Opsterland

Opsterland is a municipality inside the Dutch province of Friesland. The municipality has 29,715 inhabitants 1 January 2019, supply: CBS and has a place of 227.68 km² . The "fist ax of Wijnjeterp", found in 1939 by using Hein van der Vliet from Lippenhuizen, proves that more than one hundred fifty,000 years before Chr. Absolutely everyone have walked in Opsterland.

It then took up to round 15,000 years for Chr. Before anything is heard of human presence again. From that time on, the cultures be successful every other, of which all forms of stone gear, a unmarried bronze object and shards of pottery may be visible in the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden. Museum Opsterland in Gorredijk has in addition to Wijnjeterp's fist ax, stray stones and artifacts inside the permanent exhibition on geology and archeology. The call Opsterland is first encountered in 1395, even though it is in a rather extraordinary form than nowadays. Upsateraland. Up is "on" and satyr is "sitting on", the excessive-dwelling people at the sand. The name Superhaudmare also seems within the 14th century as a demonstration of this vicinity.