Cultural heritage in Southwest Friesland

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Plaque Blauwpoortsbrug
Plaque Blauwpoortsbrug
Before the Liberation, large groups of German soldiers left Friesland. With carts, bicycles and a lot of stuff it was a real exodus. It was not always clear to the Germans where to go.

Bolsward
Belevingspunt voormalig klooster Bloemkamp (Oldeclooster)
Belevingspunt voormalig klooster Bloemkamp (Oldeclooster)
Belevingspunt op de voormalige locatie van het indrukwekkende middeleeuwse kloostercomplex Bloemkamp (1191-1580) vlakbij Bolsward.

Hartwerd
Slottuin Rijs
Slottuin Rijs
Discover the grandeur of the Castle Garden in Rijs.

Rijs
The Waag building is on fire
The Waag building is on fire
On Saturday 14 April 1945, the Germans slowly withdraw from Sneek. To prevent the German ammunition stocks from falling into the hands of the Allies, the Germans decided to set fire to the monumental Waaggebouw on the corner of Marktstraat and Leeuwenburg

Sneek
Washing lines of Sloten
Washing lines of Sloten
Sloten likes to pay homage to its 'bleaches'. This 'Bleekweide' was a grassy commons area on which freshly washed linen was left to dry and bleach in the sun. Sloten likes to remember this bleaching system along its city moat.

Sloten
City Hall of Sneek
City Hall of Sneek
The City Hall of Sneek was built around 1478. The building was actually constructed on the foundations of two Frisians strongholds: a Medieval, defensible, residential tower. The City Hall was subsequently extended and altered many times.

Sneek
Nooitgedagt chimney
Nooitgedagt chimney
The silhouette of IJlst would not be the same without the old factory chimney, on which the letters of the Nooitgedagt name can be read from top to bottom.

IJlst
Drama in Marnezijl
Drama in Marnezijl
On April 14, 1945, Marnezijl witnessed a terrible execution near Bolsward. As a reprisal for the death of a German soldier, three men were executed at the transformer house on the Makkumervaart.

Bolsward
Locks and the Sylhús
Locks and the Sylhús
Hindeloopen is full of national monuments, such as the locks and the adjoining Sylhús. The locks were built back in the 17th century, and are the connection for recreational boats between the city centre and the harbour and the IJsselmeer lake.

Hindeloopen
Vuurtoren van Lemmer
Vuurtoren van Lemmer
Je kunt hem niet missen, wanneer je Lemmer binnen komt varen vanaf het IJsselmeer. Nog steeds word je van harte welkom geheten door dit beeldbepalende icoon; de Vuurtoren van Lemmer.

Lemmer
Memorial De Hoanne
Memorial De Hoanne
In 1946 the municipality of Wymbritseradiel appointed a committee to realize a war memorial to commemorate the fallen of the Second World War and to keep the liberation alive.

Tjalhuizum
Airmen Monument Bolsward
Airmen Monument Bolsward
On December 22, 1942, the American B-24 bomber B24-445TH BG (Snow Goose) takes off from Tibenham, Norfolk, Britain to bomb a railway yard in Osnabrück.

Bolsward
Blazerhaven
Blazerhaven
Alongside the sea lock in Workum, is on the one side the De Hoop shipyard and on the other, the Blazerhaven. The latter was dug in 2008, and forms a historic maritime complex together with De Hoop, around the old Zuiderzee locks in Workum.

Workum
Hervormde Kerk Gaast
Hervormde Kerk Gaast
De Hervormde Kerk van Gaast ligt aan de westrand van het kustdorp, net binnen de zeedijk. Hij wordt ook wel ‘It Beaken’ genoemd, omdat de toren boven de kruin van de dijk uitkomt. Je ziet hem dan ook vanuit de wijde omtrek.

Gaast
Birthplace Titus Brandsma
Birthplace Titus Brandsma
On February 23, 1881, Anno Sjoerd Brandsma was born in the Ugo Monastery, near Bolsward. He was the fifth of six children, five of whom would enter the monastery.

Burgwerd
Voormalige Stoomzuivelfabriek Lemsterland
Voormalige Stoomzuivelfabriek Lemsterland
In 1891 werd een vergunning afgegeven voor de stoomzuivelfabriek Lemsterland, deze fabriek moest een kaas- en roomboterfabriek worden.

Oosterzee
Gedenksteen de Welle
Gedenksteen de Welle
Het bankje aan de rivier de Welle herinnert aan de slag om Woudsend en de Oude Wellebrug

Koufurderrige
The crash of the Wellington Mk 1C
The crash of the Wellington Mk 1C
On the night of 8-9 May 1941, the Wellington Mk 1C aircraft of the No. 305 Squadron took off with nine crew members from Syerston Airport near Nottingham, for an attack on the German city of Bremen.

Oudemirdum
The Lady of Stavoren
The Lady of Stavoren
From the 15th century on, the flourishing Hanseatic city of Stavoren began to fall upon bad times. It is this period in history that is related in the saga of the Lady of Stavoren. In the saga, all aspects of Stavoren as a trading city are covered.

Stavoren
KNRM lifeboat station
KNRM lifeboat station
A particularly photogenic building and location is the bright blue KNRM lifeboat station on the dike in Hindeloopen. The old lifeboat station dating from 1911 has become a national monument.

Hindeloopen
The Blokhuis
The Blokhuis
After 1525, Friesland became part of the kingdom of Charles V, who had a large fortress built at Stavoren harbour in order to keep the Frisian people under control. It stood here until around 1580.

Stavoren
Nationaal Monument Missing Airmen
Nationaal Monument Missing Airmen
In het IJsselmeer, vlakbij Molkwerum, vind je het nationaal monument Missing Airmen

Molkwerum
Water Gate Sneek
Water Gate Sneek
The Waterpoort in Sneek is a water gate, a gate in a defensive wall that connects a city to a waterway. In the 15th and 16th century, a defensive wall had been built around Sneek.

Sneek
Johannes de Doperkerk Parrega
Johannes de Doperkerk Parrega
Als een lang bebouwingslint strekt het dorp Parrega zich uit langs de Workumer Trekvaart. Op een terpachtige plek, halverwege dit lint, ligt de Johannes de Doperkerk, omringd door een kerkhof.

Parrega