Readtsjerk ( nl, Roodkerk
) is a village in the
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 12 ...
municipality 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 ...
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. 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
Mûnein ( nl, Molenend) is a village in Tytsjerksteradiel municipality in the province Friesland of the Netherlands. It had a population of around 580 in 2018.windmill
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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
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These had a red colour and that is probably the reason of the place name is named after the red coulerd church. In 1421 the place was mentioned as ''Rada tzerka'', 'rada' in Old Frisian denotes the colour red and 'tzerka' church.
[Gildemacher, Karel F. (2007). Friese plaatsnamen: alle steden, dorpen en gehuchten. Leeuwarden, Friese Pers/Noordboek (in Dutch)] In 1499 it was mentioned as ''rada tzercka'', in 1508 as ''radetzercka'', in 1511 as ''Rodekercke'', ''Rodenkercke'' and ''Rodertzercka''.
By the time it was called ''Roodkerck'' in 1664, the small residential center of the village had come to lie around the Siccama State, northwest of the church.
This stately home was first mentioned at the end of the 15th century. The state itself was demolished around 1860.
Even further northwest there was the hamlet of ''(De) Weerburen'' and the subsequent neighborhoods Healbird and Syewier,
the latter from around the De Seijewier farm on banks of the water De Moark. Healbird was a country house. Until the beginning of the 20th century ''De Weerburen'' was still seen as its own hamlet. But because the village of Readtsjerk itself consists of several separate little neighborhoods, which also increased little bit in the 20th century, it was eventually seen as part of the village itself.
From 1786 the Dutch spelling Roodkerk was used quite standard,
until 2009 it was also the official name of the village. In modern West Frisian it is Readtsjerk. In 2008 the municipality Dantumadiel decided that it was going the replace all the official Dutch names within the municipality with the West Frisian names,
meaning that Readtsjerk was from 2009 the official name for the village.
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Populated places in Friesland
Dantumadiel