Folmhusen

Folmhusen Westoverledingen municipality Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 38 ″  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 13 ″  E
Height :	4 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	26810
Area code :	04955
Map of Westoverledingen

The school museum in Folmhusen.

The place Folmhusen is a district of the municipality Westoverledingen in East Frisia .

history

Folmhusen is one of the oldest settlement areas in the municipality. The earliest finds, such as a rock ax cut on all sides with a drill hole in the middle and rounded neck, date from the Stone Age. The place is mentioned for the first time in 1409. In the High Middle Ages Folmhusen belonged to Overledingerland, since the 15th century to Esklumer or Overledinger Vogtei in Amt Leerort, then to Amt Leer. During the Napoleonic era, the place was assigned from 1811 to 1813 to Marie Ihrhove des Cantons Leer of the Ems-Oriental department. Folmhusen then belonged to the district of Ihrhove and has been part of the district of Leer since 1885. In the course of the municipal reform of January 1, 1973 Folmhusen became a district of the municipality of Westoverledingen .

Origin of name

For the first time the place was named Wolkmedehusen in 1409 . Later the place is also called Fahouttahusum (1475) and Folmedehusen (1492). In statistics from 1823, the place appears as Volmhusen . The place name is a combination of the nickname Volmet or Volmt with the Low German word for houses.

Museums

The East Frisian School Museum Folmhusen has been based in the former school since 1987. The building was rebuilt for the second time in 1824, rebuilt again in 1879 and enlarged in 1885 and 1904. In 1963 the school was expanded to include a school pavilion.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Working group of the local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape : Folmhusen, community Westoverledingen, district of Leer (PDF; 866 kB), accessed on October 24, 2011.