A young village with an ancient name - Kreileroord
Welcome at the edge of Kreileroord, a young village with an ancient name. The origin of the name of the village leads back to the Kreil forest, a forest that according to old stories once lay between West and Middle Friesland. These stories tell that the forest was swallowed during the All Saints’ Flood of 1170 by the rising waters of the Zuiderzee.
The storm surge, which made the sea break through near Texel, changed the calm inland sea Almere into an open sea. Of the Kreil forest nothing remained except the name.
Centuries later, during the construction of the Wieringermeer, a sandbank in the former Zuiderzee was named ‘De Kreil’. When the Wieringermeer was drained in the twentieth century, this new village received the mythical name Kreileroord, literally ‘the place of the Kreil’.
A young village with an ancient name
Landbouwstraat nabij 14
1773 AB
Kreileroord
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