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[[Image:Leeuwarden Oldehove.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Oldehove]]
'''De Oldehove''' amaitu gabeko dorrea da [[Leeuwarden]] hirian ([[Herbehereak]]). Okerra da, Pisako dorrearen gisan.
'''De Oldehove''' is an unfinished church tower in the medieval centre of the Dutch city of [[Leeuwarden]] (Stenvert, [[2000]]). Its address is 1 Oldehoofsterkerkhof. Like the famous tower in [[Leaning Tower of Pisa|Pisa]], it leans.
1529an hasi ziren eraikitzen, Leeuwwardengo heritarrek Groningengo Martini dorrea baino altuagoa nahi baitzuten.
Oldehove is also the name of an artificial mound ("terp" in Dutch) on which in the late [[9th century]] a (Catholic) church dedicated to [[Saint Vitus]] was built. Construction of the adjoining Late [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] tower began in [[1529]], after the citizens of Leeuwarden demanded a tower taller than the one in the city of [[Groningen (city)|Groningen]], the Martini tower. In charge were Jacob van Aken (or Aaken) and, after his death, Cornelis Frederiksz.
Eraikitzen ari ziren bitartean, dorrea okertzen hasi zen. Akats hori koknpentsatzen saiatu ziren, baina proiektua gelditu behar izan zuten 1532an. eliza eraitsia izan zen 1595ean, baina dorreak iraun zuen.
During construction, the tower began to sag, which the builders tried to compensate for by inserting several "kinks", but the project was stopped in [[1532]] ([[1533]] according to another source). In [[1595]]-[[1596|'96]], the then derelict church was demolished, but the tower remains. It consists mostly of brick, but the builders also used so-called [[Bentheim]] [[sandstone]]. It has a clock and two bells.
If you want, you can climb the tower for a few euros and have a nice view over the city of Leeuwarden.
==References==
* Stenvert, R. et al. ([[2000]]). ''Monumenten in Nederland: Fryslân'', p. 25, 41 and 189–196. Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle, the Netherlands. ISBN 90-400-9476-4.
[[Category:Towers in the Netherlands]]
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