Tytsjerk is a small village in Tytsjerksteradiel

Tytsjerksteradiel

Tytsjerksteradiel is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. It is named after the town of Tytsjerk, whose name is derived from a person named Tiete. Tiete was a daughter of Tryn, after whom the region is named...

 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

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. It had a population of 1539 on December 31, 2007.

History

In the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...

 the village was called Thiakerka or Tiakerka. That would refer to a saint named Thialdus, Titus, Thialda or Titia. It may have been the capital of the grietenij

Grietenij

A grietenij was a forerunner to the gemeente or municipality in Frisia, particularly inFriesland, and also in Groningen which are now a part of the Netherlands. From the end of the...

, The name of the current municipal Tytsjerksteradiel indicates there on.
The foundations of the church can be seen that thechurch between 1200 and 1300 already has been. in a church certificate is the village in 1328 already mentioned. In 1720 the foundations for thecontemporary church placed.
the church bell which dates from 1608 is at war been to Germany to be melted to bullets and bombs, but is returned. The clock has once hung in a belfry but depends already two centuries in the tower of the church.

Bosk fan Ypey

Near the village is park Vijversburg, Also known as the bosk fan Ypey. this was earlier held from the rich families Looxma and Ypey, later it became property from The Foundation on Toutenburch. The park is laid out by the landscape architect Roodbaard.

Population

• 1900 - 761
• 1910 - 828
• 1940 - 902
• 1954 - 829
• 1959 - 786
• 1964 - 954
• 1969 - 1255
• 1974 - 1435
• 2004 - 1400
• 2008 - 1539