Mar en Klif Visitor Center
Oudemirdum
In the visitor centre, you will discover many aspects of National Landscape Southwest Fryslân
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E-bike oplaadpunt – Hotel Restaurant Boschlust
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Southwest Fryslân is, for good reason, a national landscape! Start your ‘expedition’ at the Mar and Klif visitor centre – fun for young and old. Experience the story of the coast with cliffs, the clay area with medieval mounds and dikes, the five picturesque Elfsteden cities, the vast farming landscape, and the charmingly rolling Gaasterland where forest, meadow, and water alternate. In the country air you will know more. See more. Enjoy more.
More recent are the developments in agriculture. And the history of World War II. Special: in the Visitor Center you will find a small presentation about the V2 rockets, which were launched in 1944 from the Rijsterbos.
There are all kinds of fun activities for children throughout the exhibition. From an ice cave to fluff pellets, build stins and much more. Visitor center Mar en Klif is a surprisingly fun and educational outing! Experience it for yourself and visit us...
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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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