Bitgum

Bitgum
Village
Bitgum
Location in Menameradiel municipality
Bitgum Location in the Netherlands
Coordinates: Coordinates: 53°14′12″N 5°41′15″E / 53.23667°N 5.68750°E / 53.23667; 5.68750
Country	Netherlands
Province	Friesland
Municipality	Waadhoeke
Population  (2017)
• Total	792
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	9044
Telephone area	058

Bitgum (Dutch: Beetgum) is a village in Waadhoeke municipality in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. It had a population of around 792 in January 2017.^[1]

History[]

Before 2018, the village was part of the Menameradiel municipality. Bitgum gained notoriety in 1895, when three brothers from the village (Keimpe, Wybren and Marten Hogerhuis) were arrested for their alleged and disputed involvement in a burglary in the village of Britsum. The involvement of the Social Democrat Party's leader, Pieter Jelles Troelstra two years later, catapulted the village into the national headlines.^[2]

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  Church

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  Bitgum's "Hege Wier", remains of one of 5 "stiens", or medieval castles in Friesland

Aircraft crash[]

On June 9th, 2016 a demonstration fighter jet crashed in the lake next to 'De bodde', the pilot saved himself by ejecting from the aircraft.

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