Eickedorf

Eickedorf Municipality Grasberg Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 52 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 34 ″  E
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	28879
Area code :	04208
Location of Eickedorf in Lower Saxony

Eickedorf ( Low German Eekdorp ) today belongs to the municipality of Grasberg in the district of Osterholz .

After the district of Wörpedorf, it is the second oldest village in the municipality, which was only created in this form on March 1, 1974 as part of a local government reform.

Eickedorf is one of a series of villages that were created through the settlement and cultivation of the Teufelsmoor . After first attempts to settle on the Eickeberg around 1620 were unsuccessful, the moor settlement finally succeeded from the middle of the 18th century, whereby the Eickeberg, founded in 1753, became the second successful village in the region.

The place name is derived from an existing oak tree in the founding time. In the past, a chain of dunes had emerged along the Wörpe . One of their elevations, the Eickeberger Sandhügel, offered the first settlers temporary accommodation: “ They settled here on their own and lived like wild west people from hunting and a little fire. In ignorance of where to build their houses and out of fear of the water they had nested in the excavated sand caves of the Eickeberg ”.

The first settlers were Hinr. Müller, Dierk Müller, Cord Jagels, Joh. Bössels, Gerd Schnackenberg and Jürgen Müller. Life on the poor soils was very easy and extremely hard. Peat cutting, small livestock farming and daily wage labor helped the residents to secure the essentials of life.

Around 1818 the Eickedorfer Mühle was built on the Eickeberg. After electricity found its way into the bog villages, the windmill was demolished in 1933. The Eickedorfer Torfkahnhafen was also in the direct vicinity of the Eickeberg. So the peat deliveries destined for Bremen could be loaded directly from the peat barge. The tracks laid for the “Jan Reiners” small railway that went into operation in 1900 were also used to transport peat. A siding was laid to the peat barge harbor, as the main line ran a few hundred meters away on the other side of the body.

The Eickedorfer Räucherkate was built around 1842 and belonged to Hofstelle No. 20. The spatial division was carried out in a similar way to that of the Lower Saxon smoke house, with the dimensions of about 5.50 × 9.00 meters being considerably smaller. The hall room was made available for smoking meat products. Mainly it was ham and sausages that were preserved for a long time by the smoke. The smokehouse was thatched and the framework was lined with red adobe bricks. The few windows let only a little light into the smokehouse.

The Eickedorfer Straße in Bremen , Findorff district was named after the place.

literature

• Harry Schumm: 250 years of Eickedorf . Publishing house M. Simmering , Lilienthal 2002.
• Karl Lilienthal: Jürgen-Christian Findorff's legacy . Lilienthal, Melloh 1982. Reprint of the original edition from 1931.
• Rolf Metzing, Johann Schriefer, Fritz Westphal: Grasberg . Saade, Osterholz-Scharmbeck o.J.

Web links

• Jürgen-Christian Findorff , On the moor settlement of the region

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 244 .
2. ^ Karl Lilienthal: Jürgen Christian Findorffs Erbe . Lilienthal, Melloh 1982.