Wierdedorp Tinallinge
The wierdedorp Tinallinge probably originated around 500 years before Christ.
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A wierde is an artificial hill on which people used to build their houses (between 500 BC and 1000 AD) to protect them from the water from the Wadden Sea.
Tinallinge is about 6 hectares in size. The highest point of the mound is 3.7 metres above sea level. The farms were built with their backsides towards this 'circular road'. This allowed the farmers and their cattle to walk to the land via the ossegang. Nowadays, the ox corridor is no longer used by farmers, but the path is still suitable for walking around the village.
With the arrival of dykes, wierden lost their usefulness. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many wierden were excavated. Partly because of their fertile soil. In 2003, the mound on which Tinallinge stands became an archaeological monument.