Langweer (West Frisian: Langwar) is a village in Friesland in the municipality De Fryske Marren.

[1] Langweer has a rich trading history, and it is located at a small lake (Langweerderwielen [nl]).

Since the 1990s Langweer has become a favorite town of tourists because of its picturesque streets and watersport opportunities.

War is an old Frisian term for a parcel of land (like English ward) so the name meant long lots, for the shape of the paddocks.

[5] Between Langweerder Wielen (the lake) and Weversstreek and the Buorren (a street) was a zone called De Greate Gaest.

From 1907 to 1965 the Van Der Leij factory operated, drying grass, and pressing oil.

Inside is one of the best church organs in Friesland, constructed by Lambertus van Dam in 1784.

In 1829 the last grietman to live there, Schelte Hessel Roorda of Eysinga locked up the building and left it for thirty years.

It included another two buildings, the Vechthuis (battle house) and the Douma Stins, which was burned down by Burgundian soldiers in 1517.

The farm house was demolished in 1845, but rebuilt in part as an inn called Het Wapen van Friesland.

A butter barrel industry and a tannery developed in the town to make money off the farmers.