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Hesseweg, this road continues into Kollum Here runs the very first sea dyke that was supposed to contain the Lauwerszee. It can no longer be imagined, but up to this Hesseweg the Lauwerszee reached until the 11th/12th century. After the dyke was built, new land continued to silt up. The Hesseweg is also known as an old trade road. From around the 17th century, the road was part of an old trade route that ran from northern Germany, through the eastern Netherlands and onwards to Utrecht. The road owes its name to the Hesse, German merchants. The Hessen used heavy, wide carts, which did not fit in the tracks of Dutch trade carts. The Hessen roads therefore did not run through villages and towns, but much over so-called wasteland, and thus also over this old dike. Some inns were also located along the Hessen roads, often with the name: "Woeste Hoeve".