Obergum is part of the town
Winsum
Winsum () is a town and a former Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the northeastern Netherlands. On 1 January 2019 the municipality merged with the municipalities of Bedum, De Marne and Eemsmond to form the new municipality Het H ...
(
Groningen,
Netherlands
)
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, subdivision_type = Sovereign state
, subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands
, established_title = Before independence
, established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
) that lies north of the
Winsumerdiep. Originally it was a separate village. Winsum and Obergum have been connected since 1808 by the bridge ''De Boog'' (The Arch).
The village is built around a
wierde
A ''terp'', also known as a ''wierde, woerd, warf, warft, werf, werve, wurt'' or ''værft'', is an artificial dwelling mound found on the North European Plain that has been created to provide safe ground during storm surges, high tides an ...
(hill) on which a 13th-century
Romanesque church stands, called the St. Nicholas Chapel.
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Populated places in Groningen (province)
Het Hogeland