Hallum

Hallum
Village
St Martin's church
Flag Coat of arms
Location in the Ferwerderadiel municipality
Hallum Location in the Netherlands
Coordinates: Coordinates: 53°19′N 5°47′E / 53.317°N 5.783°E / 53.317; 5.783
Country	Netherlands
Province	Friesland
Municipality	Noardeast-Fryslân
Population  (2017)
• Total	2,746
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	9074
Telephone area	0518

Hallum is a village in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It is a village in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân and it had a population of around 2,746 in January 2017.^[1] Before 2019, the village was part of the Ferwerderadiel municipality.

The primary language spoken there is West Frisian. Hallum is also a relatively uncommon family name. There was a station on the North Friesland Railway which opened in 1901 and closed in 1935, although it reopened between May 1940 and July 1942. A restored windmill used to stand near the village. In 2000 it got moved to Burgwerd due to expanding industry and renamed "Aylvapoldermolen".

Like many towns in the region, it was built on land recovered from the North Sea. There was a standard layout for these towns. The center of the town was called the Terp. The Terp was the highest prominence in the town, and the streets radiated outward, like ripples on a pond, and were intersected by streets which reached out from the center, like spokes on a bike.

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  Windmill Genezareth

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  De Hoeksteen

Notable people[]

• Barthold Douma van Burmania (1695-1766) - Dutch statesman and ambassador to the court of Vienna

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Media related to Hallum at Wikimedia Commons

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