Accum

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Accum
City of Schortens
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 39 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 44 ″  E
Height : 4 m above sea level NN
Residents : 1123  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation : 1933
Incorporated into: Kniphausen
Postal code : 26419
Area code : 04423
The Accumer Mill with the Mill Barn
St. Willehad Church
Organ in St. Willehad

Accum is a district of the city of Schortens in the Friesland district in Lower Saxony . It lies between Jever and Wilhelmshaven .

history

Accum was first mentioned around 840 in a church chronicle by Archbishop Ansgar von Bremen . At that time Ackem was the usual place name, the name Accum has only been used for around 500 years.

In 1420 the church was subordinate to the Sendstuhl Jever of the Bremen cathedral dean and served as a fortress church in the feuds of Frisian chiefs during the 14th and 15th centuries. The Frisian chief Lübbe Onneken was buried here in 1476 , and in 1565 Tido von Knipens and Inhusen with his wife Eva von Renneberg, whose tomb in black marble is an example of the best Flemish Renaissance portrait sculpture in the coastal area.

Following the example of the East Frisian nobility, Tido led by Knipens and Inhusen in its territory in 1555 Reformation one. Since then, Accum has been the only Reformed church in the state of Oldenburg .

The St. Willehad Church was built in 1719 after the previous church was badly damaged by several storm surges . St. Willehad houses an organ by Arp Schnitger , of whose work the case is still preserved.

In 1746 the Accumer windmill was built, which is still operated today by an association. A second mill is said to have been located just outside Accum, in the district of Pingelei , but nothing of this has survived today.

Imperial Count Wilhelm Gustav Friedrich von Bentinck was ecclesiastically married in Accum on September 8, 1816 as the sovereign Lord of Knyphausen ( Kniphausen ) after 16 years of conscience marriage with Sara Margarethe Gerdes, a small farmer's daughter from Bockhorn. After a lengthy legal battle ( Bentinck's succession dispute ) with the Dutch-English Bentincks , the stigma of illegitimate parentage was officially removed from the sons by a contract of 1854. As a result of the contract, Accum came to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .

The previously independent municipality Accum was dissolved in 1933 and assigned to the large municipality of Kniphausen . In 1948 Accum became part of the municipality of Sillenstede , which merged in 1972 with today's city of Schortens to form the municipality of Schortens.

Accum has a special ecclesiastical meaning as it is the only Reformed congregation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg .

traffic

The state road L 814, which connects the town with Schortens and Wilhelmshaven, runs through Accum . The place is also located on the railway line Schortens Weißer Floh – Wilhelmshaven Ölweiche, which is used by freight trains .

literature

  • Hermann Lübbing: Oldenburg. Historical contours . Heinz-Holzberg-Verlag, Oldenburg 1971, ISBN 3-87358-045-4 .
  • Robert-Dieter Klee: The end of a glory. Kniphausen and Oldenburg 150 years ago . In: Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen (Ed.): Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History . tape 77 . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2005, ISBN 3-7752-3376-8 , on Bentinck's inheritance dispute , p. 187–226 ( niedersachsen.de [PDF; 8.5 MB ]).

Web links

Commons : Accum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures for the city ​​of Schortens 2018 (PDF 11.9 MB), accessed on May 26, 2019.