The Flat Earth Experience: Landscape

We had a lecture about the Frisian landscape. You can defided Friesland in three types of landscape:

North: there are dykes and kwelders and long fields to produce potatoes etc.
South-west: there are lakes created by the excavation of peat.
East: it's above sealevel, you can find forests here.

Other features of the landscape of Friesland are the Terpen.

The church of Hegebeintum is still standing on a Terp

One thing we noticed was the organisation of the landscape. Almost everything is man made. Like the dykes, the fields between the dykes, the lakes were created throught the excavtion of peat and in the East the woodstrips are getting restored.

Landschap in the east of Friesland were peat was excaved and now the lakes are remained

It’s obvious Friesians like everyone else took advantage of all kinds of things that nature had to offer them, like forms they used in structures and of course any kinds of material. They managed to transform sea areas to fertile land after many years of efforts and hard work.

The dykes are needed to protect the land

The simplicity and the organization is a characteristic of Frisians daily life just like the simplicity of the landscape. Cycling is Frisians common way to move to the city in any season in any time of the day in any kind of weather.

An impression of the landscape we've cycled through:

The Flat earth and the giant sky are meeting to create a horizontal line. The viewer of Friesland’s landscape gains the sense of balance and also they might consider themselves as minus existence in front of this view.

Terschelling

We also have visited the Isle of Terschelling. In the morning we went to rent bikes and made a tour around the island. The landscape is rich and manifold. Sand, dunes, woods, hills and lakes. You can see this variety also on the flag.

Poem of the Flag

Red are the roofs

Blue is the sky

Yellow are the dunes

Green is the grass

White is the beach

These are the coulours of Terschelling

By the translation of the Flag you already can see that Terschelling has a different landscape. Through pictures we want to show you the different types of landscap in Terschelling.