Burum (Netherlands)
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 Fryslân
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| Residents | 595 (January 31, 2019) |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 16 ' N , 6 ° 14' E |
| Important traffic route |
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| prefix | 0595 |
| Postcodes | 9851 |
| Website | Burum website |
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Burum ( Frisian : Boerum ) is a village in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân in the Dutch province of Friesland on the eastern border of West Friesland . The town center is north of Provinciale Weg 355 (see N355 ). In 2019 the place had almost 600 inhabitants. The village includes the peasantry De Keegen and Scharnehuizen and the lands of the Cistercian convent Galilea .
With the Burumervaart , also called Schipsloot , there is an old water connection to the Lauwers to the south . In 2006 a new connection to the Olde Lauwers was established to the east, which leads to the nearby new marina called De Dwinger .
history
The village was built on a hill ( Terp ), which was built on a Schorrenwall in the early Middle Ages . In the early 14th century, Burum and the surrounding country were dyed . The village is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1408 as "Burum". The deed states that the village had sold its church to the monastery in the neighboring village of Gerkesklooster . The monastery had a say in the village as it appointed village judges and leased or built farms necessary for cultivating the fields. It was not until the Reformation that this influence was pushed back.
The place name was listed in records as "Bwrum" and in 1664 as "Buerum" at the end of the 16th century. The name is the dative plural of the word 'Buur' (Dutch for 'neighbor'), which can also refer to a small house or apartment. The place name could therefore be interpreted as a 'settlement of houses'. The Cistercian monastery Galilea was located a little south of Burum between the 13th and 16th centuries . At the beginning of the 20th century, a farm was built at this point on Friesestraatweg 1–3. The village developed around the oldest church at Uithof and along the Herestraat, which was the main thoroughfare from south to north.
At the beginning of Kloosterweg is the former three-class school ( gang type ) from 1921.
Before Burum in 2019 Gemeente Noardeast-Friesland opened, it was one of de Kollumerland Nieuwkruisland .
Churches
The village has two churches:
Hervormde Kerk
The oldest church in the village is the church building of the Dutch Reformed Church . It was built in 1784 on the site of a previous medieval building. Be in the church a pulpit from the 18th century with carved caryatids , twisted columns Ionic order , a "Tauftor" from the year 1630 and nine pews later asked families of the 17th and 18th centuries as well as a number of grave stones from the 17 Century, three copper chandeliers from the 18th century and an organ by Petrus van Oeckelen from 1876.
In the tower of the church there is a belfry with a bell, cast in 1756 by the Steen en Borchardt bell foundry, and a mechanical clockwork manufactured in 1913 by the Eijsbouts bell foundry . Opposite the church is the rectory, built in 1878 in the style of eclecticism .
Reform earth church
The reformed church in the village dates from around 1895 and is a simple hall church . The village's Reformed parish is older, however; it was founded personally by Hendrik de Cock in 1835 as the first of the Reformed parishes in the Netherlands.
It Grutte Ear ground station
In the north-west of Burum is the satellite ground station It Grutte Ear (official name: Satellietgrondstation 12 ) for the satellite communications of the English telecommunications provider Inmarsat (previously Stratos and Xantic ). The JSCU interception station , the successor to the NSO established as a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , is also located on the premises . However, the continued existence of the listening station is uncertain due to the frequency occupancy it uses at the expense of the planned 5G network.
It Grutte Ear satellite ground station
The NSO ground station (2012)
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Mills
A mill was mentioned in Burum as early as 1694. Today the converted grain and peeling mill Windlust from 1787 stands on this site. On April 8, 2012, the structure, which was only restored in 2000, burned down completely and was rebuilt in 2014.
The Windlust Mill 2009
After the reconstruction in 2015
Sports
The village does not have its own football club, but in Warfstermolen there is SV de Lauwers , which also includes the football club VV de Lauwers . The club plays its home games in the t Meertenust sports complex in the hamlet of Halfweg .
In addition, the village has the water sports club WV Burum , the volleyball club DES, the gymnastics association DES, the ice sports club Burum and the billiards club De Klos .
Culture
Burum has its own village community center called de Toutenburg . There is a Christian wind orchestra ("Advendo") and a shanty choir in the village.
education
The Christian primary school Op de Hoogte is located near the town center.
Personalities
One of the most famous people from Burum is the athlete Foekje Dillema , who beat the top Dutch athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen in the 200-meter run , who had dominated this distance up to then. Because she refused to take a test for her gender assignment, she was excluded from further sporting competitions. A later examination showed intersex features ( hyperandrogenemia ). In Leeuwarden (previously in Oranjewoud ) there is a sculpture in her honor that is supposed to represent her legs in a stylized form. In 2014, an unadorned wayside shrine with a green lotus flower was erected in her memory in Burum .
Another famous citizen was Frans Tutuhatunewa . From 1993 to 2010 he was President-in-Exile of the Republic of Maluku Selatan (RMS). He previously worked as a general practitioner in Burum from 1964 to 1981.
Born in Burum
- Bernard Accama (1697–1756), painter
- Jan Hoekstra (1910–1982), CHU politician and mayor
- Foekje Dillema (1926-2007), athlete
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kabinet: verplaatsing grondstation Burum noodzaak voor optimal 5G network communication from the Dutch government (Rijksoverheid) dated December 24, 2018
- ↑ Molen door brand Verwoest report on the fire on the website of NOS , published 9 April 2012
- ↑ Video of the fire and information about the rebuilding of the Windlust mill, published on the Omrop Fryslân website on October 6, 2014