Leens

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Leens
Flag of Leens
flag 		Coat of arms of the village of Leens
coat of arms
province Groningen Groningen
local community Flag of the municipality of Het Hogeland Het Hogeland
Area
 - land
 - water 		35.58  km 2
34.84 km 2
0.74 km 2
Residents 2,040 (Jan 1, 2017)
Coordinates 53 ° 22 '  N , 6 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 22 '  N , 6 ° 23'  E
Important traffic route N361
prefix 0595
Postcodes 9964-9966, 9971, 9973, 9977
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Leens ( listen ? / I ) ( Gronings Lains ) is a village in the municipality of Het Hogeland ( province of Groningen ) in the northeast of the Netherlands . The village has 2,040 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). Audio file / audio sample

Until January 1, 2019, Leens was the main town in the municipality of De Marne , when it merged with Bedum, Eemsmond and Winsum to form the municipality of Het Hogeland.

middle Ages

Geologically, Leens is located on Hochschorren , which were formed up to the 9th century and formed the broad area of ​​today's Hogeland . Several wierden were built in a row on the highest Schorren to shield the houses and fields from the flood. Leens lies in the middle of such a row of wierden, which begins at Wehe-den Hoorn and ends beyond Vierhuizen, although some of the old terps have sunk in the Lauwersmeer . Two well-known wierden are the Tuinsterwierde in the east and the settlement area De Houw in the west . In the nearby hinterland is the De Ewer Wierde .

The Catholic parish of Leens was probably founded around 800 by Saint Liudger , the so-called 'Apostle of the Groningers', or one of his successors. The church served as the center of the deanery and later the entire deanery of De Marne. The Humsterland (the area around Oldehove ) could initially have belonged to this, but was later separated by the Lauwerzee system, which penetrated and enlarged by storm surges. The villages that make up De Marne today formed the Frisian Gau Hunsingo . The name Leens does not appear in the old monastery books. The oldest mention appeared in 1224 and is called Lindenge or later Lydenze (1381), each of which means 'inhabitant of a watercourse' ( lida ). It is not known which watercourse was meant.

The church, consecrated to the Apostle Peter , was built on a flat, rectangular wierde on the border between the two Wierdendörfer Tuinsterwierde and De Houw . These villages were mentioned towards the end of the 10th century. The area covered by the parish extended from the Wadden coast to the banks of the later Reitdiep . The places Kloosterburen , Hornhuizen , Vliedorp and Zuurdijk were probably daughter parishes. In Grijssloot probably a chapel of a peasant was Vorwerk . The Deanery von Leens was very extensive. When the Spanish-occupied Groningen became Dutch again in 1594 , many Leens parishes were also added to the now liberated city.

The oldest parts of today's Petruskirche date from the beginning of the 12th century.

The systematic dike and drainage of the scorches and salt marshes began around the 11th century.

Modern times

After the parish was downsized in 1594, Leens remained one of the places with a small Catholic minority. The Petruskerk was taken over by the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (later Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk ). The Catholics had to move to a slip church ( Schuilkerk ), which were set up in farms. In the 19th century the Catholics came to the parish in Wehe-den Hoorn .

In the 17th and 18th centuries, life in the village was dominated by the noble landowning families Tjarda van Starkenborgh, who owned the Verhildersum estate for a long time, and a branch line of Innhausen and Knyphausen which resided in Asingaborg (near Ulrum). The peasantry had to follow the instructions of their masters. The movement of the Patriots , which later broke this power of the landed gentry, had a large following in Leens.

The separation of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1834, operated by Pastor Hendrik de Cock from Ulrum, received many supporters in Leens. A considerable number of the members followed in his footsteps and switched to Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerk in the summer of 1835 .

In the 20th century, Leens was connected to the railway network, but this was short-lived. The Spoorlijn Winsum - Zoutkamp , or Marnelijn for short , was opened on April 1, 1922 and closed again on November 24, 1940 because the German occupiers needed the facilities for the war on the Eastern Front . Today the Provinciale Weg 361 (N361) is on the route . The station building still exists and houses a small police station in addition to apartments.

Reorganization of the parish

Before 1990, Leens was an independent municipality which, in addition to the main town Leens, consisted of the neighboring villages and residential areas Douwen, Ewer, Grijssloot, Groot Maarslag, Kattenburg, Klein Maarslag, Mensingeweer, Roodehaan, Schouwen, 't Stort, Warfhuizen , Wehe-den Hoorn and Zuurdijk duration. The parish hall at that time was in Wehe-den Hoorn. In 1990 the towns were merged with Ulrum, Eenrum and Kloosterburen to form the Ulrum municipality and the administration was installed in Leens . Two years later, they gave this merger, based on the name of the country part Marne Old Frisian Gaus Hunsingo , the name "De Marne".

Current

In May 2009 the De Marne municipal assembly decided on a large-scale renovation of the town center. A shopping center and a block of nursing homes were completed in April 2013. This redesign is intended to make Leens more attractive as a place to live and to strengthen its role as a central location in De Marne municipality. The new old people's home was inaugurated a month later and replaces a previous facility in Ulrum .

leisure

  • The European long-distance hiking trail E9 runs through Leens , at this point also known as the 'North Sea Trail of the Wadden and Terrain Path ' (Dutch “Wad- en Wierdenpad”).
  • In Leens there is the DoeZoo Insektenwereld , an animal park with a focus on insects .
  • To the south is the Leenstertillen nature reserve (with a campsite).
  • Leens also has an outdoor and fun pool.

Culture

  • In the summer months, well-known organists give public concerts on the Hinsz organ of the Petruskirche.
  • The Verhildersum estate with the bronze sculptures by the artist Eddy Roos distributed in the large garden .
  • Adjacent to the Verhildersum estate is the Welobile Museum Farm .

Personalities of the place

In Leens u. a. born and / or lived:

  • Willem ten Berge (1903–1969), missionary and poet
  • Flip Buurmeijer (1940), politician of the PvdA
  • CO Jellema (1936-2003), poet
  • Ede Staal (1941–1986), dialect singer and poet
  • Hendrik Werkman (1882–1945), artist

gallery

  • Entrance to the Westerhofstraat, where there is a church and a parish (2010)

  • Reformed community (medieval, renovations in 1540 and 1764) (2010)

  • Reformed St. Andrew's Church (1912, the organ from 1840) (2010)

  • The former train station building (today a police station) (2012)

  • Welglich Museum Farm (2012)

literature

  • Formsma .. WJ et.al. (red.) Historie van Groningen Stad en Land, Groningen 1976, pp. 49, 56, 64, 127, 148, 150, 385, 393, 447, 448, etc. v. a., ISBN 90-6243-002-3
  • Mollema, W. & J. Bulthuis (1982), Gemeente Leens: een blik in het verleden . Leens: Mollema. 72 p. (Mainly illustrations)

Web links

Commons : Leens  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on June 27, 2018 (Dutch)