Address
Tsjerkestrjitte 4, NL-9107 GH JANNUM
Opening Hours
From April till September: Saturdays from 13.00 - 17.00 hrs.
Otherwise, please contact: Visitors' centre "Terp Hegebeintum".
Fee: adults € 1,50; groups > 20 p. € 1.25 pp. (children 0 - 12 yrs, free of charge)
History
Mounds have been widely spread throughout the north of the Netherlands
as a protection against high tide and floods. If these mounds are still there, there will be mainly a church on top.
The majority of the mounds have been excavated in the 19th century.
The church at Jannum was build in the 13th century with
Roman bricks in the romanogotic style, characterised by
round and pointed archs and ornamental masonery at the outside (and the cupola inside, which has been there long ago....).
The wall at the west side is decorated by pilaster strips;
in between two roud arched and well-decorated windows.
At the top of the wall is the belfry with the bell from 1489.
As from the fourties of last century the church is in use as Church Museum, showing many items,
found during excavation of the mounds in Fryslân, such as sarcophages, altar stones etc.
