Ellen's

Ellen's Zetel municipality Coordinates: 53 ° 27 ′ 3 ″ N , 8 ° 0 ′ 31 ″ E
Height :	2 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	26340
Area code :	04453

Ellens is a district of the municipality Zetel in the district of Friesland in Lower Saxony .

location

Ellens is located in the far north-east of the municipality and is only around one kilometer from the Zetel / Blauhand motorway exit on federal motorway 29 .

history

The place Ellens is first mentioned around 1124 as a parish with the name Anaclingun. Later names are Enelinge, Alanze or Alanse. The Willehaduskirche of the parish, mentioned for the first time in 1190, was located on a geester elevation in the otherwise flat area. During the Marcellus flood of 1362 and the Antoni flood of 1511, the church was badly affected. In 1514 it is said to have been burned by mercenaries passing through. What was left of the building was finally destroyed by a storm in 1590.

After the Antoni flood, Ellens was a Geest Island in the Black Brack . The island was only about one kilometer long and 200 to 300 meters wide. At the end of the 16th century, Ellens became famous for the Ellenser Dam , named after her , which was built between 1596 and 1615. It led across the mudflats of the Schwarzen Brack and thus connected the Oldenburger Land in the south with the Jeverland in the north.

literature

Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986–1987.
Hans Egidius: The Black Brack: A region asserts itself against the forces of nature. CCV Concept Center Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-934606-00-8 .
Hermann Haiduck (Ed.): A submerged church in the Jade Bay - Archaeological excavations and investigations on the medieval church hill of Ellens , Zetel community and Jever Castle Museum, printing and publishing company H. Risius KG, Weener 2012, ISBN 978-3-88761-120- 0 .

Web links

The Black Brack and dyke construction
When "Blanke Hans" becomes a deluge (PDF; 1.21 MB)

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Haiduck: The architecture of the medieval churches in the East Frisian coastal area . 2nd Edition. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebs-GmbH, Aurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-940601-05-6 , p. 221 f .
↑ ^a ^b Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986-1987, volume 1, page 253

[1] Hermann Haiduck: The architecture of the medieval churches in the East Frisian coastal area . 2nd Edition. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebs-GmbH, Aurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-940601-05-6 , p. 221 f .

[Heimatlexikon-2] Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986-1987, volume 1, page 253