Kortehemmen ( fry, Koartehimmen) is a village in
Smallingerland
Smallingerland (; fy, ) is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands.
Population centres
Boornbergum, De Tike, De Veenhoop, De Wilgen, Drachten (main town), Drachtstercompagnie, Goëngahuizen, Houtigehage, Kortehemmen ...
municipality in the province of
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 ...
, the
Netherlands
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. It had a population of around 258 in January 2017.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1444 as Korteham, and means "short silted land near a stream".
Korteham developed on a sandy ridge along the river with Kortehemmen on one side and
Zuider Drachten (nowadays part of
Drachten
Drachten () is a town in the northern Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Smallingerland, Friesland. It had a population of around 45,186 in January 2017 and is the second largest town in the province of Friesland.
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) on the other. Around 1300, a church was built in the village. No tower was built and a belfry was added instead.
The current belfry dates from 1950.
Kortehemmen was home to 127 people in 1840.
In 1939, a conference centre was opened in the village by the . Kortehemmen was physically cut off from Drachten by the construction of the
A7 motorway.
Gallery
File:Oude Boerderij nr.8 Kortehemmen.JPG, Farm in Kortehemmen
File:Klein Boerderijtje Kortehemmen.JPG, Farm in Kortehemmen
References
External links
Populated places in Friesland
Smallingerland
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