Bronze bust of Anne de Vries, the author of Bartje, at the former museum Het dorp van Bartje in Rolde. It can no longer be visited.
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Art
Statues and artworks in Rolde's public spaces, from the Boerhoornblazer to Life Lines in the deer park.
Distances from de Jacobuskerk in Rolde.
300 m
Statue of a farmer blowing the boerhoorn, the horn that used to call the village together. It stands for naoberschap, the tradition of neighbours helping each other in rural…
450 m
Colourful sculpture from 2016 by the artist Eiiz Gihili, part of the Horsepower Mania project about motor racing around the TT Circuit Assen.
Bronze statue of a dancing woman by Kees Verkade, which stood in Rolde's deer park until it was stolen in 2018. It has never been found.
200 m
Statue by Jaap Hartman of a little boy in clogs with a lunch bag, in the middle of Rolde on the spot where the school used to stand.
300 m
Oak sculpture by Jeroen Boersma in the Hertenkamp deer park, since 2021 the successor to the bronze statue De Vreugdedans, which was stolen in 2018.
550 m
Bronze sculpture group by Bert Kiewiet from 1993: ten farmers and traders, on a lawn on Grolloërstraat near the Brink, the village green in Rolde.
150 m
Artwork by Arie Fonk from 1987 on the site of the old village pump in the centre of Rolde. Since 2022 the pump has been giving water again, including for walkers on the Pieterpad…
50 m
War memorial of white stone on the Kerkbrink in Rolde: a man carrying a water trough, with the names of war victims on its rim.