Fehnhusen

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Fehnhusen is a village in the municipality of Südbrookmerland . It is first mentioned in 1387 as Fenehusen . The current spelling has been used since 1871. The name is a composition of the Old Frisian term fene for Moorland, pasture with Husen . Fehnhusen therefore means moor houses.

history

At the time it was first mentioned, there was a castle of the Bishop of Münster in Fehnhusen . It served to protect the Brokmerland and as a base for sovereign claims and efforts by the bishops.

Next to this castle, the tom Brok , after they had risen to become chiefs , built Broke Castle in the neighboring village of Oldeborg , which became the nucleus of their claim to power. What happened to the episcopal castle afterwards is unclear. It may have been abandoned by the bishop with the advent of tom Brok and fell into disrepair, probably also because Broksche Burg was strategically located.

The largely unadulterated townscape is characterized by large Gulf farms. Behind the courtyards run the long and equally wide upways that were allocated in East Friesland in the 12th century and form the so-called “ square ” with the courtyard . The Fennen are on the opposite side of the street .

In Fehnhusen lived primarily the wealthy, " inherited " farmers, who were called " housemen " and formed a village-like, barely permeable upper class. The local voluntary community tasks ( dike judges , sewage judges , poor and church leaders ) were reserved for these self-confident householders. They also had the sole right to send the third estate deputies to the East Frisian landscape .

In 1938 the formerly independent rural communities of Engerhafe , Fehnhusen, Oldeborg and Upende were merged to form the larger municipality of Oldeborg, which together roughly comprised the area of ​​the medieval parish Engerhafe. This community went on July 1, 1972 as part of a regional reform in the community of Südbrookmerland , of which it is still a part.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ortschronisten der Ostfriesische Landschaft : Engerhafe, municipality Südbrookmerland, district Aurich (PDF file; 798 kB), accessed on December 9, 2012.
  2. ↑ Heinz Patze: The castles in the German-speaking area. Their legal and constitutional significance , 2 Teilbde, Stuttgart 1976, p. 351.

Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 1.4 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 45.9 ″  E