Beers | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Other Name: | Bears |
Native Name Lang: | nl |
Image Map1: | Map NL Littenseradiel Bears.png |
Map Caption1: | Bears in the former municipality of Littenseradiel |
Pushpin Map: | Netherlands Friesland#Netherlands |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Netherlands |
Coordinates: | 53.1564°N 5.7339°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Netherlands |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Friesland |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Leeuwarden |
Elevation M: | 2 |
Area Total Km2: | 2.46 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 135 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 9025 |
Area Code Type: | Dialing code |
Area Code: | 058 |
Bears (Dutch: Beers) is a small village in the Dutch province of Friesland.[3] It is located in the municipality Leeuwarden, about 8 km southwest of Leeuwarden.[4] Bears has a population of about 133 in January 2017.[5]
The official name of the village is in Frisian ("Bears"), like all villages in Littenseradiel. "Beers" is the Dutch name.
It was first mentioned in 1305 as Beerse, and means "fenced off hunting area".[6] Bears is a terp (artificial living hill) village. The Protestant church of Bears dates from the 13th century.[7] The Uniastate was a stins of the Unia family. The estate was demolished in 1756, and only the gate house has remained. A steel framed replica of the estate was built in the 1990, and has an observation tower in the middle to view the landscape.[8]
Before 2018, the village was part of the Littenseradiel municipality.[7]