Field (Westerstede)

Field community Westerstede Coordinates: 53 ° 17 '24 "  N , 7 ° 55' 12"  E
Residents :	130  (2003)
Postal code :	26655
Area code :	04488

Felde is a district of Westerstede , the district town of the Lower Saxon district of Ammerland . It is located in the north of Westerstede and had 130 inhabitants in 2003.

history

Baptist prayer house in Felde

The history of Feld, like that of Moorburg , is closely linked to Hollwege , whose farmers once owned the area. Here, too, a hill with a Landwehr was built to protect against attacks by the East Frisians . Although there is no documentary evidence of this facility, the remains of a rampart and moat can still be seen between the field and the moor castle. Excavations by the archaeologist Dieter Zoller confirmed the existence of this so-called "Friesenschanze", which today gives its name to a street in Felde.

The settlement of the boggy lowland area did not begin until later, when mostly hiring men from the Hollweger farmers moved to the field as mutt . The original name of the settlement was "Up'n Feld" ( Low German for Auf dem Feld ) or "Zum Felde". In 1679, eight mutt locations are recorded in the Oldenburg contribution register.

In 1850 the Baptists built a house of prayer in Felde and laid out a cemetery on his property . There is also the grave of the Baptist lay preacher and farmer Frerich Bohlken , who played a not inconsiderable role in the introduction of civil marriage in the then Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . Today the prayer house is the oldest of its kind in continental Europe and is a listed building . While the community life of the Baptists has shifted to the church built in the city center of Westerstede, the fields prayer house is used for special church events and as a cemetery chapel.

traffic

In Felde there is an airfield with a license for aircraft up to 2 t. The connection to the local public transport is provided by lines 1, 2 and 4 of the Westerstede Citizens Bus Association as well as lines 266 (Westerstede– Bredehorn ) and 353 (Westerstede– Halsbek ) operated by Weser-Ems Bus .

literature

• Hermann Ries: Chronicle of the community Westerstede . Plois Verlag, Westerstede 1973.

Web link

• Brief portrait on the website of the city of Westerstede

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief portrait of Feld on the website of the city of Westerstede
2. ↑ Pictures from the "Wehlen" area on www.hollwege.com
3. ^ Gregor Helms: Article Bethaus in: 100 times Lower Saxony. Church and Culture (edited by Hans Otte and Ronald Uden on behalf of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony ), Hanover 2011, ISBN 978-3-7752-6160-9 , pp. 142f