Idsegahuizum () is a 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 ...
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
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
. It had a population of around 220 in January 2017.
History
The village was first mentioned in the 13th century as Ytzinghahusum, and means "settlement of the people of Idse (person)". Idsegahuizum 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 which is located near the former
Zuiderzee
The Zuiderzee or Zuider Zee (; old spelling ''Zuyderzee'' or ''Zuyder Zee''), historically called Lake Almere and Lake Flevo, was a shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands. It extended about 100 km (60 miles) inla ...
(nowadays:
IJsselmeer
The IJsselmeer (; , ), also known as Lake IJssel in English, is a closed-off freshwater lake in the central Netherlands bordering the Provinces of the Netherlands, provinces of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland. It covers an area of with a ...
). It is an agricultural community which specialises in potatoes and ''
gladioli
''Gladiolus'' (from Latin, the diminutive of ''gladius'', a sword) is a genus of perennial plant, perennial cormous flowering plants in the iris family (biology), family (Iridaceae).
It is sometimes called the 'sword lily', but is usually cal ...
''. The village could only be reached via the sea dike. Between 1876 and 1879, the Makkumermeer 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'' and road was built to
Allingawier and the world beyond.
The Dutch Reformed church was built in 1870 as a replacement of a medieval church.
In 1874, a nearly identical church was built in
Hieslum.
Idsegahuizum was home to 77 people in 1840.
Before 2011, the village was part of the
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
*
Sjoerd Hofstra (1898–1983), sociologist and anthropologist
Gallery
File:De Dorpsweg in Idsegahuizem in Friesland.jpg, Street in Idsegahuizum
File:Dorpsgezicht van het dorp Idsegahuizum.jpg, Street in Idsegahuizum
File:Een mooi hoekje in Idsegahuizem in Friesland.jpg, Former farm
References
External links
Súdwest-Fryslân
Populated places in Friesland
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