Damwâld

Damwâld (, official until 2009) is a village in the Dantumadiel municipality of Friesland, in the Netherlands. In 2020 it had 5630 citizens. This number of citizens makes Damwâld the largest village in the municipality of Dantumadiel.

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Place details

Locality: Damwâld
Region: Fryslân
Country: Nederland
Population: 5,560
Timezone: Europe/Amsterdam

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Damwâld
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: Hoofdweg 46 Damwoude.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Former town hall
Settlement.nickname: Cichorei City
Settlement.image_map: Map NL Dantumadiel Damwâld.png
Settlement.map_caption: Location in Dantumadiel 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: Dantumadiel
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.damwoude.com
Image: Woningen aan de Foarwei Damwoude.JPG

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== 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.