Boerderijen Meeden
The village of Meeden is built on a sand ridge on the border between the Veenkoloniën and Oldambt. The village’s location was very favourable: close to the canals of the Veenkoloniën and on the Oude Heerweg (from Groningen to Münster).
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The fact that the land was also highly suitable for arable farming, livestock rearing and peat extraction meant that Meeden quickly grew into a prosperous village. There are a number of large farmhouses on the Hereweg in the village. Most are of the Oldambster type, in which the farmhouse and the barn lie in line with one another under the same roofline. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the heyday of Groningen’s agriculture, the farmhouse of many of these properties was replaced by an imposing villa. The writer Eduard Douwes Dekker (better known by his pseudonym Multatuli) stayed at one of these farmhouses (no. 216) on a number of occasions between 1868 and 1882. The owner of the farm at the time was D.R. Mansholt, grandfather of the well-known minister and European Commissioner for Agriculture, Sicco Mansholt.