Ringdorf
A ring village is a type of village in which the buildings are built around a central point. Often this was a church ( Dutch Kerkringdorp - Kirchen-Ringdorf) with a round or oval churchyard. Ring villages were laid out all over Central Europe, for example:
- Borstel (now part of the district town of Stendal in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt )
- Emetzheim (today a district of Weißenburg in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen )
- Gaberndorf (today a district of Weimar in Thuringia )
- Hachum in Lower Saxony
- Kolut (Küllőd) ( Sombor municipality ) in Serbia .
The term Ringdorf has different variants. In Zeeland or South Holland ( Netherlands ) there are many ring villages still largely preserved or recognizable in their original structure.
The ditch around the churchyard that originally existed in many Dutch villages is now almost everywhere invisible or barely visible, only in Dreischor , Noordgouwe , Dirksland and Nieuwe-Tonge this ditch is still recognizable.
Most of the ring villages emerged in the Netherlands at the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century.
Examples of such ring villages in the Netherlands
Zeeland region
- Biggekerke
- Three choir
- Grijpskerke
- Haamstede
- 's army Hendrikskinderen
- 's-Heer Abtskerke
- 's-Heer Arendskerke
- chapel
- Dungeons
- Koudekerke
- Kloetinge
- Nieuwerkerk
- Noordgouwe
- North wave
- Oud sabbings
- Ouwerkerk
- Poortvliet
- Renesse
- Serooskerke
South Holland region
Region of Zeeuws Vlaanderen
- Cadzand (formerly: Cadesant).
