Wallinghausen

Wallinghausen City of Aurich
Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 30 ″  N , 7 ° 31 ′ 10 ″  E
Height :	9 m
Area :	5.81 km²
Residents :	3323  (Jun 30, 2008)
Population density :	572 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	26605
Primaries :	04941, 04947
Location of Wallinghausen in the Aurich city area

Wallinghausen is a district of the district town Aurich in the district of Aurich in East Frisia , Lower Saxony .

history

The Aurich district of Wallinghausen is located on a ridge that stretches across East Frisia. People settled here 5000 years ago. Such a settlement was only possible on the Geest, as the East Frisian marshland and moorland were not always accessible. While laying underground cables, a 8.4 centimeter long flint ax was found, which dates from 3000 BC. BC. A stone ax of 15.3 centimeters is estimated to be 4,000 years old. When digging a plumb line in a field, plow marks were discovered that were made by a reversible plow around the time of the birth of Christ. The first documentary mention of the place name Wallinghausen is based on Friedländer's "Ostfriesisches Urkundenbuch" (1st volume 787 = 1470 document 398) in 1431.

At that time the settlement must have been very small, because in 1593, about 160 years after the first documentary mention, it had only 33 inhabitants; five stoves or places were available at that time. Wallinghausen already belonged to the Aurich "negen Loogen", of whom it is said: "Negen Loogen un een Stadt hebben tosamen een Schlötelgatt". (With Schlötelgatt - in English keyhole - is meant the lock in the entrance door of the Aurich Lamberti Church.)

The small farmers in East Friesland had their own administration centuries ago, but this only extended to the purely economic sector. In Wallinghausen, too, supervision in small communities was taken over by the building judges elected by the farmers' assemblies. They made sure that the old customary laws in force in the villages were observed. In later times these provisions were recorded in the so-called peasant roles. In the Middle Ages and thereafter, however, there were no written records of the legal provisions that could be viewed as local statutes. They were passed down orally from generation to generation, from which the term “customary law” arose.

The farmer judge set the date of the uplift to the communal pasture and determined the end of the grazing period. How many cattle each prospective buyer was allowed to raise was determined by the size of his farm. So no one could keep excessive livestock. The community pasture had to be sufficient for all the cattle in the village.

This rural self-government was particularly pronounced in the old East Frisia. When the Hanoverian authorities expanded the system of political communities in 1818, good preparatory work had already been done in the organization of the peasantry that was not known anywhere else. This also resulted in the high number of small communities in the former Aurich district, namely 64. It was not until July 1, 1972 that these political units were merged into larger communities through the regional and administrative reform in Lower Saxony. Wallinghausen came to Aurich.

There is a primary school in the village.

politics

Wallinghausen has a seven-member local council together with the Egels district .

The local mayor is Hinrich Röben (SPD).

Web links

• Wallinghausen district side

Individual evidence

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. 261 .
2. ↑ Ortsrat Egels / Wallinghausen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.