Leeuwarderadeel

Leeuwarderadeel is a former municipality in the Dutch province of Friesland north of Leeuwarden. The municipality had 10,089 population as of April 30, 2017, source: CBS and had an area of forty one.38 km². Leeuwarderadeel changed into an agricultural and commuter municipality. In the municipality stood the oldest former stins of Friesland, Dekemastate . The oldest Leeuwarderadeel consisted of three elements, the so-called trim elements. The center a part of this already separated within the overdue Middle Ages because the territory of the later Frisian capital Leeuwarden. The southern component, along with the villages of Wirdum , Goutum , Swichum and Huizum , was added to Leeuwarden in 1944 . Leeuwarderadeel become then additionally the villages of Lekkum and Miedumoff to Leeuwarden.

As a end result of this improvement, the older resources for the history of Leeuwarderadeel are preserved in the Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden. As a part of the Administrative Innovations venture in Friesland in the mid-90s , it became proposed to merge the municipalities of Menaldumadeel and Leeuwarderadeel with Leeuwarden. Partly because of the result of the referendum inside the rural municipalities and the failure of the Administrative Renewal task, a reclassification become distributed with.