Appingen
Appingen is a residential area in the East Frisian municipality of Krummhörn that emerged from a village. Until the Reformation, the place was the seat of the monastery of the same name .
history
Appingen was created on the north bank of what was then the Bay of Sielmönken on an early medieval terp . The later village probably developed around a courtyard during the Middle Ages. By the 14th century at the latest, Appingen was a chieftain's seat and church village, whose church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary . In the Middle Ages, the place was the ancestral seat of the Cirksena family , who later provided the counts and princes of East Frisia . After the Leybucht was dammed , Appingen lost its importance as a trading center. As a result, the Cirksena relocated to the prosperous port of Greetsiel . As a result, most of the residents moved to Sielort. In 1437, the Cirksena donated the declining parish church to the Carmelite Order , who built a monastery there. This was Balthasar of Esens at one of his many feuds with the Counts of East Friesland in 1530 pillage, but not how the nearby monastery Dykhusen , completely destroy the Dominican order. The order had the monastery restored and in 1531 also took in the nuns of Dykhusen. In the period after that, the monastery was secularized and from 1545 leased by the Counts of East Friesland. A farm remained from the former village of Appingen, which today belongs to the Krummhorn district of Visquard . Today there are four houses in the place. One of them is the agricultural estate of Kloster Appingen . There is also the former Appinger Huus farm , a so-called workers' house that belongs to the domain, and another former, smaller farm.
Development of the place name
The place is mentioned for the first time in 1401 as "Appungum". The place name goes back to the family name Appinga.
literature
- Günther Leymann: Domain of the Appingen Monastery. An agricultural historical study over 600 years of a marshland in the western part of East Frisia . In: Gerhard Steffens (Ed.): The eight and their seven sluices . Vol. 2 .; 2nd edition Leer 1987.
- Hemmo Suur: History of the former monasteries in the province of East Friesland: An attempt . Hahn, Emden 1838, p. 125 (reprint of the edition from 1838, Verlag Martin Sendet, Niederwalluf 1971, ISBN 3-500-23690-1 ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Rüther: House building between national and economic history. The Krummhörn farmhouses from the 16th to the 20th century . Diss. Münster 1999, p. 71 online (PDF file, 297 pages; 1.8 MB)
- ↑ Appingen.de: Geschichte , accessed on December 17, 2011.
- ↑ Historical place database Ostfriesland: Greetsiel, municipality Krummhörn, district Aurich (PDF; 67 kB). Accessed December 15, 2011
Coordinates: 53 ° 28 '58.2 " N , 7 ° 5' 23.6" E