Het Bildt

Het Bildt ( listen? / I ) is a municipality of the province of Friesland (Netherlands). It has 10,652 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).

Language

In Het Bildt Bildt is spoken, a Dutch dialect with Frisian influences. In Minnertsga that belongs only since 1984 this church, but the Frisian language is spoken.

Location and economic

Het Bildt is located about 15 km north- west of the provincial capital of Leeuwarden and north of Franeker, and is bounded on the north of the Wadden Sea coast. Car and railways do not exist in the community. A Schnellbusdienst runs between Leeuwarden and St. Annaparochie.

Het Bildt is the " Bouwhoek ", the " farming area " Friesland. Famous are the locally grown potatoes, including the named after the town of race Bildtstar. Increasingly, settle, especially in St Annaparochie, commuters who work in the city of Leeuwarden. In St. Annaparochie there is also an industrial park with several small businesses.

Places

  • Sint Annaparochie: (Name on Bildt: Sint- Anne). Sint Annaparochie is the administrative seat. In this approximately 5000 inhabitants village also several schools, shops, etc., see The village has a octagonal church, which was built in 1682. In 1634, the famous painter Rembrandt van Rijn married in this village Saskia van Uylenburgh. A modern monument in the village is reminiscent of this marriage.

The other places in the municipality are:

  • Minnertsga ( Minnertsgea ): with about 1850 inhabitants; the village is on a mound ( Frisian: terp ) emerged. It has a medieval, provided in the 16th century with a new tower, village church.
  • Sint Jacobiparochie (Sint - Jabik ): with about 1800 inhabitants
  • Vrouwenparochie ( Froubuurt ) with about 750 inhabitants; in the village is a featured built in 1670 church.
  • Oudebildtzijl ( Ouwe - Syl ): with a population of about 1000; the location along a dike village had formerly a small port; the old lock on Siel ( zijl ) ) will be restored shortly.
  • Nij Altoenna: 725 inhabitants
  • Westhoek ( Westhoek ) with about 275 inhabitants
  • Small hamlet in the parish are Nieuwebildtzijl ( Nije - Syl ), Vrouwbuurtstermolen and Zwarte Haan

History

In 1505 the sea arm of the Wadden Sea, Middle Sea was called polders in part. Along the 14 km long dike soon arose Oudebildtzijl. Since the dike builders and colonists no Friesen, but Dutch were, many of them Catholics from around Dordrecht, was a secreted, a Dutch dialect -speaking community. In the early 17th century, a new polder to Nieuwebildtzijl was created. The ending zijl means " sewer ".

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Waling Dykstra (* 1821 in Vrouwenparochie, † 1914), Frisian poet
  • Jan de Vries ( born 1944 in Sint Jacobiparochie ), Dutch motorcycle racer
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