Greonterp is a small village in

Súdwest-Fryslân Southwest Friesland ( ) is a municipality in the northern Netherlands, located in the province of Friesland. It had a population of 89,999 in January 2021. Sneek is the municipal seat. With a total area of 841.56 km2, Southwest-Friesland is ...

municipality in the province of

Friesland Friesland ( ; ; official ), historically and traditionally known as Frisia (), named after the Frisians, is a Provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part. It is situated west of Groningen (p ...

, the

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. It had a population of around 85 in January 2017.

History

The village was first mentioned in the 13th century as Grewingdorp. The etymology is unclear. Greonterp is a ''

terp A ''terp'', also known as a ''wierde, woerd, warf, warft, werf, werve, wurt'' or ''værft'', is an artificial dwelling mound found on the North European Plain that has been created to provide safe ground during storm surges, high tides and ...

'' (artificial living hill) village from the early middle ages. It was located between lakes. The lake Sensmeer was ''

polder A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrology, hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as levee, dikes. The three types of polder are: # Land reclamation, Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a ...

ed'' in 1633, however the village remained isolated. Later a small road was built to

Blauwhuis Blauwhuis () is a village in Súdwest-Fryslân municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 585 in January 2017. History The village was first mentioned in 1718 as 't Blauw Huys, and means "blue houses" ...

on which the village was dependent. The population of Greonterp remained Catholic after the

Reformation The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation, was a time of major Theology, theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the p ...

. The medieval church had become Protestant. Church service was later decreased to once a year, and in 1751, the last sermon was held. The church was demolished in 1780. In 1822, a little bell tower was built on the cemetery. Groenterp was home to 107 people in 1840. Before 2011, the village was part of the

Wymbritseradiel Wymbritseradeel (; official ) was a rural municipality () in the Dutch province of Friesland from 1984 until 2011. An earlier type of municipality () of the same name existed from 1500 until 1984. History Wymbritseradeel was formed from the d ...

municipality and before 1984 it was part of

Wûnseradiel Wûnseradiel () is a former Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Friesland province of the northern Netherlands, at the eastern end of the ''Afsluitdijk''. The official (legal) name of the municipality is in the West Frisian lang ...

municipality.

Notable people

The Dutch author

Gerard Reve Gerard Kornelis van het Reve (14 December 1923 – 8 April 2006) was a Dutch writer. He started writing as Simon Gerard van het Reve and adopted the shorter Gerard Reve in 1973. Together with Willem Frederik Hermans and Harry Mulisch, he i ...

lived here from 1964 to 1971, and initially named his house Huize Algra after the politician who had labelled his writings blasphemous. Later, it was renamed Huize Het Gras after Isaiha 40:8.

Gallery

File:20180817 Huize Het Gras Greonterp.jpg, Huize Het Gras File:20180817 langs de Rijp ten zuiden van Blauwhuis2.jpg, Farm near Greonterp File:20180817 Kunstwerk op glas Reve Greonterp.jpg, Glass Gerard Reve art work

References

External links

{{Authority control Súdwest-Fryslân Populated places in Friesland