Hamswehrum
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Hamswehrum
Krummhörn municipality
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| Height : | 5 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 6.46 km² |
| Residents : | 469 (Dec. 31, 2012) |
| Population density : | 73 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 26736 |
| Area code : | 04923 |
 Card of the Krummhörn
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The village of Hamswehrum is located in the municipality of Krummhörn in western East Frisia . It is located in the Aurich district in Lower Saxony . The place is about two kilometers from the North Sea . The village currently has 469 inhabitants (December 31, 2012). Landesstraße 2 , which connects the village with Groothusen and Upleward , runs through the village .
history
Hamswehrum was first mentioned in a document in 1375. Presumably Hamswehrum was founded by residents of a submerged settlement (Hamswehr or Hayenswehr). The name Ham is an old landscape name for the southwest region of the municipality of Krummhörn. Remarkable buildings like the Geele Burg , the yellow castle, appear again and again in the history of the place . Today only one square named after the castle reminds of the yellow castle.
In 1744, Hamswehrum, like all of East Frisia, fell to Prussia . In 1756 the Prussian officials compiled a statistical trade survey for East Friesland. In that year there were 16 merchants and craftsmen in Hamswehrum, including three tailors and shoemakers, two bakers, two linen weavers and blacksmiths and one carpenter. Of the three merchants, two dealt with little things like salt, tobacco and soap, the third with flour.
For centuries, the natural depths and drainage channels that crisscross the Krummhörn in a dense network were the most important modes of transport. Not only the villages but also many farms were connected to the city of Emden and the port of Greetsiel via ditches and canals. The boat traffic with Emden was particularly important. Village boatmen took over the supply of goods from the city and delivered agricultural products in the opposite direction: “From the Sielhafenort, smaller ships, so-called Loog ships, transported the cargo to the inland and supplied the marsh villages (loog = village). The loog ships from the Krummhörn enlivened the canals of the city of Emden until the 20th century. "
Peat, which was mostly extracted in the East Frisian Fehnen , played an important role as heating material for the inhabitants of the Krummhörn for centuries . The peat ships brought the material on the East Frisian canal network to the Krummhörn villages, including Hamswehrum. On their way back into the Fehnsiedlungen the Torfschiffer often took clay soil from the march and the manure of cattle with which they their home were dug fertilized land.
The two farms Groß and Klein Bohnenburg point to the importance of growing beans.
On July 1, 1972, Hamswehrum was incorporated into the new municipality of Krummhörn.
Culture and sights
The painter's house, a gallery and an art workshop are among the buildings worth seeing in town . The Hamswehrum Church is also worth seeing.
Economy and Infrastructure
Until the expansion of the road infrastructure in the Krummhörn at the end of the 19th century, the Hamswehrumer Tief was the town's most important transport link. It is a branch canal that led over the Campener and Groothuser Tief to the Knockster Tief and thus represented the connection to Emden. Today it is only used for leisure traffic. In road traffic, Hamswehrum is connected by Landesstraße 2 ( Pewsum -Emden- Neermoor ). The closest motorway entrance is the Emden-West junction, the start of the A 31 .
Personalities
- Lenhard Everwien (* 1897 in Hamswehrum; † 1971), district leader of the NSDAP North-Krummhörn
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Heinrich Kaufhold ; Uwe Wallbaum (Ed.): Historical statistics of the Prussian province of East Friesland (sources on the history of East Friesland, Volume 16), Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1998, ISBN 3-932206-08-8 , p. 387.
- ^ Harm Wiemann, Johannes Engelmann: Old streets and ways in East Friesland. Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 169 (East Frisia in the protection of the dyke; 8)
- ^ Gunther Hummerich: The peat shipping of the Fehntjer in Emden and the Krummhörn in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies in Ostfriesland , Volume 88/89 (2008/2009), pp. 142–173, here p. 163.
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 263 f .
