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Kiesterzijl
Sign in to saveKiesterzijl (; ) is a hamlet in the Dutch municipality of Waadhoeke in the province of Friesland. The hamlet is located southeast of Herbaijum and west of Franeker, adjacent to an industrial estate in Franeker. Kiesterzijl has a number of houses, a swing bridge over the , a shipping company and a power plant for transmission towers. Administratively, Kiesterzijl is a part of Franeker.
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It is catalogued under topics including Locks of the Netherlands, Populated places in Friesland and Waadhoeke.
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Kiesterzijl (; ) is a hamlet in the Dutch municipality of Waadhoeke in the province of Friesland. The hamlet is located southeast of Herbaijum and west of Franeker, adjacent to an industrial estate in Franeker. Kiesterzijl has a number of houses, a swing bridge over the , a shipping company and a power plant for transmission towers. Administratively, Kiesterzijl is a part of Franeker.
==Lock== The Kiesterzijl was named after the nearby hamlet of Kie and was the largest and most important lock () in the Slachtedijk. The lock gates were usually open and were only closed in times of emergency, such as during a heavy storm when there was a risk that the seawall could collapse and the Slachtedijk had to hold back the water as a sleeper dike. Hence the names ('control lock') or ('guarantee lock') for this lock. The dike then closed off the water from the Harlinger Zijlroede, called from 1645 and Van Harinxma Canal from 1939.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kiesterzijl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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