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Geschiedenis

Mûnein is a small village in Tytsjerksteradiel in the province Friesland of the Netherlands and has around the 700 citizens .HistoryUntil 1948 was Mûnein, a part of Oentsjerk. At the request of Village Interest in 1948 Mûnein received te village status in 1948 and came off Oentsjerk. the village status was given and Mûnein was independent of Oentsjerk. Until then, it was customary for the village status was given to areas with a church that did not Mûnein. Because there is a café, a primary school and associations, the state still provided by the municipality Tytsjerksteradiel on October 8, 1948.Since 1953 Mûnein is officially part of the Trynwalden a region on a sand bar showing the villages of Oentsjerk. Gytsjerk, Aldtsjerk and Readtsjerk.Flax factoryIt was Theodore Baron Marius Theresius of Welderen Rengers by Heemstra State, which has stimulated the construction of the flax factory. He was a member of the commission Door Arbeid tot Verbetering, which was founded by his father, Julius Wilco. On May 6, 1898, upon the municipality Tytsjerksteradiel submitted an application to build a factory near the Swarte Broek, a lake near Mûnein. So wast the first factory built of the "N.V. Friesche Maatschappij van Vlasindustrie" in Mûnein, the name came in colorful tiles on the roof and stand on the front of the factory, where it still be read. The location of the Swarte Broek was chosen because the flax had first go through rotting process in the open waters. The opening of the factory on November 24, 1898 with JJ Westra as director. The plant is to 24 April 1967 served. The restored smokestack and a statue on the square in town still refer to the time of the flax processing. Today there is a small form of housing for the mentally handicapped in the old flax factory and by the tall smokestack still be seen from afar.