Ancient landscape
The western part of Eems Delta is a landscape with a rich past and present. Many stories tell its recent and old memories and legends. Go on a bike, see and taste the vast landscape, subdued villages and read the stories.
Here’s what you’ll see
St Peter and Paul church
The St Peter and St Paul’s Church in Loppersum is a magnificent structure for such a relatively small village. The interior of the church is equally impressive.
Pioneers
Those first pioneers moved towards the Groninger land against all logic. A piece of land that consisted of little more than a number of higher salt marshes and was exposed to the changing tide. Somehow, they managed to gain a foothold.
Lopster aalbeerns
In the last century, after a month of hard work in August, peace descended again on Loppersum and its surroundings. The berry harvest was over again and people could take stock of their earnings.
Riepster Light
After his victory over the Frisian king Radboud II, Charlemagne ordered that laws be put in writing everywhere. Not everyone cooperated with that....
Born on the Fivel
The quiet village of Westeremden long ago had considerably greater significance than today. Around 1000 AD, Westeremden was not only the main town for the Ommelanden but was also an important port.
Up the church path in Huizinge
A church in Huizinge is mentioned as early as the ninth century. The current church was built around 1250, its predecessors will have been wooden structures, as nothing has been found of older building materials such as tuff.
For almost 1,000 years
The name Ewsum is first mentioned with certainty in a charter of 1371. But an older charter from 1353 tells of a jonker Ewe whose castle "in den Oert" had been "overthrown" by Groningers, upon which Ewe built a new castle just west.
The Camp Fighters
During a restoration of the church of Westerwijtwerd in 1897, a large piece of plasterwork fell down. Behind it emerged a drawing of two men with swords. It is a wondrous drawing, primitive, but full of life.
Peace Treaty of Münster
Adriaan Clant (1599-1665) co-signed the Peace Treaty of Münster in 1648, he is at the front of the famous painting on the Peace of Münster by Gerard ter Borg, and his portrait hangs in the Peace Hall of the Münster Town Hall.
St Peter and Paul church
The St Peter and St Paul’s Church in Loppersum is a magnificent structure for such a relatively small village. The interior of the church is equally impressive.