Herbaijum is a small village in Franekeradeel

Franekeradeel

Franekeradeel is a municipality in the northern Netherlands. It was created in 1984 by combining an earlier Franekeradeel municipality with the city of Franeker and parts of the former municipality of Barradeel...

 in the province Friesland

Friesland

Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...

 of the Netherlands

Netherlands

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 and has around the 250 citizens (2004).

Church

The church was built in the medieval, all thoughts in the second half of the 13th century. The building, except the north wall, renewed in 1872, under the guidance of architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

 P.J. Jaarsma. The north wall consists largely of yellow medieval bricks called kloostermoppen, locally repaired and completed by small yellow Frisian bricks. The tower

Tower

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 is probably in the twenties of the 20th century built on the west side eand has a constricted, octagonal

Octagonal

Octagonal is a retired champion New Zealand-bred, Australian raced Thoroughbred racehorse, also known as 'The Big O' or 'Occy'. He was by the champion sire Zabeel, out of the champion broodmare Eight Carat, who also produced Group One winners Mouawad, Kaapstad, Diamond Lover and Marquise.Trained...

 spire

Spire

A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. Etymologically, the word is derived from the Old English word spir, meaning a sprout, shoot, or stalk of grass....

, with slate

Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering...

 tiles.

Population

• 1954 - 278
• 1959 - 273
• 1964 - 255
• 1969 - 290
• 1973 - 241
• 2003 - 294

Famous (former) residents of Herbaijum

• Sicco van Goslinga
  Sicco van Goslinga
  Sicco van Goslinga was a Dutch statesman and diplomat, who served as gedeputeerde te velde of the States-General of the Dutch Republic with John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough during his campaigns in Flanders in the War of the Spanish Succession...
  
  , (Herbaijum, 1664 - Dongjum
  Dongjum
  Dongjum is a small village in Franekeradeel in the province Friesland of the Netherlands and has around the 300 citizens .- History :...
  
  , September 20 1730 statesman
• Jopie Huisman  (Workum
  Workum
  Workum is the largest town of Nijefurd in Friesland. It received city rights in 1374. It lies within the municipality of Nijefurd. Currently has around 4000 inhabitants....
  
  , October 18, 1922 - Workum
  Workum
  Workum is the largest town of Nijefurd in Friesland. It received city rights in 1374. It lies within the municipality of Nijefurd. Currently has around 4000 inhabitants....
  
  , September 29, 2000) painter has lived for years in Herbaijum and had here also been a wholesaler in rags and grinding.
• Piet Paulusma (Tzum
  Tzum
  Tzum is a small village in Franekeradeel in the province Friesland of the Netherlands and has about 1167 inhabitants .Reinier van Tzum, one of the VOC Opperhoofden in Japan, was born here.-External links:*...
  
  , December 15, 1956) Weatherman has for years lived in the village.