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The bombing of Terherne lock
The bombing of Terherne lock
On 11 November 1944, pilots of the Royal Canadian Air Force, based at Welschap airfield near Eindhoven, were ordered to bomb the lock at Terherne in two groups. The reason for the bombardment of Terherne lock was to restrict (German) transport movements. The lock complex was situated on the main shipping route from Germany via Groningen to the Randstad, along which the Germans transported goods and military equipment.
After the railway strike in September had already disrupted rail transport considerably, actions against shipping traffic followed in the months thereafter. The southern part of the country may have been liberated, but fierce battles were still to be fought in the other parts.
Such was the case on that 11th November just after nine o'clock in the morning when the two groups of Hawker Typhoon fighter-bombers took off shortly after each other from Eindhoven for their mission. Around 10:00, the lock at Terherne was bombed from the north for the first time and then again around 10:30.
The consequences were huge for the people living on the lock. The wives of both lock keepers, a one-year-old baby and a German soldier were killed. Also, pilot John Gordon Fraser's aircraft was damaged to such extent that he had to make an emergency landing at St. Johannesga. Although the bombing resulted in the northern passageway being deactivated and no longer usable, the southern passageway remained open and could still be used.
Today, a boathouse for the State yacht of the province of Friesland has been built over the southern passage. A new building, that serves as a guest house for the province, was put up on the site of the lock keeper's house on the south side.
A monument has been erected on the northern pier in memory of those who perished at the lock. This monument was unveiled on 10 November 1985 by Hattum Hoekstra, son of 1st lock keeper Wiemer and Tietje Hoekstra. Since then, the commemoration of the dead in Terherne has always taken place at the old lock, and the children of primary school 'It Kampke' have adopted the monument.
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Makkum War Memorial
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By 16 April, the major part of Friesland had been liberated. But some important targets of the Canadians had not yet been achieved. They wanted to win the Frisian ports and the Head of the Afsluitdijk from the Germans as quickly as possible. But they would be hard fought. Both the ports and the Afsluitdijk were used by German soldiers to escape to North Holland.
As elsewhere in Friesland, the Canadians were helped by resistance fighters from the Dutch Domestic Armed Forces (N.B.S.) They suffered several casualties near Makkum. On 16 April, Schelte Bruinsma and Simon Sipma were killed in an attack on a farm in which the Germans had entrenched themselves. The next day, another group tried to occupy a bridge under Makkum. However, the Germans caught sight of them and in the ensuing gunfight, Rinnert Anema, Roelof van der Meer and Hendrik Postma were killed. Makkum was liberated on 18 April, as one of the last villages in Friesland.
The monument at the Buren in Makkum was unveiled in 1952 in commemoration of the members of the Dutch Domestic Armed Forces who were killed around the village during the struggle for liberation.
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Peal 6: T-splitsing
Peal 6: T-splitsing
Dit punt is ûnderdiel fan it trajekt 'It Paad Werom Terherne'. Besjoch de hiele rûte.
(harkje hjir nei it audioferhaal)
Ja, want ek dizze T-spitsing bestiet út wetter! En it hûs oan de rjochter hân, mei it izeren stek deromhinne is yn dizze tiid in stôkâld wenhús mei in winkel dat omringe is mei fearten. Al die fearten hawwe ek allegearre wer fertakkings. En ek hjirre giet al it ferkear oer it wetter. Wat in stoatersk plakje om te wenjen midden op dit knooppunt! Terherne as Lyts Venetie. It âlde klintsje mei winkel op dizze hoeke baarnt ôf yn 1920. Dêrnei wurdt dit wenhûs bouwd.
Kom we stekke oer, nei de tsjerke op’e oare kant, de Fermanje.
We geane werom nei 1870, de tiid wêryn de goeddogger Dornseiffen preket. Yn Terherne is gjin grutte tsjerkestiid. De beide dûmny’s fan beide tsjerken wurkje goed meielkoar op. Links sjogge je de tinkstien stean, dy’t postuum yn 1922 troch de mienskippelike Fryske Skippers oprjochte is foar Dûmny Dornseiffen. Hy kriget dit as wurdearring foar it oprjochtsjen fan it skoalfûns foar skippersbern, wêr’t ik dy earder oer fertelde.
Okee, we geane wer fierder. Stek de dyk mar wer oer en rin by de supermerk del op nei de brêge. We komme hjir troch in stikje ‘Buorren’. It is hjir sterk feroare. Do witst sa linkendewei al dat Terherne as lyts Venetie is yn dizze tiid. Tusken dizze âlde húskes, links en rjochts fan ús, sjochst lytse smelle steechjes. De steechjes binne en wiene âlder dan de húskes dy’t bouwd binne. Alle steechjes rûnen nei it wetter. As der yn dy tiid drones west hiene, soest prachtige bylden sjen fan lytse postsegeltsjes grûn, omfieme mei wetter. Mei oan it wetter lytse húskes. Ho ris , we stopje eefkes krekt foar de pizzeria. It Pân mei de giele stienen en it griene haachje. Sjoch hjir marris om dy hinne. Dizze buorren, it sintrum fan it doarp is pas nei 1876 ûntstien. It begong mei in hiel smel dykje wêr’t noch gjin auto del koe. Der moasten ferskate húzen fuortbrutsen wurde om in strjitsje oanlizze te kinnen.
As we foar de pizzaria rjochts de gloppe yn rinne, sjogge we oan it ein it húske wêr’t ‘Ferhoalen Herntsje’, oftewol ‘Verborgen Hoekje’ stiet. Der stiet hjir in groepke mei lytse en âlde húskes. Hjir wennen allegearre skippers. We rinne werom nei de dyk en geane fierder nei de brêge. By de bankjes neist de brêge, stiet it folgjende pealtsje.
Dit punt is ûnderdiel fan it trajekt 'It Paad Werom Terherne'. Klik hjir om werom te gean nei de rûte.
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