Abelitzmoor I.

Abelitzmoor I. City of Aurich Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 50 ″ N , 7 ° 30 ′ 4 ″ E
Postal code :	26607
Area code :	04941

Abelitzmoor I is a small bog colony on the northern edge of the city of Aurich in East Frisia . The place is part of the Tannenhausen district . The settlement is named after the Abelitz river .

Abelitzmoor I lies at the transition from the Geest to the high moor , which covered the northwest and northern edge of Aurich, the Tannenhausener and Meerhusener Moor. The colony was founded by the Prussian state in 1906 to cultivate the huge raised bog north and west of Tannenhausen. The work was initially done by prisoners housed in barracks. They delivered the peat to Moordorf by field train and brought back artificial fertilizer from there to fertilize the pitted areas. In addition to the barracks, five farms as well as a forge and a carpentry shop were built in Abelitzmoor I.

Plans to cultivate the large moorland northwest of Aurich had existed since the 1870s. At that time, the construction of the Abelitz-Moordorf Canal had begun, which was to serve to drain the moorland. Ultimately, the canal was even supposed to be extended to the coast near Bensersiel , thereby opening up the moorland southwest of Esens , but that never happened.

In 1935 a camp of the Reich Labor Service was built on the site of the moor administration . The young men who worked there were also used to cultivate the peatlands. The inhabitants of Abelitzmoor I and the forester's house Meerhusen, until then located in the community-free area, belonged to the community of Tannenhausen from 1939, which increased their population from 631 to 941. After the labor camp was closed, from 1942 onwards, predominantly women from the Ukraine who were forced to work were housed. They had to work for farmers in the area.

The neighboring colony Abelitzmoor II is located a few kilometers southwest of Abelitzmoor I.

Individual evidence

↑ Unless otherwise referenced, this article is based on Fritz Arends, Paul Weßels (Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft): Tannenhausen , PDF file, 11 pages, accessed on July 11, 2013.
↑ Martin Wilken: The Engerhafer-Victorburer marriage and its expansion to the Abelitz-Moordorf Canal. In Jannes Ohling (ed.): The eight and their seven sluices. Cultural, water and agricultural development of an East Frisian coastal landscape . Drainage Association Emden, Pewsum 1963, without ISBN, pp. 589–647.

[1] Unless otherwise referenced, this article is based on Fritz Arends, Paul Weßels (Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft): Tannenhausen , PDF file, 11 pages, accessed on July 11, 2013.

[2] Martin Wilken: The Engerhafer-Victorburer marriage and its expansion to the Abelitz-Moordorf Canal. In Jannes Ohling (ed.): The eight and their seven sluices. Cultural, water and agricultural development of an East Frisian coastal landscape . Drainage Association Emden, Pewsum 1963, without ISBN, pp. 589–647.