Zeerijp () is a village north of city of
Groningen
Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...
. Its most striking building is its brick
church
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for the 14th century with detached
bell tower
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. Formerly dedicated to
John the Baptist
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, now it is a
Dutch Reformed church
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. Also there is a famous organ inside the church, a Faber organ.
Because there are so few inhabitants, Zeerijp has no shops, but there is a primary school 'De Wilgenstee' and a cafe. Also, there is a famous mill, 'de Leeuw'. There is also a gold and silver smith, Van Hulsen.
Zeerijp's most recently made the headlines when an
earthquake
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struck the village in January 2007. Earthquakes are extremely rare in the Netherlands; this one, measuring 2.3 on the
Richter magnitude scale
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, was a result of drilling for
natural gas
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.
History
The village was first mentioned in the 10th or 11th century Ripon as means "sea
bank
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Because ...
". Zeerijp was located on the former
Fivel estuary which was connected to the sea
It is a dike village which developed into a stretched out settlement.
The
grist mill
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de Leeuw was moved to Zeerijp from in 1865 to replace a 1622 wind mill. It was restored between 1974 and 1977.
Zeerijp was home to 508 people in 1840.
Gallery
File:Zeerijp - café Nastrovje.jpg, Village pub
File:7613.Fivel.Zeerijp.Jacobskerk.DeGroeve.SprikNust.Church.jpg, View on Zeerijp
File:7617 (1).Zeerijp.Kraampje.Pompoen.Verkoop.aanWeg.jpg, Farm in Zeerijp
File:Zeerijp - Borgweg 18.jpg, Villa farm from 1908
References
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Local information
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Populated places in Groningen (province)
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