 Restoration by Fabrikaat Buurma of Oudeschans, Groningen was started in 1984 and completed in 1987.From the 1990s onwards, the village expanded considerably, when the new neighborhood of Groot-Bornemeer was built.In August 2018, Dutch Olympic swimmer Maarten van der Weijden, who survived cancer, raised funds for cancer research by swimming the route of the Elfstedentocht.