Indoor activities in Friesland
Even if the weather lets us down, you won't get bored in Friesland. Come enjoy our indoor activities. How about an indoor playground, arcade or go-kart track, for example? And don't forget our paresl in Franeker and Lemmer: the Eise Eisinga Planetarium and the Woudagemaal. Are you coming through the Afsluitdijk? Then take a look at the Afsluitdijk Wadden Center!
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Poptaslot of Heringastate
Poptaslot of Heringastate
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Ypeymolen
Ypeymolen
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Slachtehiem
Slachtehiem
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Minicamping Lyts mar Smûk
Minicamping Lyts mar Smûk
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De Lytse Mar
De Lytse Mar
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Yachtcharter Wetterwille - Smelne 1180 Mayenne
Yachtcharter Wetterwille - Smelne 1180 Mayenne
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Yachtcharter Wetterwille - Aquanaut 950 Mistral
Yachtcharter Wetterwille - Aquanaut 950 Mistral
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Hegewiersterfjild
Hegewiersterfjild
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Pean-buiten Akkrum - de Jister
Pean-buiten Akkrum - de Jister
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Smuk Lytse Bell Tent
Smuk Lytse Bell Tent
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Pean-buiten Akkrum - Waterlodge Reade Wikel
Pean-buiten Akkrum - Waterlodge Reade Wikel
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Kampari - Toscane
Kampari - Toscane
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Kampari - Lyts hûs
Kampari - Lyts hûs
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Mill de Swarte Prinsch
Mill de Swarte Prinsch
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The bombing of Terherne lock
The bombing of Terherne lock
On 11 November 1944, pilots of the Royal Canadian Air Force, based at Welschap airfield near Eindhoven, were ordered to bomb the lock at Terherne in two groups. The reason for the bombardment of Terherne lock was to restrict (German) transport movements. The lock complex was situated on the main shipping route from Germany via Groningen to the Randstad, along which the Germans transported goods and military equipment.
After the railway strike in September had already disrupted rail transport considerably, actions against shipping traffic followed in the months thereafter. The southern part of the country may have been liberated, but fierce battles were still to be fought in the other parts.
Such was the case on that 11th November just after nine o'clock in the morning when the two groups of Hawker Typhoon fighter-bombers took off shortly after each other from Eindhoven for their mission. Around 10:00, the lock at Terherne was bombed from the north for the first time and then again around 10:30.
The consequences were huge for the people living on the lock. The wives of both lock keepers, a one-year-old baby and a German soldier were killed. Also, pilot John Gordon Fraser's aircraft was damaged to such extent that he had to make an emergency landing at St. Johannesga. Although the bombing resulted in the northern passageway being deactivated and no longer usable, the southern passageway remained open and could still be used.
Today, a boathouse for the State yacht of the province of Friesland has been built over the southern passage. A new building, that serves as a guest house for the province, was put up on the site of the lock keeper's house on the south side.
A monument has been erected on the northern pier in memory of those who perished at the lock. This monument was unveiled on 10 November 1985 by Hattum Hoekstra, son of 1st lock keeper Wiemer and Tietje Hoekstra. Since then, the commemoration of the dead in Terherne has always taken place at the old lock, and the children of primary school 'It Kampke' have adopted the monument.
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Terherne Lock
Terherne Lock
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Camping it Krúswetter - Chalet Tsjirk
Camping it Krúswetter - Chalet Tsjirk
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Noarderleech Visitor Centre
Noarderleech Visitor Centre
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B & B Kastleinshoeke
B & B Kastleinshoeke
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Camping it Krúswetter - Kampeerpod 27
Camping it Krúswetter - Kampeerpod 27
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Kampari - Praathuis
Kampari - Praathuis
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Dekema State
Dekema State
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Gast op stal
Gast op stal
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Smûk Thuske
Smûk Thuske
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