Groningen

Groningen is located in the province of the same name, in northeastern Nederland (the Netherlands) and has less than 200 thousand residents.¹ The dialect Gronings spoken by many provincials was originally that of the city, called Grunnen in that branch of Low Saxon (Nedersaksisch).² The tallest building is the Martinitoren, which obtained that status in the 17th century. That church's nickname is d'Olle Grieze (old Gray One).³ An interesting looking new building, not yet completed as of 2010, is the Life Sciences Building (Centruum voor Levenswetenschappen) at the university. This university's math department was once chaired by Johann Bernouli, one of the contributors to the elaboration of calculus around the turn of the 17th century.

External references

Main building of the university in Groningen

Footnotes

1. World-gazetteer.com, accessed 12/4/2010.
2. See the comments in the legend of the Begium and Netherlands map in Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed., Ethnologue (SIL International, 2005).
3. Emporis.com, accessed 12/4/2010. It is currently 97 meters high. Its prior tower reached 127 meters in the 15th century but burned in the 16th.