Heiligerlee (;

Gronings Gronings (; gos, Grunnegs or Grönnegs), is a collective name for some Friso-Saxon dialects spoken in the province of Groningen and around the Groningen border in Drenthe and Friesland. Gronings and the strongly related varieties in East Fr ...

: ''Kloosterholt'') is a village in the

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province of Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn; fry, Grinslân) is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands. It borders on Friesland to the west, Drenthe to the south, the German state of Lower Saxony to the east, and the Wadden Sea to the north. As of Febru ...

bordering the town of

Winschoten Winschoten (; gos, Winschoot) is a city with a population of 18,518 in the municipality of Oldambt in the northeast of the Netherlands. It is the largest city in the region of Oldambt in the province of Groningen which has 38,213 inhabitants. ...

, it is part of the municipality of Oldambt. It was the site of the 1536 Battle and the 1568 Battle of Heiligerlee

History

From the year 1230 till the year 1594 a

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nunnery (Mons Sinaï) stood in the village, the name of which is currently used as the name of the village Christian primary school. The 1536 Battle of Heiligerlee was part of the

Guelders Wars The Guelders Wars (, German: ''Geldrische Erbfolgekriege'') were a series of conflicts in the Low Countries between the Duke of Burgundy, who controlled Holland, Flanders, Brabant, and Hainaut on the one side, and Charles, Duke of Guelders, ...

. The Danish allies of Guelders were defeated by Habsburg forces. The 1568 Battle of Heiligerlee was the first battle that the

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won against the

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. The army led by

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and Adolf of Nassau defeated the Spanish, but politically it was no success. Adolf even died during the fight. It was the first battle of importance fought in the

Eighty Years' War The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt ( nl, Nederlandse Opstand) ( c.1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war included the Re ...

, and therefore often marked as its beginning. On the 300th anniversary of the battle in 1868 the then ruling king

William III of the Netherlands William III ( Dutch: ''Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk''; English: ''William Alexander Paul Frederick Louis''; 19 February 1817 – 23 November 1890) was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1849 until his death i ...

revealed a monument in commemoration of the battle. From 1908 to 1934, the

Heiligerlee railway stop Heiligerlee (; abbreviation: Hle) was a railway stop ( nl, stopplaats, links=no) in the village of Heiligerlee in the Netherlands. It was located on the Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway between the railway stations of Scheemda and Winschoten in ...

on the Harlingen-Nieuweschans railway was located in the village.Stopplaats Heiligerlee
(in Dutch), Stationsweb. Retrieved 8 May 2016.

Notable people

* Tjapko van Bergen (1903–1944), rower

Gallery

Image:Monument Battle of Heiligerlee.jpeg, Battle of Heiligerlee monument File:Heiligerlee - Klokkengieterijmuseum.jpg, Bell museum File:Museum Slag bij Heiligerlee, Heiligerlee (2017).jpg, Battle of Heiligerlee museum File:De Hessenbril.jpg, House De Hessenbril

References

External links

* {{Authority control Oldambt (municipality) Populated places in Groningen (province)