The schoolhouse

( It Skoallehûs ) The house you see in the photograph is called the 'schoolhouse' or in frisian 'It Skoallehûs".   Why ? Does'nt it look like a little old farmhouse ?   So it does. Here is the story. The last headmaster was of poor health and he was allowed to stay on in the schoolhouse after the school was closed.  He lived there for another three years and died in 1883. The house has been empty for about one year and in 1884 some people stayed there for a couple of months. When you have visited the school then you know that the school was closed down in 1880.

In 1885 a farmer from Eastrum came to live there and he stayed until the house was to be demolished in 1895.  His name was Klaas Daniel Sijtsma. Thus in 1895 a new house was built for Klaas Daniel Sijtsma and this house bears the name 'It Skoallehûs' as the occupant was known as the mr Sijtsma of the schoolhouse. When he died in 1917, his son Daniel Klaas Sijtsma took over the farm and house.  In the house is a plaque bearing the names of all its inhabitants from 1895 until the beginning of 2000. From the schoolhouse originate the websites www.wetsens.org and www.padrepardo.org , a website about old churches (600 AD - 1600 AD) in Spain and France.

It skoallehûs and the labyrinth.