Zuidhorn

( Listen? / I ) zuidhorn is a Dutch municipality in the province of Groningen, with 18,700 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013) on an area of 128 km ².

Since the 1960s, there are more and more people who move from the city of Groningen to Zuidhorn because you can still reach the city. There are two railway stations ( Zuidhorn and Grijpskerk ) on the route Groningen- Leeuwarden and also many bus routes between the villages and Groningen.

The Reitdiep is a natural boundary of the parish. The river was once an important link between Groningen and the Wadden Sea. As the strait has been disconnected at the mouth of the river from the sea, finished to the shipping of goods on Reitdiep. Now there are almost only tourist traffic.

In the town there are many small picturesque villages. Many villages consist merely of a few farms and a church.

Pictures

Zuidhorn, Reformed Church

Oldehove, mill: Korenmolen Aeolus

Oldehove, Church: de Ludgeruskerk

Grijpskerk, Müihle: moles de Kievit

Saaksum, Reformed Church

Visvliet, Church: de Gangulfuskerk

Curiosities

In the 1980s and 1990s, the farmer Albert Harkema built north of the village Aduard on his farm a Groninger Warftkirche in miniature (about 12 × 5 m). When it was completed after 13 years of construction threatened the community Zuidhorn with the demolition of the building, as Harkema had no planning permission. However, after more and more spectators and tourists the yard Harkemas and Zuidhoorn sought out, the community, however, subsequently granted a permit as a stable building. Today, the private church is open to visitors, Harkema farmer had sold the farm and built to a tea house to a family of farmers in the late 1990s.