Elisabethfehn
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Elisabethfehn
municipality Barßel
Coordinates: 53 ° 7 ′ 22 " N , 7 ° 44 ′ 43" E
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| Height : | 5 m | |
| Residents : | 2911 (1980) | |
| Postal code : | 26676 | |
| Area code : | 04499 | |
Location of Elisabethfehn in Lower Saxony |
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Elisabethfehn is a village in the district of Cloppenburg in the north-west of Lower Saxony (Germany) belonging to the municipality of Barßel .
history
From 1855 the construction of a fen canal (today's Elisabethfehn canal ) in the former Ostermoor created the fen settlement Hunte-Ems canal . On August 4, 1880 was by Elisabeth Pauline Alexandrine of Saxe-Altenburg , the wife of the reigning Grand Duke Nicholas Frederick Peter , Elisabethfehn called.
Sewer construction
Work on the Hunte-Ems Canal, today's Elisabethfehn Canal, began on September 22, 1855, initially by hand, and from 1872 onwards with the help of steam-powered Hodgesschen ships. In 1878 the stretch of the canal was dug up to the junction with the Friesoyther Canal. The construction costs, including all bridges and locks, amounted to 1,100,000 marks. On October 1, 1893, the full length of the Hunte-Ems Canal was completed. On March 16, 1894, it was officially handed over to its destination after 38 years of construction.
colonization
The colonization of the Hunte-Ems Canal in the area of today's Elisabethfehn Canal took place in two periods, the first from 1862 to around 1898, the second from 1898. The peat was removed with peat ships (Muttschiffen, Poggen). The first 34 colonies were officially sold to the highest bidder on October 23, 1863 in Osterhausen . The colonates were all 300 feet (90 meters) wide with varying lengths. According to a census in 1895, Elisabethfehn had 557 inhabitants.
In 1949, the residents of Elisabethfehn took a referendum to merge the school supervision of the Evangelical Schools Elisabethfehn and Barßel to join the community of Barßel, which was administratively completed in 1951. Since then, the Saterland has only consisted of the four predominantly Catholic parish parts on the Sagter Ems.
The Elisabethfehn Moor and Fehn Museum has been a station on the Route of Industrial Culture in the northwest and thus part of the European Route of Industrial Culture since 2010 .
Every year on Ascension Day a huge flea market takes place in Elisabethfehn , which is the longest flea market in Germany with around 2000 tables set up along the Elisabethfehn Canal.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Laurentius Siemer (* 1888; † 1956 in Cologne), Provincial of the Dominicans
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Metropolitan Region Bremen-Oldenburg in the Northwest eV: Route of Industrial Culture in the Northwest. Station 9: Elisabethfehn Moor and Fehn Museum ( memento from September 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on January 23, 2016
