Dongjum
Encyclopedia
Dongjum is a small village in Franekeradeel
in the province Friesland
of the Netherlands
and has around the 300 citizens (2004).
s, on an old bank of a watercourse. The area needs as demonstrated by archaeological research already in Roman times
have been occupied. From pottery excavated at the time that the residents were quite wealthy. From the end of the Roman Empire until the 5th century the area was uninhabited for all thoughts.
Goslinga State built where later grietman
and statesman Sicco van Goslinga
lived who died in 1731. The stins was demolished in 1803. In the church of Dongjum (1777) is a mausoleum of Sicco van Goslinga.
Boer
, has Dongjum Since April 1969 the Association Village Importance Dongjum / Boer. The association maintain contacts with the municipality, housing association and social work. Dongjum have a public primary school called "De Twirre" Beside the school stands the villagehouse built in 2007 called De Boppeslach.
Franekeradeel
Franekeradeel is a municipality in the northern Netherlands. It was created in 1984 by combining an earlier Franekeradeel municipality with the city of Franeker and parts of the former municipality of Barradeel...
in the province Friesland
Friesland
Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...
of the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
and has around the 300 citizens (2004).
History
Dongjum consists of a group Artificial dwelling hillArtificial dwelling hill
An artificial dwelling hill is a mound, created to provide safe ground during high tide and river floods....
s, on an old bank of a watercourse. The area needs as demonstrated by archaeological research already in Roman times
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
have been occupied. From pottery excavated at the time that the residents were quite wealthy. From the end of the Roman Empire until the 5th century the area was uninhabited for all thoughts.
Goslinga State
In the early 17th century was the stinsStins
A stins is a former stronghold or villa in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. Many stinsen carry the name "state."...
Goslinga State built where later grietman
Grietman
A grietman is partly a forerunner of the current rural mayor in the province of Friesland, and partly the forerunner of a judge. The area of jurisdiction was the municipality or gemeente...
and statesman Sicco van Goslinga
Sicco van Goslinga
Sicco van Goslinga was a Dutch statesman and diplomat, who served as gedeputeerde te velde of the States-General of the Dutch Republic with John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough during his campaigns in Flanders in the War of the Spanish Succession...
lived who died in 1731. The stins was demolished in 1803. In the church of Dongjum (1777) is a mausoleum of Sicco van Goslinga.
Community
Together with the nearby HamletHamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
Boer
Boer
Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State,...
, has Dongjum Since April 1969 the Association Village Importance Dongjum / Boer. The association maintain contacts with the municipality, housing association and social work. Dongjum have a public primary school called "De Twirre" Beside the school stands the villagehouse built in 2007 called De Boppeslach.
Population
- 1954 - 358
- 1959 - 358
- 1964 - 325
- 1969 - 352
- 1974 - 423
- 2004 - 362