It is a terp (artificial living hill) village with two ring roads and the church in the middle.

[5][3][6] Around 800, the Lauwerszee, a bay in the Wadden Sea, started to form and Suxwort found itself on a little island called Humsterland.

[3] Around 1200, the frequency of floods started to increase, and to protect the village a dike was built around the island.

Around 1500, Cistercian monks from the Aduard Abbey started to build dikes and polder the land, and Suxwort returned to the mainland.

In 754, Saint Boniface was killed near Dokkum by a mob of bandits from the east of the Lauwerszee which probably referred to the area around Suxwort.