Heeg is a small village in Súdwest Fryslân

Súdwest Fryslân

Súdwest-Fryslân is a municipality in the northern Netherlands, in the province of Friesland. Sneek is the capital city of the municipality.It was formed in 2011 from the old municipalities of Bolsward, Nijefurd, Sneek, Wûnseradiel and Wymbritseradiel....

 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 2550 citizens (2007).

History

Because of its location on the Hegemer lake eel fishery and trade have been important to Heeg for a long time. Until 1938 eels from Heeg were exported to London. The Hegemers could thereby free use of the Dutch Mooring (Dutch landing) at the Thames, not far from the Tower of London

Tower of London

Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space...

. The trade was so important to the village that there was a time that the children from Heeg at primary school al learned English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 (but apparently not very good English, judging on the (original) English used in this article).
Nowadays Heeg is a known water sports center with a variety of marinas and shipyards. This is the shipyard for flat bottoms Piersma the most famous ???. This shipyard was taken into use more than 300 years ago. In the center of the village are a few buildings from the 18th century including the Dutch Reformed Church

Dutch Reformed Church

The Dutch Reformed Church was a Reformed Christian denomination in the Netherlands. It existed from the 1570s to 2004, the year it merged with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the...

 from 1745.

Population

• 1954 - 2481
• 1959 - 2441
• 1964 - 2484
• 1969 - 1471
• 1973 - 1494
• 2006 - 2241