Dringenburg

Dringenburg municipality Wiefelstede Coordinates: 53 ° 17 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 52 ″  E
Height :	17 m above sea level NN
Residents :	335  (2018)
Postal code :	26215
Area code :	04458
Location of Dringenburg in Lower Saxony

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

geography

The place, about four kilometers north of Wiefelstede, is a scattered settlement with 272 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2007). Numerous leisure facilities have been established around the small quarry ponds over the past few years , making the district known as a local recreation area .

history

The old school in Dringenburg

The memorial on Tegelbuschweg

The Dringenburg

The Dringenburg (1383 Dringenborch ) was probably built by Count Konrad I in the first half of the 14th century on the Frisian Heerstraße as a border fortress. It is a castle with a castle square and outer bailey. The entire system was about 125 × 75 meters. In 1577 the castle had already fallen into disrepair.

A six-year area excavation was carried out under Dieter Zoller in the early 1970s. The main castle was 23 × 23 meters in size, and the sides were surrounded by a palisade fence . On the Burgplatz there was a single-nave post structure with a length of 12 meters and a width of 7 meters. There was a second construction phase in which the building was removed and replaced with a building with foundation pits. There were farm buildings on the outer bailey. Two wooden bridges connected the outer bailey with the main castle. A kind of emergency bridge lay over the moat to the south.

Modern

Since 1849 there was a primary school in Dringenburg, which was closed again in 1972. On Tegelbuschweg there is a war memorial for the war dead of the First World War from the villages of Mollberg , Lehe, Hollen and Dringenburg.

Traffic and work

Dringenburger jug

Dringenburg is served by the bus route 330 of the Weser-Ems Bus from Oldenburg to Conneforde via Wiefelstede. The two stops are at the old school and at the Dringenburger Krug .

In the future, the controversial extension of the A 20 , originally planned as the coastal motorway A 22, will also lead through the Dringenburger Moor , with Dringenburg having its own motorway exit.

The largest employer is the Ammerland dairy , which has been based here since 1989 . The company, which was founded in 1885 and has over 1900 active milk suppliers, increased the milk volume to 1,155.8 million kg (2011). The Ammerländer brand is exported to over 50 countries.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Zoller : Castles and noble seats in the Ammerland. Cloppenburg 1971
2. ↑ Dieter Zoller: Dringenburg excavation, Gem. Wiefelstede, district Ammerland . In: News from Lower Saxony's prehistory . tape 43 , 1974, p. 196 ff .
3. ↑ Line definition for the A 20 at the Lower Saxony state authority for road construction and traffic . Retrieved March 23, 2012.
4. ^ Dairy Ammerland eG
5. ↑ The Ammerländer brand