Damwâld

History

The present day village of Damwâld is a merged place of three older villages, merged in 1971. The three villages were; Dantumawoude (Dantumawâld), Akkerwoude (Ikkerwâld) and Murmerwoude (Moarrewâld). But it was in the 19th century that the villages started really growing together already. From the second half of that century the buildings strongly densified and in 1880 along the Murmerlaan (later named the Haadwei) the first tram track of Friesland was opened, a horse track. The municipality decided to move the town hall to Murmerwoude. Up until 1881 this was located in the village of Rinsumageast. The move was a bit surprising considering the fact that Murmerwoude was the smallest of the three villages and Dantumawoude which the municipality is named after had a bit of higher status with a history of noble stone house (stins) and the village of De Westereen having the biggest population. In that village al lot of people where claiming that's the reason why the town hall should have moved to there. But it never happened. The town hall in Murmerwoude had been renovated a number of times but eventually, around 1970, the municipality decided that the town hall will be moved to stately stins of Rinsmastate in Driezum. The move meant that a lot of the services and shops in the three villages could have been in doubt without further steps been taken. Losing the town hall could mean losing the center place-function. That and a practical reasons with the fact that the three villages even more blended together since the new housing constructions of the 1960s. And some of the houses being in one villages while others in another while they there in a row behind each other. Making it a bit confusion for the everyday people and people like the mailman. To eventually solve this…

Most-observed species

• Common Pipistrelle

  Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774) · Mammalia
  24,411
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  14,740
• Common Buzzard

  Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  14,090
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  13,601
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  12,873
• Northern Lapwing

  Vanellus vanellus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  12,724
• Great Egret

  Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  12,202
• Black-headed Gull

  Chroicocephalus ridibundus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  12,104

Most recent

• M 3.8 — 2025-11-14
  0 km ESE of Uithuizen, Netherlands
• M 2.7 — 2022-09-24
  3 km SSW of Spijk, Netherlands
• M 3.2 — 2019-05-22
  1 km E of Warffum, Netherlands
• M 3.4 — 2013-02-07
  1 km NE of Usquert, Netherlands
• M 3.4 — 2012-08-16
  1 km NNE of Loppersum, Netherlands
• M 3.3 — 2008-10-30
  2 km SSW of Usquert, Netherlands