Appelscha

Also known as Appelskea

Appelscha (; Stellingwarfs: Appelsche) is a village in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf in the province of Friesland, Netherlands. It has just under 4,800 inhabitants.

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Settlement.name: Appelscha
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: Appelscha.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Appelscha along the Opsterlandse Compagnonsvaart
Settlement.image_flag: Appelscha flag.svg
Settlement.image_shield: Appelscha wapen.svg
Settlement.image_map: Map NL Eaststellingwerf Appelskea.png
Settlement.map_caption: Location in the Ooststellingwerf municipality
Settlement.pushpin_map: Netherlands Friesland#Netherlands
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: left
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 250
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in the Netherlands
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Netherlands
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Friesland
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Ooststellingwerf

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Official website: www.appelscha.nl
Image: Appelscha.jpg

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Commons category: Appelscha
postal code: 8426
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History and background
Sand and peat
Sanatorium Beatrixoord
Surroundings and tourism
World War II
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Appelscha (; Stellingwarfs: Appelsche) is a village in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf in the province of Friesland, Netherlands. It has just under 4,800 inhabitants.

== History and background == Appelscha is a village of about 490 hectares in size of which 8 hectares consists of water, it was first named in written documents in 1247 as Appels, which is a Dutch word meaning apples. The last part of the name Appelscha has its origin due to the woods around the village. ‘Sche’ or ‘scha’ means woods and was therefore added to the name of the village. It consisted from a few farms surrounding the Boerestreek (what was called high-Appelscha) for centuries, the hamlets Aakinga, Terwisscha and De Built close by. Appelscha remained a small village, tucked away between sand dunes and wet peat. In 2007, Oude Willem, a small natural area in between Appelscha and Zorgvlied was even chosen as "most beautiful place in the Netherlands" by readers of HP/De Tijd which is a magazine in the Netherlands.