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Der Friesenwall. An unfinished last-ditch coastal defence system
On 28 August 1944, a desperate Hitler ordered the construction of a huge defensive wall in the north of Germany, running all the way...
Hans Faber
May 45 min read


Was it the proverbial two captains on the same boat that made the Frisians free?
The much-celebrated Frisian Freedom is the period between more or less 1250 and 1500, a time when the Frisian terrae ‘lands’, with...
Hans Faber
Mar 305 min read


Between Leffinge and Misthusum—understanding the basics of terps
Manmade hills to dwell on. Often considered typical Frisian, but they are not. Only think of the Kincaid Mounds of the Mississippian...
Hans Faber
Sep 29, 202419 min read


“Ich mag Ihre Pelzer- und Schustertöchter nicht!”—a kiss of death
Like everywhere along the Wadden Sea shores in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the small republics of the tidal marshlands had to...
Hans Faber
Jul 28, 202410 min read


The Deer Hunter of Fallward, and his Throne of the Marsh
lighthouse Kleine Preuße 'little Prussian' at the marsh near Wremem, Land Wursten Close to a terp named Fallward near the village of...
Hans Faber
Dec 3, 202314 min read


Golden Calves, or bursting udders on bony legs?
Beauty is the best guarantee for quality and success. At least, this is how farmers in the province of Friesland thought of dairy cattle...
Hans Faber
Oct 1, 202342 min read


A Croaking Ode to the Haubarg by the Eiderstedter Nachtigall
Haubargs . Cathedral-like farmsteads with hipped-shaped roofs up to twenty meters high that were, and are, icons of the peninsula of...
Hans Faber
Jul 23, 202330 min read


The many faces of Friesland, that of a bastard included
May 8, 2021. Visual artist, photographer Arie Bruinsma approached one of the Frisian bastards . Arie explained to him that his wife...
Hans Faber
Dec 14, 20228 min read


A severe case of inattentional blindness: the Frisian tribe’s name
The name Frisii for the people living on the southern coast of the North Sea is old. Very old. It dates from Late Antiquity. Today, we...
Hans Faber
Aug 14, 202216 min read
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