Roggenstede

Roggenstede Dornum municipality
	Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 51 ″ N , 7 ° 29 ′ 8 ″ E
Height :	4 m above sea level NN
Residents :	250
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	26553
Area code :	04933
Location of Roggenstede in Lower Saxony

Roggenstede is a village in the municipality of Dornum , Aurich district , East Frisia , Lower Saxony .

The place is bounded by the Dornumersieler Tief (in the north / northeast), the Schleitief (in the southeast), the Otjetief (in the south), the Alte Tief (in the west) and extends over an area of about 5.6 square kilometers. The distance to the North Sea is only about 5.5 km as the crow flies.

Neighboring towns are Holtgast , Utarp , Westerbur . Roggenstede has the postcode 26553, the telephone code 04933.

Development history

The subsoil of the town center consists of a storm surge-proof hill of a ground moraine from the last ice age that extends from the island of Baltrum to here.

Finds from the Stone Age prove that this is an ancient settlement. A stone ax, stone hatchet and fragments of a stone sickle were discovered here. Ceramic fragments come from the Bronze Age. Wolfgang Schwarz, archaeologist for the East Frisian Landscape , assumes that this sand island was inhabited for the first time from around 3,000 to 800 years before the turn of the times. After a period of high water levels caused by global warming, a new settlement takes place from the second to the fifth century after Christ. The place could finally be permanently inhabited from around 650. Professor Udolph, an expert in place names, assumes that the old place name 'Reckenstede' goes back to the settler 'Recko'. Reckenstede, the place of Recko. He assumes that this final settlement led to the name being given between 600 and 800 AD. This name lasted until around 1650. Until 1750 the place was mentioned as 'Roggenstädt', since then it has been called Roggenstede. Roggenstede was first mentioned in documents in 1420. Roggenstede owned a train station on the East Frisian Coast Railway . The section between Dornum, Roggenstede and Esens was closed on September 27, 1985 and dismantled in 1986.

Landmark and soil structure

The district covers almost 500 hectares. With the exception of parts of the western areas, it is lowland bog overlooked by the North Sea. The remaining area in the west was largely robbed of its moor population by storm surges in the 13th century. As the silting up due to the flooding of small particles by the flood movements of the North Sea, more productive marches arose here. The total area can be described as the 'Old March'. Over the centuries, a 'kink layer', a waterproof layer of earth, has formed. This does not allow the surface water to seep away from the topsoil. Up until 1963, this dilemma was accompanied by a totally unsatisfactory flood. - The entire area between Roggenstede and Schwittersum, from Westerholt to Dornum, forms a huge depression. The surface water flowing off the Geest collected here and stagnated in front of the higher-lying young polders. If the village was originally a farming village with the corresponding craftsmen, in 2005 there were still two main farms here. Several areas are not processed.

Settlement development

Until the community reform, the place was an independent community in the Wittmund district. Since July 1, 1972, Roggenstede has been part of the municipality of Dornum in the Aurich district. For centuries, Roggenstede was an agricultural village. Time passed calmly. A decisive change, here as everywhere, was the influx of refugees that began after the end of the war in 1945. The population doubled to almost 500 people. But after the currency reform in 1949, many of the jobs that were being created in the metropolitan areas followed suit. The population leveled back to roughly 250 people. At the moment the number has fallen to around 230 and is currently again 262 people. After designating a settlement area, you can feel a slight increase.

Attractions

The listed church has a free-standing bell tower from the 13th century. In 1237, the parish was first mentioned in connection with the elections for ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The church was built around 1250. It houses a unique written altar , a crucifix that used to hang on a forked cross , a baptismal font from the time the church was built and a tabernacle with the original painting. A special feature of the church is the hagioscope , a medieval leper column. A votive ship has adorned the church since 1680. The organ was built from 1827 to 1833 by master organ builder Johann Gottfried Rohlfs from Esens .

There is a freedom monument in the village center. This monument made of granite blocks was unveiled on October 13, 1913 in memory of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig - October 13, 1813.

Village life

The parish , the volunteer fire brigade , founded in 1904, the homeland association 'Dwarslopers' from 1987, the Klootschießer- und Bosselverein 'Up Höcht' from 1921, the local association Roggenstede in the Sozialverband Deutschland eV, founded around 1950, as well as the hunting cooperative work together as friends and see it is their essential task to work for the common good in the village. Mention should be made of the Roggenstede mortgage bank on both sides. This was founded around 1905.

Commerce and Tourism

If the original craftsmen such as huusmaker, blacksmith, painter / glazier, restaurant, weaver, shoemaker, tailor have disappeared, then in recent years a building contractor, hairdressing salon, heating / sanitary company, restaurant with guest house, hand weaving and felting, service providers and me -AG established.

Tourism has expanded continuously for years . 18 households currently offer holiday apartments or rooms. Beds are also kept ready in buildings that have been bought or newly constructed by outside people. Most of the landlords work with 'Touristik GmbH Dornum'.

Trivia

The village holds a German record: it is surrounded by 213 wind turbines.

Literature / sources

Mammen, Hartwig [Hrsg.]: Roggenstede, sources and finds from his history , Roggenstede 2000, ISBN 3-931641-06-6 [Contributions to the history of the village of Roggenstede, copy of the parish registers of the Protestant Lutheran parish of Roggenstede, copy of the school chronicle the former elementary school Roggenstede]

Web links

Commons : Roggenstede - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 264 .
^ Dietrich Diederichs-Gottschalk : The Protestant written altars of the 16th and 17th centuries in northwest Germany . Verlag Schnell + Steiner GmbH, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-7954-1762-8 , pp. 135 ff.
^ Ingeborg Nöldeke: Hidden treasures in East Frisian village churches - hagioscopes, rood screens and sarcophagus lids - overlooked details from the Middle Ages . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7308-1048-4 , p. 79 f.
↑ Michael Ashelm: Windigeshops, in: FAZ No. 233, October 7, 2017, p. 21.

[1] 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 264 .

[2] Dietrich Diederichs-Gottschalk : The Protestant written altars of the 16th and 17th centuries in northwest Germany . Verlag Schnell + Steiner GmbH, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-7954-1762-8 , pp. 135 ff.

[3] Ingeborg Nöldeke: Hidden treasures in East Frisian village churches - hagioscopes, rood screens and sarcophagus lids - overlooked details from the Middle Ages . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7308-1048-4 , p. 79 f.

[4] Michael Ashelm: Windigeshops, in: FAZ No. 233, October 7, 2017, p. 21.