Oudega is a small but bustling village, with a clearly popular multifunctional centre. It boasts a number of historic buildings, including several 'stelp' type farms and a Dutch Reformed Church from 1850, a three-sided hall church with a wooden gable tower and "waisted" pointed steeple.

Oudega was the home base for robber baron Ige Galama in the Late Middle Ages. Galama, nicknamed "the forest swine", was anything but loved. The inhabitants of the region decided to behead him, and figured a canon would do the trick. So a regiment of soldiers lent a cannon in Sloten and attempted to bring it to Oudega. But the extremely heavy artillery sunk into the swampy peaty soil around Oudega, east of the Fluessen lake. And so nothing became of the plans to murder the nobleman, who was involved in several of the major disputes in the Frisian countryside.