Boerderijen Meeden
The village of Meeden was built on a sand ridge on the border between the Veenkoloniën and the Oldambt. The village's location was very favourable: near the canals of the peat colonies and on the Oude Heerweg (from Groningen to Münster).
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That the land was also very useful for both arable farming, cattle breeding and peat extraction meant that Meeden soon grew into a prosperous village. There are a number of large farms on Hereweg in the village. Most are of the Oldambster type, with the front house and the barn under the same roofline in line with each other. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the heyday of Groningen agriculture, the front house of many farms was replaced by an imposing villa. In one of these farms (no. 216), the writer Eduard Douwes Dekker (better known by his pseudonym Multatuli) stayed several times in the period from 1868 to 1882. The owner of the farm at the time was D.R. Mansholt, grandfather of the well-known minister and European agricultural commissioner Sicco Mansholt.