Boazum
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| name = Bozum
| native_name = Boazum
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| settlement_type = Village
| image_skyline = Sint-Martinuskerk Boazum.jpg
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| image_caption = St Martin's church
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| map_caption = Location in the former Littenseradiel municipality
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| subdivision_name1 = {{flagicon|Friesland}} Friesland
| subdivision_type2 = Municipality
| subdivision_name2 = {{flagicon|Súdwest-Fryslân}} Súdwest-Fryslân
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| unit_pref = Metric
| area_total_km2 = 7.79
| elevation_footnotes = {{cite web |url = http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool |title = Postcodetool for 8635LA |language = nl |work = Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland |publisher = Het Waterschapshuis |access-date = 5 April 2022 }}
| elevation_m = 0.6
| population_as_of = 2021
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| population_total = 425
| population_density_km2 = auto
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Boazum ({{langx|nl|Bozum}}{{cite web |url=http://namen.taalunie.org/friese-namen |title=Friese namen |last=Taalunie |first= |year=2019 |language=Dutch |access-date= 1 December 2019}}) is a Frisian village in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands with an approximate population of 397 in January 2017.[http://www.littenseradiel.nl/internet/over-littenseradiel_41217/item/aantal-inwoners-per-dorp_14845.html Aantal inwoners per dorp] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421112253/http://www.littenseradiel.nl/internet/over-littenseradiel_41217/item/aantal-inwoners-per-dorp_14845.html# |date=2017-04-21 }} - Littenseradiel The Boazum church is an example of romanesque twelfth-century architecture and possesses an Ottonian fresco portraying a beardless Christ.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1260 as Bosingum, and "settlement of the people of Bose (person)".{{cite web|url=https://etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/boazum |title=Boazum - (geografische naam) |website=Etymologiebank |access-date=5 April 2022 |language=nl}} Boazum is a terp (artificial living hill) village. It was located on a river leading to the former Middelzee. The stins Walta State was located on the southern part of the terp and was first described in 998. It was demolished in 1839.
The Dutch Reformed church dates from the late-12th century and has a 13th-century tower. It was extensively modified and restored between 1939 and 1948.{{cite web|url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/sten009monu06_01/sten009monu06_01_0029.php |title=Boazum |author=Ronald Stenvert & Sabine Broekhoven |year=2000 |publisher=Waanders |location=Zwolle |isbn=90 400 9476 4 |language=nl |access-date=5 April 2022}}
Boazum was home to 423 people in 1840.{{cite web|url=https://www.plaatsengids.nl/boazum |title=Boazum |website=Plaatsengids|access-date=5 April 2022 |language=nl}} There was a railway station on the Leeuwarden–Sneek railway line between 1883 and 1944.{{cite web|url=http://www.stationsweb.nl/station.asp?station=bozum |title=station Bozum |website=Stationweb |access-date=5 April 2022 |language=nl}} Before 2018, the village was part of the Littenseradiel municipality.
Notable people
A famous Boazumer (although mainly by proxy) was the reverend Eelco Alta (1723-1798), whose treatise Philosophical Considerations concerning the Conjunction of the Planets Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury and the Moon. To be happening on the Eighth of May 1774, and about the Possible and Likely Astronomical and Physical Consequences of this Conjunction[Eelco Alta. Philosophische Bedenkingen over de Conjunctie van de Planeten Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercurius en de Maan. Op den Agtsten May 1774. staande te gebeuren, en wel over de Mogelyke en Waarschynelyke Sterre en Natuurkundige Gevolgen deezer Conjunctie. Boazum, 1774.] from 1774 was long said to have motivated Eise Eisinga to build his famous planetarium. According to the canonicised view, Alta stated that the upcoming conjunction of the planets with the sun would herald the apocalypse, and through his planetarium, Eisinga was able to prove that in fact, the conjunction would not take place. Modern research has however come to the more prosaic conclusion that Eisinga was mainly motivated by practical motives - most of all not having to calculate the orbits and respective positions of the planets and the sun on paper, but instead using his planetarium as a reference.Huib J. Zuidervaart, Speculatie, wetenschap en vernuft. Fysica en astronomie volgens Wytze Foppes Dongjuma (1707-1778), instrumentmaker te Leeuwarden (Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy, 1995).
Notable buildings
Gallery
File:20140530 Suderdyk 2 Boazum (Bozum) Fr NL.jpg|Farm in Boazum
File:Aanzicht - Bozum - 20039486 - RCE.jpg|Former bakery (1965)
File:Overzicht - Bozum - 20039490 - RCE.jpg|Houses in Boazum (1965)
File:20190515 alpacas en schapen ten zuidwesten van Boazum.jpg|Alpacas and sheep near Boazum
References
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