As you drive through the flat West Frisian landscape an enormous metal lookout tower suddenly rises up from the grassland. A castle once stood on this spot. Built by Count Floris V who certainly saw potential in this town near the Dutch coast known as Eenigenburg (which means: by the sea). The castle, which is now known as 't Huys te Nuwendore, was a fortress. The solders were stationed there to repress any uprising that might occur in even the slightest murmurings from the West Frisians. The castle was probably damaged due to many floodings in the fourteenth century. The remains can still be visited: the moats and foundations.
Eenigenburg also has a museum. A life-size compass there points towards typical characteristics of the West Frisian landscape: the mounds, the West Frisian Circular Dike, the remains of the castle, the day labourer's house and the parcelled landscape where the islands once lay. In the village museum you can also learn all about its inhabitants at the same time: such as the fates of the Eenigenburg family who emigrated to America with their children in 1849. Only one child survived the journey.