Eierland

Country Eggs ( hist Eyerland ) is the name of the northern part of the Dutch Wadden island of Texel. It was up to the early 19th century a separate island.

Places

The scenic region characterized eggs country has today three localities:

• De Cocksdorp with about 1260 inhabitants,
• Midden- Country Eggs
• South Country Eggs.

History

By the 13th century eggs country was part of the island of Vlieland and Texel was separated by the Anegat. At the end of the 13th century led storm surges and flow changes mean that eggs country was separated from Vlieland and became an independent island. However, the Anegat began in the 16th century to be closed by sand deposits, so a sandbar emerged, which was flooded only at high storm surges. 1630 then a first dike was built to connect the two islands permanently, before starting the two islands joined permanently in 1835 consuming land reclamation and Eindeichungsarbeiten. The primary objective of this land reclamation was to gain new agricultural land.

Origin of the name

The name Country Eggs probably stems from the fact that gull eggs were collected for the food industry to Amsterdam eggs land on a large scale.

Special

The Georgian uprising in 1945 raged particularly fierce in eggs country and lead to severe damage to local buildings. Among other things, designed by Quirinus Harder Lighthouse eggs country was heavily damaged.

• Texel
• Geography ( North Holland )