Vrouwenparochie ( fry, Froubuorren;

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: ''Froubuurt'') is a village in

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municipality in the province of

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, the

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, with a population of around 685 in 2021. It is called ''Froubuurt'' in the dialect of Het Bildt. There is a restored

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in the village, De Vrouwbuurstermolen.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1570 Kijfhueck, parochie o.l. frovwen, and means "parish of Our Sweet Lady (=

Mary, mother of Jesus Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...

)" who was the protector of the village. In the early days, the village was known as Kijfhoek, after the

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village of the earliest settlers. 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. The same year, the middelweg was built as an east-west connection through the new land of

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. Vrouwenparochie developed along the road (nowadays: ) as a

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. The Dutch Reformed church was built in 1670 as a replacement of the early 16th century church. The

grist mill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the Mill (grinding), grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist i ...

De Vrouwbuurstermolen is a wind mill which was built before 1832. It was decommissioned in 1954. It was restored between 1963 and 1967, and is regularly in use. Vrouwenparochie was home to 1,202 people in 1840. There was a railway station in the village between 1902 and 1940. The building burned down in 1999, and was demolished in 2002. Before 2018, the village was part of

municipality.

Notable people

* Johan Bouma (born 1940), soil scientist

Gallery

File:Froubuorren, Waling Dykstrastrjitte 9.jpg, House in Vrouwenparochie File:Voorzijde - Vrouwenparochie - 20247720 - RCE.jpg, House in winter (1971) File:Froubuorren, J.P. van der Bildtstrjitte 8.jpg, House in Vrouwenparochie File:20191023 Vrouwbuurstermolen1.jpg, Vrouwbuurstermolen

References

External links

* {{Authority control Waadhoeke Populated places in Friesland