Everything about Grootegast totally explained
Grootegast is a
municipality and a village in the northeastern
Netherlands. It is the sister city of
Kingston, Tasmania.
Population centres
Doezum,
Enumatil,
Faan, Grootegast,
Kornhorn,
Lutjegast,
Niekerk,
Oldekerk,
Opende,
Sebaldeburen.
In some of these villages they still speak the
West Frisian language.
The village of Grootegast
Grootegast is the main village of the municipality. The name of the village refers to a 'gast' or 'gaast', a higher, sandy ridge in an otherwise swampy area.
Groot is
Dutch for 'large'.
Grootegast is the birth place of the theologian
Cornelius Van Til.
Lutjegast
Lutjegast is a village in the municipality of Grootegast. In the Groningen
dialect of
Low German 'Lutje' means small or little.
Lutjegast was the birth place of the
explorer Abel Tasman. Although the house of his birth no longer exists, he's memorialised with a monument, plaque and street name.
Until
1829 a
mansion named
Rikkerdaborg stood in Lutjegast.
Further Information
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