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| Like many churches in Friesland, this one was built on a terp, a heightened piece of land to protect whatever was on it from floods. The current church dates from the early 15th century and was named St. Martinus until the Reformation of 1580, when it was conficated for protestant use, although it also served as a pilgrims church in memory of St. Boniface, who had been murdered nearby in the year 754. Originally it was a one-aisled building in Gothic style. The facade of the original aisle has a stepped gable, a 20th-century reconstruction of an old situation as known from old drawings. |
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