Wijckel
Encyclopedia
Wijckel is a small village in Gaasterlân-Sleat
in the province Friesland
of the Netherlands
and has around the 700 citizens (2008).
Speed skater Marrit Leenstra
is from Wijckel.
Gaasterlân-Sleat
Gaasterlân-Sleat is a municipality in the northern Netherlands. Its official name is in West Frisian. The name in Dutch is Gaasterland-Sloten .- Population centres :...
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 700 citizens (2008).
Speed skater Marrit Leenstra
Marrit Leenstra (speed skater)
Marrit Leenstra is a Dutch long track speed skater.In the 2007 season she made her World Cup debut in Moscow ....
is from Wijckel.