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Coordinates: 53°0520N 5°4146E / 53.089°N 5.696°E / 53.089; 5.696
 

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Bozum
Boazum
Village
St Martin's church
St Martin's church
Coat of arms of Bozum
Location in the former Littenseradiel municipality
Location in the former Littenseradiel municipality
Bozum is located in Friesland
Bozum

Bozum

Location in the Netherlands

Bozum is located in Netherlands
Bozum

Bozum

Bozum (Netherlands)

Coordinates: 53°05′20N 5°41′46E / 53.089°N 5.696°E / 53.089; 5.696
CountryNetherlands Netherlands
ProvinceFriesland Friesland
MunicipalitySúdwest-Fryslân Súdwest-Fryslân
Area
 • Total7.79 km2 (3.01 sq mi)
Elevation 0.6 m (2.0 ft)
Population
 (2021)[1]
 • Total425
 • Density55/km2 (140/sq mi)
Postal code
8635[1]
Dialing code0515

Boazum (Dutch: Bozum[3]) is a Frisian village in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands with an approximate population of 397 in January 2017.[4] The Boazum church is an example of romanesque twelfth-century architecture and possesses an Ottonian fresco portraying a beardless Christ.[5]

History

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The village was first mentioned in 1260 as Bosingum, and "settlement of the people of Bose (person)".[6] Boazum is a terp (artificial living hill) village. It was located on a river leading to the former Middelzee.[7][5] The stins Walta State was located on the southern part of the terp and was first described in 998. It was demolished in 1839.[5]

The Dutch Reformed church dates from the late-12th century and has a 13th century tower. It was extensively modified and restored between 1939 and 1948.[7]

Boazum was home to 423 people in 1840.[5] There was a railway station on the LeeuwardenSneek railway line between 1883 and 1944.[8] Before 2018, the village was part of the Littenseradiel municipality.[5]

Notable people

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A famous Boazumer (although mainly by proxy) was the reverend Eelco Alta (1723-1798), whose treatise Philosophical Considerations concerning the Conjunction of the Planets Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury and the Moon. To be happening on the Eighth of May 1774, and about the Possible and Likely Astronomical and Physical Consequences of this Conjunction[9] from 1774 was long said to have motivated Eise Eisinga to build his famous planetarium. According to the canonicised view, Alta stated that the upcoming conjunction of the planets with the sun would herald the apocalypse, and through his planetarium, Eisinga was able to prove that in fact, the conjunction would not take place. Modern research has however come to the more prosaic conclusion that Eisinga was mainly motivated by practical motives - most of all not having to calculate the orbits and respective positions of the planets and the sun on paper, but instead using his planetarium as a reference.[10]

Notable buildings

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021". Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 5 April 2022. two entries
  • ^ "Postcodetool for 8635LA". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  • ^ Taalunie (2019). "Friese namen" (in Dutch). Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  • ^ Aantal inwoners per dorp Archived 2017-04-21 at the Wayback Machine - Littenseradiel
  • ^ a b c d e "Boazum". Plaatsengids (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  • ^ "Boazum - (geografische naam)". Etymologiebank (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  • ^ a b Ronald Stenvert & Sabine Broekhoven (2000). "Boazum" (in Dutch). Zwolle: Waanders. ISBN 90 400 9476 4. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  • ^ "station Bozum". Stationweb (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  • ^ [Eelco Alta. Philosophische Bedenkingen over de Conjunctie van de Planeten Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercurius en de Maan. Op den Agtsten May 1774. staande te gebeuren, en wel over de Mogelyke en Waarschynelyke Sterre en Natuurkundige Gevolgen deezer Conjunctie. Boazum, 1774.]
  • ^ Huib J. Zuidervaart, Speculatie, wetenschap en vernuft. Fysica en astronomie volgens Wytze Foppes Dongjuma (1707-1778), instrumentmaker te Leeuwarden (Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy, 1995).
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