Kortehemmen

Kortehemmen is a village in Smallingerland municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 258 in January 2017.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1444 as Korteham, and means "short silted land near a stream". Korteham developed on a sandy ridge along the river with Kortehemmen on one side and Zuider Drachten on the other. Around 1300, a church was built in the village. No tower was built and a belfry was added instead. The current belfry dates from 1950.
Kortehemmen was home to 127 people in 1840. In 1939, a conference centre was opened in the village by the. Kortehemmen was physically cut off from Drachten by the construction of the A7 [motorway (Netherlands)|A7 motorway].