Erichem is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland . It is a part of the municipality of Buren , and lies about 5 km west of Tiel .
5-533: It was first mentioned in 850 as Ermkina, and means "settlement of the people of Ero or Eric (person)". The village developed along a former stream as a stretched out esdorp . The St. Joris Church has a 14th century tower with a 13th century base. The church dates from around 1500. In 1840, it was home to 438 people. In 2017, a barn fire in Erichem killed approximately 20,000 pigs. Animal welfare groups launched protests against large scale animal husbandry. In 2019,
10-513: A village green which was common land , owned jointly by the village community. The anger is usually in the shape of a lens or an eye, but may also take other forms: a rectangle, triangle, circle or semi-circle (illustrated). The buildings are oriented with their eaves facing the road. Livestock stalls and barns are at the rear of the plot (in Austria called the Hintaus ) and may be linked by
15-432: A farm track that runs around the village forming an outer ring. There is often a village pond on the anger and sometimes a stream flows through it which may not be easy to recognise today where the groundwater level has changed. The waterbody may well be the reason the anger was chosen. Originally there were no buildings on the anger , but in the course of time other community facilities were often built on it, such as
20-496: The farmer announced plans to rebuild. The new barn would house 29,000 pigs. This Gelderland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Esdorp An Angerdorf (plural: Angerdörfer ) is a type of village that is characterised by the houses and farmsteads being laid out around a central grassed area, the anger (from the Old High German angar =pasture or grassy place),
25-733: The village church, village school or a smithy . Angerdörfer occur in Central Europe, especially on ground moraine plates and in loess -covered terrain. In Germany they are common in East Germany and east Central Germany. They were often established during the period of German Ostkolonisation in the Middle Ages and in many western Hungarian villages (for example in Burgenland's Loretto , formerly in Hungary, with
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