Rottum (or Röppen) is a small village on an artificial dwelling hill between Kantens and Usquert in the municipality of

Het Hogeland Het Hogeland is a municipality in the north of the province of Groningen (province), Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. History The municipality of Het Hogeland was established on 1 January 2019 by merging the municipalities of Bedu ...

, falling under the province

Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...

in the Netherlands. It had a population of around 85 in January 2017.Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017
- CSB Statline

History

Heathen chapel

The village was founded on a clay bank of the Fivel estuary and the

Wadden Sea The Wadden Sea ( nl, Waddenzee ; german: Wattenmeer; nds, Wattensee or ; da, Vadehavet; fy, Waadsee, longname=yes; frr, di Heef) is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea. It lies between the coast of northwestern conti ...

. Since high tides were threatening the early inhabitants they raised its height with manure and waste: this way an artificial dwelling hill was created. On top of the artificial dwelling hill eventually a heathen chapel was located, according to the biography of the missionary

Ludger Ludger ( la, Ludgerus; also Lüdiger or Liudger) (born at Zuilen near Utrecht 742; died 26 March 809 at Billerbeck) was a missionary among the Frisians and Saxons, founder of Werden Abbey and the first Bishop of Münster in Westphalia. He has ...

. The name "Rottum" could be derived from "rot Heim", which can be translated as "red dwelling-place".

Monastery

St. Juliana's Abbey Saint Juliana's Abbey ( nl, Sint-Julianaklooster) was a Benedictine abbey dedicated to Juliana of Nicomedia in Rottum in the present-day Netherlands.. Louis van KelckhovenHet Pentagon van het Noorden, '' Dagblad van het Noorden'', 2012. Ret ...

was a Benedictine monastery, probably founded between 1195 and 1210 by monks from the Benedictine Werden Abbey in Germany. The monastery was demolished at the end of the 1800s. Rottumeroog or Rottum, an island in the Waddenzee, is named after the village since the monastery was two-thirds owner of the island. Near the village the nunnery named Bethlehem was located.

Protestant church

In 1889 a Protestant church was built on the same location as the monastery. The poet

Jan Boer Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Numb ...

was born in Rottum. In 1999 the sculptor

Greet Grottendieck Greet Grottendieck (born 22 February 1943 in The Hague) is a Dutch sculptor. Greet moved to the Veluwe The Veluwe () is a forest-rich ridge of hills (1100 km2) in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. The Veluwe features many ...

was asked to make a bust of Jan Boer to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his day of birth.

Gallery

File:Kerk van Rottum.jpg, Church of Rottum File:Rottum - Ceres (1).jpg, Former brick works File:Afgegraven wierde.JPG, Excavated '' terp'' File:Rottum - kloosterkerk - 1854.jpg, View on the monastery (1854)

References

External links

* {{Coord, 53, 22, 55, N, 6, 37, 13, E, display=title, region:NL_source:nlwiki Artificial dwelling hills Het Hogeland Populated places in Groningen (province)