Hempens
Hempens is a village in Leeuwarden municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It was first mentioned in 1463 as Hempens, and means "settlement of the people of Hempe ".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 232 residents
- Description: village in Leeuwarden, Netherlands
- Postal code: 9086
Places of Interest
Highlights include Martinuskerk and Akwadukt Langdeel.
De Hempenserpoldermolen
Windmill
Photo: Foppe01, CC BY-SA 3.0.
De Hempenserpoldermolen is a smock mill in Wergea, Friesland, Netherlands which was built in 1863 and has been restored to working order. It is listed as a Rijksmonument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Warstiens and Swichum.
Warstiens
Village
Photo: Baykedevries, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Warstiens is a small village in Leeuwarden municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 35 in January 2017. Warstiens is situated 2½ km southeast of Hempens.
Swichum
Village
Photo: Bouwe Brouwer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Swichum is a village in Leeuwarden municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 50 in January 2017. Swichum is situated 3 km southwest of Hempens.
Wergea
Village
Photo: Baykedevries, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Wergea is a village in Leeuwarden municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 1,560 in January 2017. There are two windmills in the village, De Hempenserpoldermolen and a paaltjasker. Wergea is situated 3 km south of Hempens.
Hempens
- Categories: cadastral populated place in the Netherlands and locality
- Location: Leeuwarden, Friesland, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.17859° or 53° 10′ 43″ northLongitude
5.83899° or 5° 50′ 20″ eastPopulation
232Elevation
-1 metres (-3 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL HPEOpen location code
9F575RHQ+CHOpenStreetMap ID
node 5882260369OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Western Frisian—“Hempens” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Хемпенс”
- Catalan: “Himpens”
- Cebuano: “Hempens”
- Chinese: “Hempens”
- Dutch: “Hempens”
- French: “Hempens”
- Irish: “Hempens”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hempens”
- Persian: “همپنس”
- Ukrainian: “Гемпенс”
- Western Frisian: “Himpens”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include De Bining and Oxena Brids.
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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 “Hempens”. Photo: Bouwe Brouwer, CC BY-SA 3.0.