Raard is a village in

Noardeast-Fryslân Noardeast-Fryslân is a municipality of Friesland in the northern Netherlands. It was established 1 January 2019 and consists of the former municipalities of Dongeradeel, Ferwerderadiel and Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, all three of which disso ...

in the province of

Friesland Friesland (, ; official fry, Fryslân ), historically and traditionally known as Frisia, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part. It is situated west of Groningen, northwest of Drenthe and Overijssel, north of ...

, the

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. It had a population of around 223 in January 2017. Before 2019, the village was part of the

Dongeradeel Dongeradeel (; fy, Dongeradiel ) is a former Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the northern Netherlands. In 2019 it merged with the municipalities of Ferwerderadiel and Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland to form the new municipality N ...

municipality.

History

The village was first mentioned in the late-9th century as Ruonwerde, and means ''

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 ...

'' or Runo. Raard is a ''terp'' (artificial living mound) village with an oval shape dating from several centuries

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. The Dutch Reformed church dates from the 13th century and was restored in 1978. The author

Piet Paaltjens François Haverschmidt. François Haverschmidt, also written as HaverSchmidt (14 February 1835 in Leeuwarden – 19 January 1894 in Schiedam), was a Dutch minister and writer, who wrote prose under his own name but remains best known for the poet ...

used to be a minister at the church. The

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dates from 1918, and a replaces an 1893 church. In 1840, Raard was home to 133 people. Most of the ''terp'' was excavated at the end of the 19th century.

Gallery

File:Raard - Martha kerk-001.JPG, Reformed church File:20200612 Raarder Feart met zicht op Raard.jpg, Raardervaart with view on the village File:Raard, pleats oan de Lineleane.jpg, Farm in Raard File:Raard, Jehannes de Dopertsjerke (fanút it súdeasten).jpg, Dutch Reformed church

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Noardeast-Fryslân Populated places in Friesland {{Friesland-geo-stub