Witmarsum
Witmarsum is a village in the northern Netherlands. It is located in Súdwest-Fryslân, Friesland. Witmarsum had a population of around 1,735 in January 2017. Witmarsum was birthplace of Menno Simons, the leader of what would become the Mennonites.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,740 residents
- Description: village in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands
- Also known as: “Witmarsum, Netherlands” and “Wytmarsum”
- Postal code: 8748
Places of Interest
Highlights include De Onderneming and Flietserbosk.
De Onderneming
Windmill
Photo: RomkeHoekstra, CC0.
De Onderneming is a smock mill in Witmarsum, Friesland, Netherlands which was built in 1850 and is in working order. It is used as a training mill. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument.
Lambertuskerk, Arum
Church
Photo: Aurinko Holland, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lambertuskerk, Arum is a church, which is situated 3 km north of Witmarsum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pingjum and Windpark A7.
Pingjum
Village
Photo: Baykedevries, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pingjum is a village in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân in Friesland, in the northern Netherlands and lies 6.6 kilometres southwest of Harlingen. It had a population of around 585 in January 2017.
Schettens
Village
Photo: Baykedevries, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Schettens is a village in Súdwest-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 285 in January 2017.
Witmarsum
- Categories: cadastral populated place in the Netherlands and locality
- Location: Southwest Friesland, Friesland, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
53.10238° or 53° 6′ 9″ northLongitude
5.46735° or 5° 28′ 2″ eastPopulation
1,740Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
9F574F28+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 47957845OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2744303Wikidata ID
Q494324
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Witmarsum” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Witmarsum”
- Bavarian: “Witmarsum”
- Catalan: “Wytmarsum”
- Cebuano: “Witmarsum”
- Chinese: “Witmarsum”
- Czech: “Witmarsun”
- Danish: “Witmarsum”
- Dutch: “Witmarsum (Nederland)”
- Dutch: “Witmarsum”
- Dutch: “Wytmarsum”
- Esperanto: “Witmarsum”
- French: “Witmarsum”
- French: “Wytmarsum”
- German: “Witmarsum”
- German: “Wytmarsum”
- Irish: “Wytmarsum”
- Low German: “Witmarsum”
- Luxembourgish: “Witmarsum”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Witmarsum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Witmarsum”
- Persian: “ویتمارسوم”
- Portuguese: “Wytmarsum”
- Russian: “Витмарсум”
- Russian: “Витмарсюм”
- Spanish: “Wytmarsum”
- Swedish: “Witmarsum”
- Ukrainian: “Вітмарсюм”
- Western Frisian: “Wytmarsum”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include koepelkerk and Menno Siemonskerk.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Witmarsum”. Photo: RomkeHoekstra, CC0.