Joure
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Joure (Frisian: De Jouwer) is a town in the Dutch province of Friesland. With 13,000 inhabitants, it is the largest town in the municipality of Skarsterlân.
[edit] History
Joure used to be an outskirt of a village called Westermeer, but soon grew bigger than the original town. Around 1950, the name "Westermeer" was erased from the map, and replaced by Joure. Until the 1950s Joure remained a small-scale village, consisting of only few streets and waterways. From then on it started expanding into several directions.
In 1753 Egbert Douwes founded a company selling colonial goods, in Joure. His heirs renamed the company to Douwe Egberts and made it a world imperium, mainly focusing on coffee, tea and tobacco. Nowadays many people in this town still have jobs related to DE, even though its headquarters moved to Utrecht decades ago.
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