Jacobuskerk Feerwerd
Rustpunt Jacobuskerk is located in the middle of the characteristic mound village of Feerwerd. The 13th-century church and its surrounding grounds are owned by the Stichting Oude Groninger Kerken and managed by a local committee of volunteers.
The interior of the church dates predominantly from the 19th century. However, some considerably older elements are also present including 16th- and 17th-century tombstones and a 17th-century pulpit.
For quite a few years, the committee that manages the church has organised a series of winter concerts there on Sunday afternoons in winter. The church can also be rented for concerts, rehearsals or, for example, as a wedding location (see www.kerkfeerwerd.nl). Once a year, on Good Friday, the church is still in use as a church.
The area around Feerwerd, Middag-Humsterland, stands as a...
The interior of the church dates predominantly from the 19th century. However, some considerably older elements are also present including 16th- and 17th-century tombstones and a 17th-century pulpit.
For quite a few years, the committee that manages the church has organised a series of winter concerts there on Sunday afternoons in winter. The church can also be rented for concerts, rehearsals or, for example, as a wedding location (see www.kerkfeerwerd.nl). Once a year, on Good Friday, the church is still in use as a church.
The area around Feerwerd, Middag-Humsterland, is on UNESCO's World Heritage List as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cultural landscapes. Originally, this was the area where the Hunze flowed into the Wadden Sea. In the village of Ezinge (2 km west of Feerwerd), Museum Wierdenland offers a very complete picture of the history of this fascinating area and its former inhabitants. The Monastery Museum in Aduard (5 km to the south-west of Feerwerd) shows the contribution the monks of Aduard made to the development of the area by, among other things, embanking the islands of Middag and Humsterland in the Middle Ages.
Middag-Humsterland and the Reitdiep catchment area are a paradise for walkers and cyclists. The many small, often already very old winding roads and several new cycle paths lead through a surprisingly varied landscape with irregular parcelling of land and many small differences in height from which the influence of the (sea) water in the area can still be clearly seen. The centuries-old mound villages are scattered in this area like raised islands.
Passers-by are welcome in the church and in the spacious church garden with picnic tables.