the dome of the Rabobank looms over the Willemskade
presently a museum this building started in 1676 as an orphanage
the Wilhelmina fountain commemorates the queens coronation in 1898
City Hall was build in 1715. Below ground are the prison cells
Ljouwert has many canals, its bridges are handy to park your bicycle
on top of the Oldehove there are nice panoramas of the town and its surroundings
already during construction the Oldehove started leaning and works were stopped prematurely in 1532
yes, even Ljouwert has a modern skyline too, the Achmea building in the back tops off at 115 meters
de Harmony, Ljouwert's modern theatre
the newer part of the City Hall
Already in Roman times people carved out
a living here, and to protect against the high tides of the
Middelzee they built their homes and churches on
terps.
In
1435 three terp-villages merged into one and became Ljouwert.
In the 16th and 17th century the town flourished because the
Frysian branch of the
House of Orange-Nassau had set up house here.
Ljouwert is
start and finish of the heroic
Alvestêdetocht, a 200 km long skating contest on natural ice.
A great way to see the old city is the
canal tour in a modified praam.
We visited Ljouwert in July 2017.
the neoclassic courthouse dates from 1851
de Waag, the weigh house from 1590 was mainly used to weigh dairy products like butter
Us Heit (our father) Willem Lodewijk van Nassau guards his former residence
the Fries Museum
the Vrouwenpoortsbrug opens to give way to a sailing yaught
Us Mem (our mother) , the statue for the cows that made Fryslan's name in dairy products
