Appingedam

Appingedam is a municipality and a town inside the Northeastern Netherlands. Although there is no certainty as to the precise age of Appingedam, historical studies demonstrates that the vicinity in which the metropolis might finally be constructed have been inhabited for over a millennium. Specifically, the vicinity in which the earliest lines of human settlements had been said is the Wierde, 1 / 4 placed in the northern a part of the metropolis centre. Today, a narrow, winding road by using the identical call runs along the waterfront as a residing testimony to the times long gone through.

The feature landmarks of the old Wierde are nonetheless recognisable nowadays: the historical East-West Canal, called “Diep,” dug to the south of the Wierde, diked on each aspects, nonetheless defines the particular layout of the downtown Appingedam. Little is thought approximately the exact age and beginning of the call of Appingedam. It got here into life on the banks of the Delf, the existing Damsterdiep, round 1200. The name originates from a dam constructed inside the Appe or Apt. In 1327, Appingedam received city rights from the free Frisians of the Upstalboom near the East Frisian city of Aurich.