THE SECRET WADDEN ISLAND OF WIERINGEN

The former island of Wieringen is located in the northern tip of North Holland. The rolling landscape of Wieringen was formed in the penultimate ice age (Saalien). In the Saalien, the pressure of the land ice has created boulder embankments, including along the Texel-Wieringen-Gaasterland line. Boulder clay is a mix of clay and stones formed under the ice sheet (ground moraine). The highest point of Wieringen is 12 meters above sea level at Westerland. In the last ice age (Weichselien) a layer of cover sand was deposited over the keileen by the icy cold wind.
Characteristic of the characteristic Wieringer farms is that the barn was built transversely on the longitudinal direction. The rear façade of the barn has a high wooden potted and tarred rear façade (the skuurskot).
Garden walls ('woalkes') were used as a partition around sheep pastures. The woalkes were made by accumulation of sod inserted on the spot. On the rolling island, digging ditches, as is customary elsewhere in the Netherlands, was not an option. On the pieces of land surrounded by garden walls ('krochjes') the lambs found shelter from the ugly sea breeze in early spring. The woalkes required a lot of maintenance and have therefore been replaced over time by fences of poles and barbed wire.

At the photo: The museum farm Jan Lont

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