Backemoor

Backemoor municipality Rhauderfehn Coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′ 10 ″ N , 7 ° 31 ′ 41 ″ E
Height :	2 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	26817
Area code :	04955
	Location of the municipality of Rhauderfehn in the district of Leer

St. Vincenz and St. Laurentius Church

Backemoor is a district of the municipality of Rhauderfehn in the district of Leer in East Frisia .

history

Backemoor is an old Geestdorf . It was first mentioned in a document in 1409 as Bakemoore . Around 1436 it was called Boecmora .

The church of St. Laurentius and St. Vincenz was built towards the end of the 13th century. In the 16th century it was expanded as a fortified church , as indicated by the western tower from the same century with its loopholes. The church is said to have been surrounded by ramparts and moats in the past.

A castle is said to have once stood south of the church, and Albert von Bakemoor is said to have built it. Around 1534 he was the castle commander of the ancestral castle of the Cirksenas in Greetsiel .

On January 1, 1973 Backemoor was incorporated into the new municipality of Rhauderfehn.

Religions

The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Backemoor was merged with the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Sebastian and Vincenz in Westoverledingen to form the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Vincenz in Rhauderfehn on June 1, 2012.

literature

Backemoor. Ev. Church of St. Lawrence and Vincentius. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 147.

Web links

Backemoor website

Individual evidence

↑ Dettmar Coldewey: Frisia Orientalis - data on the history of the country between Ems and Jade.
^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 262 .
↑ Ecclesiastical gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover, 4/2012, page 184 ff.

[1] Dettmar Coldewey: Frisia Orientalis - data on the history of the country between Ems and Jade.

[2] 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 262 .

[3] Ecclesiastical gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover, 4/2012, page 184 ff.