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Joure (De Jouwer)
Joure (De Jouwer)
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Leppa Aqueduct
Leppa Aqueduct
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Holland Casino Leeuwarden
Holland Casino Leeuwarden
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The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics
The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics
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Makkum War Memorial
Makkum War Memorial
By 16 April, the major part of Friesland had been liberated. But some important targets of the Canadians had not yet been achieved. They wanted to win the Frisian ports and the Head of the Afsluitdijk from the Germans as quickly as possible. But they would be hard fought. Both the ports and the Afsluitdijk were used by German soldiers to escape to North Holland.
As elsewhere in Friesland, the Canadians were helped by resistance fighters from the Dutch Domestic Armed Forces (N.B.S.) They suffered several casualties near Makkum. On 16 April, Schelte Bruinsma and Simon Sipma were killed in an attack on a farm in which the Germans had entrenched themselves. The next day, another group tried to occupy a bridge under Makkum. However, the Germans caught sight of them and in the ensuing gunfight, Rinnert Anema, Roelof van der Meer and Hendrik Postma were killed. Makkum was liberated on 18 April, as one of the last villages in Friesland.
The monument at the Buren in Makkum was unveiled in 1952 in commemoration of the members of the Dutch Domestic Armed Forces who were killed around the village during the struggle for liberation.
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Vakantiehuis Aquaholic
Vakantiehuis Aquaholic
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Landal Natuurdorp Suyderoogh
Landal Natuurdorp Suyderoogh
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Tiny Farm House Friesland
Tiny Farm House Friesland
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Yachtcharter De Drait Woudsend
Yachtcharter De Drait Woudsend
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Remains of the Atlantic Wall in Harlingen
Remains of the Atlantic Wall in Harlingen
The bunkers at Harlingen were part of the Atlantic Wall: the more than 6,000-kilometer-long German defense line from Norway to Spain. The Atlantic Wall is one of the largest structures of the 20th century.
The line was built during the Second World War between 1942 and 1945 to prevent an Allied invasion of the Western European mainland from the sea. The Atlantic Wall was a series of separate smaller and larger support points that could give each other fire support.
In many cases they consisted of bombproof bunkers, sometimes with a wall and roof thickness of at least two meters of reinforced concrete. Due to a lack of labour, equipment and fuel, only 510 bunkers of the planned 2000 had been built in the Netherlands. In the English Garden in Harlingen is a German bunker that was part of the Atlantic Wall. It concerns a Communications Command Post with which the Germans coordinated the Frisian coastal defences.
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De Hege Grezen near Oudemirdum
De Hege Grezen near Oudemirdum
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Vaste Burchtkerk Fortress Church
Vaste Burchtkerk Fortress Church
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Vakantiewoning It Eilan
Vakantiewoning It Eilan
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Heech by de Mar
Heech by de Mar
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Nobel
Nobel
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Afsluitdijk Wadden Centre
Afsluitdijk Wadden Centre
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Stadsherberg Sneek
Stadsherberg Sneek
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B&B Gaasterland-Hoeve 44 - Kamer Balkzicht
B&B Gaasterland-Hoeve 44 - Kamer Balkzicht
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Public toilet Stêdspôle in Workum
Public toilet Stêdspôle in Workum
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Holiday resort Tusken de Marren
Holiday resort Tusken de Marren
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Village church Mitselwier
Village church Mitselwier
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Tusken de Marren - Vakantiehuis Anker wellness 8p
Tusken de Marren - Vakantiehuis Anker wellness 8p
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Atelier en Beeldentuin Fransje Versloot
Atelier en Beeldentuin Fransje Versloot
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Makkumernoordwaard Nature Reserve
Makkumernoordwaard Nature Reserve
