Sibrandahûs ( nl, Sijbrandahuis) is a small 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

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, the

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. It had a population of around 40 in 2017. It is located just west of

Dokkum Dokkum is a Dutch fortified city in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân in the province of Friesland. It has 12,669 inhabitants (February 8, 2020). The fortifications of Dokkum are well preserved and are known as the ''bolwerken'' (bulwarks). ...

. Sibrandahûs has no real residential core, the village consists of wide meadows with light habitation and a church placed in a tree seam. The village could also be called a hamlet, but because it has a church and it is the official residential center it is considered a village. On the corner of the Trekwei and the Burdaarderstrjitwei stands the

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called Windmotor Sijbrandahuis.

History

The village originates from on an artificial dwelling mound, a so called

terp 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 ...

. The church of the light inhabited terp was built around 1300 nearby on very low laying land. This was possible in that period because Friesland had become more diked. It was long thought that the church without a tower was a chapel range of a monastery Klaarkamp. This abbey monastery was located west of Sibrandahûs and the Klaaskampster Lake was also nearby. The lake was later reclaimed. However, it is more likely that the church was built by order of the inhabitants of the terp. At the time there was a fortified house on the mound, called Sterkenburg of the Tjaarda family, a prominent family from

Rinsumageast Rinsumageast ( nl, Rinsumageest) is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 965 in 2017. The village is locally called ''De Geest'' (Dutch) or ''De Geast''Gildemacher, Karel F. (2007). ...

. The important branch Tjarda van Starkenborgh was later created from that family through a marriage. The fortified house was demolished in the 19th century and replaced by a farm. This stelp farm dates from 1868 and bears the name 'Starkenborgh'. The village itself is first mentioned in 1491 as ''Sibrandahuys''.Gildemacher, Karel F. (2007). Friese plaatsnamen: alle steden, dorpen en gehuchten. Leeuwarden, Friese Pers/Noordboek (in Dutch) In 1511 it is mentioned as ''Sybrandahuys'', in 1543 as ''Sybrandahuysum'', in 1573 as ''Sybrandehuysum'' and in 1786 as ''Sibrandahuis'' and ''Sibrenhuws''. In the 19th century it is cited that the Old Frisian variant was ''Sibrenhuws''. In modern West Frisian it is Sibrandahûs. The Dutch name ''Sijbrandahuis'' was the official name until 2009. That spelling was used as the standard name from the 19th century, with the variant sometimes ''Sibrandahuis''. 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 Sibrandahûs was from 2009 the official name for the village.

References

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