Pechtas Castle
Pechtas Castle houses the Parliament of Isselmere-Nieland.
Origins
The earliest foundations of the castle — essentially a fortified monastery — and attached buildings date back to the thirteenth-century. Much of the present-day structure is of more recent origin, notably the major reconstruction work undertaken in the mid-fourteenth- and sixteenth-centuries, which itself underwent great change throughout the latter half of the nineteenth-century.
Etymology
Pechtas derives either from Perchta, a Germanic goddess of vegetation and fertility, or the first name the Anglo-Frisian tribes associated with the indigenous Lethean population, itself derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for Pict.
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