Mensingeweer
Mensingeweer | |
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 Michaelkerk with windmill on the left | |
  Mensingeweer Location of Mensingeweer in the province of Groningen | |
| Coordinates: 53°21′05″N 6°27′55″E / 53.35139°N 6.46528°E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | Groningen |
| Municipality | Het Hogeland |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 192 |
Mensingeweer is a small village in the Netherlands; it is located in the municipality of Het Hogeland, Groningen. It lies on the provincial road N361 from Winsum to Leens at the crossroads to Eenrum. The long-distance footpath called Pieterpad runs through the town and the Michaelkerk has an old Arp Schnitger organ that came from a church in Pieterburen and was installed in 1901.[1][2]The town also has an old windmill call the Hollands Welvaart built in 1855.
Doopsgezinde kerk
A Mennonite church was built at Mensingeweer, dedicated on 4 April 1819.[3] It was served by a series of freshly-appointed young ministers from the Amsterdam seminary, but in the 20th century it was increasingly difficult to find ministers willing to serve there and it was demolished in 1959 in favor of a new church in Eenrum.
List of Mennonite teachers
| Called | Teacher | Left |
| 1821 | Sijtze Klazes de Waard | 1826 |
| 1832 | Jacobus Leendertz | 1837 |
| 1838 | I. de Stoppelaar Blijdenstein | 1839 |
| 1840 | W. Bruin | 1844 |
| 1846 | Doewe Sieuwertsz Huizinga | 1847 |
| 1849 | Herman ten Cate Hoedemaker | 1850 |
| 1851 | Hendrik Arend van Gelder | 1853 |
| 1854 | Johann Peter Müller | 1857 |
| 1861 | A. Vis | 1863 |
| 1863 | J. A. Oosterbaan | 1866 |
| 1868 | G. Vrijer Azn | 1873 |
| 1884 | Ane Sipkema | 1881 |
| 1897 | Folpmer Jacob de Holl | 1900 |
| 1901 | T. J. van der Ploeg | 1903 |
| 1904 | E. Pekema | 1907 |
| 1907 | C. C. de Maar | 1910 |
| 1913 | F. H. Pasma | 1916 |
| 1917 | P. Vis | 1920 |
References and footnotes
- ^ report Archived 2014-04-28 at the Wayback Machine on church as rijksmonument
- ^ Mensingeweer Church website
- ^ Mensingeweer (Groningen, Netherlands) Archived 2012-05-16 at the Wayback Machine on Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
External links
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