Canhusen

Canhausen Parish Hinte
Coordinates: 53 ° 26 ′ 35 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 34 ″  E
Height :	0-4 m above sea level NN
Residents :	170
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	26759
Area code :	04925

Canhuser Church

The place Canhusen belongs to the municipality of Hinte and is located in East Frisia ( Lower Saxony ). The village has 170 inhabitants and is surrounded by the villages of Osterhusen , Werdenum and Loppersum .

Location, area and geology

Canhusen is a cluster of settlements. It is located about three kilometers north-northeast of the core town of the municipality. In total, the district covers an area of ​​3.94 square kilometers, most of which lie on a narrow strip of Kalkmarsch. This is surrounded by Kleimarsch in the east, south and west and reaches heights of up to 4.4 meters above sea level. The Canhuser Tief flows a few hundred meters from the town center in a north-easterly direction and flows into the Old Greetsieler Sieltief in the Canhuser district .

history

The first dykes were built around the year 1000 and Hinte was mentioned for the first time. Around 1200 there was the worst ingress of the Leybucht , the foothills of which ate their way through the country to Canhusen. In 1379 the village of Canhusen (Kanenghusen) was first mentioned in a document. At that time Canhusen owned a castle on the northwest side of the town, it belonged to the chief Folkmar Allena . After the defeat in the same year in the battle of Loppersum, the castle was destroyed by Ocko II. Tom Brok . In 1404 Ocko tom Brok gave Canhusen back to Chief Folkmar Allena. In 1417 Folkmar Allena was murdered in his castle in Osterhusen. He owned other castles in Suurhusen , Loppersum and Canhusen, which were used as refuge by pirates. With the surrender of the castles, the pirates gained wealth and prosperity. In 1498 the "Werdenumer Neuland" was diked together with Canhusen and a sewer was set up. In 1560 the predecessor of the Canhuser church was built, before the nearby Aland monastery served as a church. In 1589 the church was extended with a family crypt (Polmann) and a late Renaissance pulpit was built. In 1780, a further break in on the Leybucht created a creek (which later silted up). The priel was so important as a watercourse that two fishing families could feed on it. Above all, many commercial sailors and mudflat fishermen came through the creek.

For centuries, the natural depths and drainage channels that crisscross the Krummhörn in a dense network were the most important modes of transport. Not only the villages but also many farms were connected to the city of Emden and the port of Greetsiel via ditches and canals. The boat traffic with Emden was particularly important. Village boatmen took over the supply of goods from the city and delivered agricultural products in the opposite direction: “From the Sielhafenort, smaller ships, so-called Loog ships, transported the cargo to the inland and supplied the marsh villages (loog = village). The Loogschiffe from the Krummhörn enlivened the canals of the city of Emden into the 20th century. ”As early as 1824, the cultural historian Fridrich Arends wrote in his description of the land of the Principality of East Friesland and the Harlingerland :“ There is no office more abundant than this with water. (…) In winter and spring, the grain and other goods are always transported by water both in this and in the Greetmer office, which is extremely useful in the case of the poor dirt roads in the season. "

Peat, which was mostly extracted in the East Frisian Fehnen , played an important role as heating material for the inhabitants of the Krummhörn for centuries . The peat ships brought the material on the East Frisian canal network to the Krummhörn villages, including Canhusen. On their way back into the Fehnsiedlungen the Torfschiffer often took clay soil from the march and the manure of cattle with which they their home were dug fertilized land.

On July 1, 1972 Canhusen was incorporated into the municipality of Hinte.

Development of the place name

Canhusen is first mentioned in 1381 as Kanenghusen . The current spelling has been in use since 1719. The name is interpreted as a combination of the nickname Kane or Kano with the collective suffix -ing and the East Frisian-Low German word Husen for houses. Canhusen therefore means (among the) houses of the Kane clan .

Canhusen also still belongs to 1450 when Langewehr was first mentioned in de Langhawarra. The name is a combination of the old Frisian word lang or long for long and weir.

Population development

year	population
1821	75
1848	157
1871	125
1885	127
1905	152
1925	170
1933	181
1939	177
1946	230
1950	220
1956	166
1961	165
1970	191

Attractions

One of the sights is the Evangelical Reformed Canhus Church , which was built in 1789. An old family crypt was rediscovered during renovations in 1989. In the roof turret there is a small bell that was cast in 1508 and comes from the workshop of the bell founder Arent van Wou . The bell with a diameter of 60 cm had its original place in the former Sielmönken monastery . It bears the inscription: Maria. Augustine. Byn yk went unt int Jaer 1508 goet Arent Van Wou my .

Economy and Transport

The village is almost entirely agricultural. But there is now a larger pension and a holiday home. External jobs, especially in Emden , play a major role for the commuter location .

The connection to the regional transport network is via district roads to Hinte (main town) and Loppersum. From the last-mentioned place the federal road 210 leads to Emden.

literature

• Karl Leiner: Panorama North District . Norden 1972, pp. 85-88

Web links

• Canhusen on the homepage of the municipality of Hinte; accessed on December 31, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape: Canhusen, Hinte community, Aurich district (PDF; 19 kB), accessed on March 27, 2013.
2. ^ Harm Wiemann, Johannes Engelmann: Old streets and ways in East Friesland . Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 169 (East Frisia in the protection of the dyke; 8)
3. ↑ Fridrich Arends: Earth description of the principality of East Friesland and the Harlingerland . Emden 1824, p. 279 ff., Textarchiv - Internet Archive .
4. ^ Gunther Hummerich: The peat shipping of the Fehntjer in Emden and the Krummhörn in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies in Ostfriesland , Volume 88/89 (2008/2009), pp. 142–173, here p. 163.
5. ^ 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. 263 .
6. ↑ Canhusen can keep up with Cologne Cathedral . In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung , December 31, 2012; accessed on December 31, 2012