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* Witveen, a hamlet in the Dutch province of Friesland, the seat of a Mennonite congregation now called Rottevalle. The congregation at Witveen was probably founded ca. 1620, when the peat fens (Dutch, veen) in this area were broken up. The first pe + diggers were mostly Mennonites; at first meetings were held in a peat digger's hut, but in 1671 a plain meetinghouse was erected, which was considerably remodeled and enlarged in 1712. It was first called called Witveen and Oostermeer. |
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