Heritage and culture in Waddenland
A tower more crooked than Pisa, an open-air museum that takes you into the past and beautiful old borgen. The lover of heritage and culture will only be short of time in Waddenland.
Menkemaborg
Uithuizen - In Uithuizen, you'll find one of the beautiful Groninger borgen that are still preserved. In the Menkemaborg you will find a museum. Built in the fourteenth century, the borg was originally a defensible 'stone house' that was enlarged and embellished over the centuries into the early eighteenth-century baroque house it is today. The rooms are fully furnished with fine furniture, silver, porcelain, brassware and portraits.
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Leaning tower Bedum
Bedum - Popularly, this tower is also called 'the Schaive tower'. The tower is even more crooked than Pisa's, but just in Bedum. The construction of the Walfridus tower started in the early 12th century. The church is named after the saint who, together with his son Radfridus, was on a hike to Groningen and was murdered here by Vikings around the year 1000. The saint was buried at this place.
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Mill Goliath
Eemshaven - The Goliath, a monument of water and wind, the vast Emmapolder and dynamic Eemshaven connect. As if it has always been this way. You experience peace and space at polder mill the Goliath. The mill still turns regularly.
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Open-air museum
Warffum - The past comes alive in the heart of the northern Groningen village of Warffum. Discover the countryside of over a hundred years ago at openluchtmuseum Het Hoogeland. Look around twenty old buildings and experience how people used to live and work. Living rooms and bedrooms are decorated with an eye for detail, as if the residents had just stepped out. An outing for young and old.
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Warfhuizen hermitage
Warfhuizen - In 2001, the old church of Warfhuizen was converted into a traditional hermitage with chapel. The church gradually turned into a place of pilgrimage and over time was recognised as such. The influx continues to increase every year even now, with pilgrims coming from further and further afield. The hermit in Warfhuizen is a priest monk originally from Odoorn, Drenthe.
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The Province podcast - Listen to the podcast on the Warfhuizen hermit here
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Luchtwacht- en observatietoren Warfhuizen
Luchtwacht- en observatietoren Warfhuizen
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