Sint Annaparochie ( West Frisian and

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: ''Sint-Anne'') is a village in the municipality of

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. It lies approximately northwest of

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and had approximately 4,830 inhabitants in 2021. The village is named after Saint Anne, the mother of

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History

The village was first mentioned after 1570 as "altoenae, s. annen parochie", and means "parish of Saint Anne". It was originally called Altoenae after the estate near Delft which was the neighbourhood where Dirk Oem van Wijngaarden, one of the first settlers, grew up. In 1504, a deal was struck between

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and four noblemen from

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to '' polder'' the

Middelzee The Middelzee (Dutch for "middle sea"; fry, Middelsee), also called Bordine, was the estuary mouth of the River Boorne (West Frisian: ''Boarn'') now in the Dutch province of Friesland. It ran from as far south as Sneek northward to the Wadden Se ...

. Each group of settlers had to select a patron saint. In 1505, the dike was constructed and the village was created by the reclamation of the Bildt. The village was founded as one of the three settlements where the workers involved in the reclamation of the Bildt lived. Sint Annaparochie turned into a

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at the intersection of the Middelweg with the Noordervaart. The village became the capital of the municipality of

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. Though it is located in the province of Friesland, the principal language spoken in the town is Bildts or

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, not West Frisian. Rembrandt was married in the parish church in St. Annaparochie in 1634. That early church was replaced in 1682 by a church was modelled after the church of

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. Sint Annaparochie was home to 2,421 people in 1840. Beach house Den Bildtpollen was built to the north of Sint Annaparochie in 1899 as residential home and conference centre in

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style. There used to be a station on the

North Friesland Railway The Noord-Friesche Locaalspoorweg-Maatschappij (North Friesland Railway) was a railway serving the sparsely populated north of the Dutch province of Friesland. It was operated by the North Friesland Local Railway Company (Dutch: ''Noord-Friesche Lo ...

which opened in 1902 and closed to passengers in December 1940. Until 2018, the village was part of

municipality.

Gallery

File:Bosch 2.jpg, House in Sint Annaparochie File:Voorgevel - Sint Annaparochie - 20022860 - RCE.jpg, Shops in Sint Annaparochie (1968) File:CSG Ulbe van Houten Sint Annaparochie.jpg, Canteen of the high school File:Statenweg.jpg, House in Sint Annaparochie

References

External links

* {{Authority control Waadhoeke Populated places in Friesland Populated places established in 1505