Every design for Uithuizen
Wear your town with pride
13 unique designs from the town of Uithuizen in Groningen – map designs, local expressions and symbols only people who know the place will read. Also available as t-shirt, hoodie, sweatshirt or tote bag.
T-shirt
from 249 SEK
Hoodie
from 449 SEKSweatshirt
from 449 SEKTote bag
from 129 SEKAbout Uithuizen
Menkemaborg
Schnitger organ
Way of St James
On the Hogeland in northern Groningen, at the far end of the Boterdiep and close to the coast, lies Uithuizen. It was first recorded around the year 1000 as Uthuson, the outermost houses, built by the people of Oldorp at the edge of their land, and around 1200 a dike went up to keep the sea out.
That flat, open setting still frames everything. North of the village, on the coast, stands a natural gas plant; inland, the old farmhouses of wealthy Ommeland farmers dot the fields, and a railway runs on towards Eemshaven. At the heart of it all is the Menkemaborg, a brick country house begun in the fourteenth century and reshaped around 1700, its rooms decorated for the Alberda family with carved chimney-pieces and mythological paintings. Its gardens and maze are open to visitors. In the Jacobikerk plays one of the best-preserved organs by Arp Schnitger, and the village is the starting point of a northern branch of the Way of St James.
Arriving back by train, seeing the church tower above the flat land, you know you are home.
Shown on the map
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
Coordinates: 53.4074°N, 6.6732°E
