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Pieterzijl
Sign in to savePieterzijl (; ; ) is a village in the municipality of Westerkwartier in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. As of 2021, it had a population of 170.
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It sits within the topics Populated places in Groningen (province) and Westerkwartier (municipality).
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Pieterzijl
- Region
- Groningen
- Country
- Nederland
- Population
- 155
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- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Westerkwartier
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
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- Pieterzijl
- postal code
- 9844
- P8168
- Henrik Svensmark
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Pieterzijl (; ; ) is a village in the municipality of Westerkwartier in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. As of 2021, it had a population of 170.
==History== The was diked at the beginning of the 15th century. In 1440, monks from the Jerusalem monastery in Gerkesklooster built a (= lock), which served as a discharge sluice for the new Zijldiep, a canalized connection in the Lauwers, the old course of which runs around the village along the hamlet of . This is the 'Old Lauwers'. The monks apparently named the lock after Saint Peter.
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