used as the name of the village Christian primary school.
The
1536 Battle of Heiligerlee was part of the
Guelders Wars
The Guelders Wars (, German: ''Geldrische Erbfolgekriege'') were a series of conflicts in the Low Countries between the Duke of Burgundy, who controlled Holland, Flanders, Brabant, and Hainaut on the one side, and Charles, Duke of Guelders, ...
. The Danish allies of Guelders were defeated by Habsburg forces.
The
1568 Battle of Heiligerlee was the first battle that the
Dutch rebels won against the
Spanish
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. The army led by
Louis Louis may refer to:
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See also
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* Lewis ( ...
and
Adolf of Nassau defeated the Spanish, but politically it was no success. Adolf even died during the fight. It was the first battle of importance fought in the
Eighty Years' War, and therefore often marked as its beginning.
On the 300th anniversary of the battle in 1868 the then ruling king
William III of the Netherlands
William III (Dutch: ''Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk''; English: ''William Alexander Paul Frederick Louis''; 19 February 1817 – 23 November 1890) was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1849 until his death in ...
revealed a monument in commemoration of the battle.
From 1908 to 1934, the
Heiligerlee railway stop on the
Harlingen-Nieuweschans railway was located in the village.
Stopplaats Heiligerlee
(in Dutch), Stationsweb. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
Notable people
* Tjapko van Bergen (1903–1944), rower
Gallery
Image:Monument Battle of Heiligerlee.jpeg, Battle of Heiligerlee monument
File:Heiligerlee - Klokkengieterijmuseum.jpg, Bell museum
File:Museum Slag bij Heiligerlee, Heiligerlee (2017).jpg, Battle of Heiligerlee museum
File:De Hessenbril.jpg, House De Hessenbril
References
External links
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Oldambt (municipality)
Populated places in Groningen (province)