Klokkenstoel - Langedijke, NL
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Team Boon
N 52° 58.193 E 006° 16.215
32U E 316697 N 5872406
[NL]
Klokkenstoel met zadeldak met daarin een van de oudste klokken van Noord Europa uit omstreeks 1300.
[EN]
Bell chair with gable roof containing one of the oldest bells in Northern Europe from around 1300.
Waymark Code: WM13W7C
Location: Friesland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 02/28/2021
Views: 4
[NL]
In Langedijke, het kleinste dorp van de gemeente Ooststellingerwerf, treft u deze klokkenstoek met schilddak aan. In deze klokkenstoel hangt een van de oudste gedateerde klok (1300) van Noord Europa.
Klokkenstoelen werden veelal gebouwd in eertijds onwelvarende gebieden, zoals visserij en verveningsgebieden waar er door geldgebrek geen mogelijkheid was om een kerktoren te bouwen. Om toch op waardige wijze kerkdiensten of overlijdingsdiensten aan te kondigen werden klokkenstoelen gebouwd.
De klokkenstoel van Langedijke siert het kleine kerkhof waar twee oud-burgemeesters begraven liggen.
[EN]
In Langedijke, the smallest village of the municipality of Ooststellingerwerf, you will find this bell tuck with hipped roof. One of the oldest dated clocks (1300) in Northern Europe hangs in this bell chair.
Bell stools were often built in previously poor areas, such as fishing and peat bogging areas where there was no possibility to build a church tower due to lack of money. Bell stools were built to announce church services or death services in a dignified manner.
Langedijke's bell chair adorns the small cemetery where two former mayors are buried.
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