| Kortehemmen | |
| Native Name: | Koartehimmen |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Netherlands Friesland#Netherlands |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Netherlands |
| Coordinates: | 53.0769°N 6.0725°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Netherlands |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Friesland |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Smallingerland |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 2.34 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
| Elevation M: | 1.6 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population Total: | 170 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 9211 |
| Area Code Type: | Dialing code |
| Area Code: | 0512 |
Kortehemmen (Western Frisian: Koartehimmen) is a village in Smallingerland municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 258 in January 2017.[3]
The village was first mentioned in 1444 as Korteham, and means "short silted land near a stream".[4] Korteham developed on a sandy ridge along the river with Kortehemmen on one side and Zuider Drachten (nowadays part of Drachten) on the other. Around 1300, a church was built in the village. No tower was built and a belfry was added instead.[5] The current belfry dates from 1950.
Kortehemmen was home to 127 people in 1840.[5] 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.[6]