Bokel (Wiefelstede)

Bokel municipality Wiefelstede Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ′ 55 ″  N , 8 ° 8 ′ 7 ″  E
Height :	17 m above sea level NN
Residents :	716  (December 31, 2017)
Postal code :	26215
Area code :	04402
Location of Bokel in Lower Saxony

Former windmill in Bokel (2019)

Bokel is a district of the municipality of Wiefelstede in the Ammerland district in Lower Saxony .

Geography and transport links

The peasantry is about 3 km southeast of Wiefelstede. The L 824 crosses the village and offers a good connection to Wiefelstede and also to the city of Oldenburg . Bokel is served on weekdays by the VBN bus route 330 Conneforde –Wiefelstede – Oldenburg .

Bokeler Castle

The Bokeler Castle (1531 Bokelerborch ), located in an easterly direction, near Rastede , is a ring wall on the Frisian Heerstraße . It is the oldest above-ground cultural monument in the Ammerland. The oval castle square with an area of ​​55 × 65 m was laid out around 850 AD. It was a place of refuge and meeting place for the surrounding population, but it was also manned by a guard who controlled the Frisian military route. In the early Middle Ages this was the seat of court for the entire Ammergau , later only for the Rastede office . There is some evidence that Bokeler Castle was the center of power for the first Oldenburg Count Huno to be known by name . It would be the nucleus of the County of Oldenburg . At the beginning of the 19th century, the ring wall was largely leveled, as a survey by CFAO von Negelein around 1831 showed. In 1989 the double ramparts were extensively restored.

Tell of the treasure of the Bokeler Castle

On Midsummer Eve from June 23rd to 24th, the treasure buried in the middle of the circle may show itself once on the surface. And then it is time to act carefully and quickly. One such night a farmer from the area passed the old ring wall and saw the treasure glittering in the moonlight in the middle. Resolutely, he strode up to it and placed his iron ax, which he had inherited from his father, on the gold. The coins on which the ax was lying could now be easily removed and stuffed into his hat with the ax. Then he left the wall with a quick but sure step. Behind him it began to riot and noise, as if the gates of hell had been opened, but the farmer walked straight on to Bokeler Esch and did not look around. He was soon a good part of the way when the noise behind him slowly subsided. When it was finally completely dry, the farmer dared a furtive look back. But he would have preferred not to do that, because like a clap of thunder the raging began again. At the same time, the farmer's hat became strangely light. Less consciously than out of sheer premonition, he ducked his head with a jerk. The coins flew by a hair's breadth past his temple, followed closely by his father's ax, which drove its edge so powerfully into a nearby tree trunk that it could hardly be pulled out again.

• Picture gallery: Remains of the ring wall of the Bokeler Castle
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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annual statistical report for 2017 of the municipality of Wiefelstede. Retrieved January 2, 2019 . 
2. ^ Dieter Zoller : The Bokelerburg. A ring wall on the North Oldenburg Geest. 1970