Grote Kerk
The church of Allingawier dates from the 17th century. The building is sober, both outside and inside. The church is part of the tourist route "Aldfaers Erf" and houses a special sound representation.
About this building
Allingawier was a mound village with a church before the year 1000. It lay in the West Frisian waterland, close to the large Workumer and Makkumermeer. The exterior is very simple. During the construction in 1635, gothic windows were once again installed, probably following the old church that was demolished in that year. The colour of the stone at the choir closure shows that the church was rebuilt in the years 1783-1788 and that the church was then shortened. The twenty-meter high tower has very thick walls. In the tower hangs a bell that comes from the old church tower. This clock was cast in 1599 by Henrik Hegewaert from Kampen. Allingawier is an old fishing and peat cutter village, situated on a muted lake. The large church is nowadays as Woord & Beeldkerk part of the tourist route "Aldfears Erf", which leads through the villages Exmorra, Allingawier, Ferwoude and Piaam. This museum route takes you past restored and originally furnished buildings and shows you old crafts, tools and utensils. In this way you can form a picture of Frisian rural life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in the villages near the former Zuiderzee
