Freepsum
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Freepsum
Krummhörn municipality
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| Height : | 4 (-2.5-5) m |
| Area : | 7.34 km² |
| Residents : | 381 (Dec. 31, 2012) |
| Population density : | 52 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 26736 |
| Area code : | 04923 |
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Freepsum is a village in the municipality of Krummhörn in the Aurich district in East Frisia . The place with 381 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012) is about ten kilometers northwest of the seaport city of Emden . The heap settlement used to be an independent municipality. Today the village is one of the 19 districts of the Krummhörn , as the community is called colloquially.
geography
Freepsum is about three kilometers southeast of Pewsum, the main town of the municipality. Overall, the district covers an area of 7.34 square kilometers. The terp village was created in a bend marsh area at a height of 5 m above sea level. NHN . To the east, an area with Kleimarsch borders the clustered village. Immediately in the southeast of the village is the Freepsumer Meer , a now drained, former inland lake. The deepest point of the resulting depression, at 2.5 m below sea level, was long considered the lowest point in Germany, but has since been replaced by 3.5 m below sea level , officially measured in Neuendorf-Sachsenbande .
history
Freepsum is first mentioned in the 10th century as Fresbrahtteshem and in 1255 as Frebestum . The current place name has been in use since 1355. It is a combination of the nickname Fresbraht with -um (= home). In addition to the tribal name of the Frisians, the term Fresbraht contains the old Low German adjective braht , which means shiny (cf. English bright ).
During the Hanoverian period in East Friesia, Freepsum was part of the Emden District (1824), which included the Larrelt Bailiwick and in turn the Larrelt Sub-Bailiwick, to which Wybelsum, Twixlum, Logumer Vorwerk, Groß Midlum and Westerhusen belonged in addition to the main town and Freepsum.
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For centuries, the natural depths and drainage channels that crisscross the Krummhörn in a dense network were the most important modes of transport. Not only the villages but also many farms were connected to the city of Emden and the port of Greetsiel via ditches and canals. The boat traffic with Emden was particularly important. Village boatmen took over the supply of goods from the city and delivered agricultural products in the opposite direction: “From the Sielhafenort, smaller ships, so-called Loog ships, transported the cargo to the inland and supplied the marsh villages (loog = village). The Loogschiffe from the Krummhörn enlivened the canals of the city of Emden into the 20th century. ”As early as 1824, the cultural historian Fridrich Arends wrote in his description of the land of the Principality of East Friesland and the Harlingerland :“ There is no office more abundant than this with water. (…) In winter and spring, the grain and other goods are always transported by water both in this and in the Greetmer office, which is extremely useful in the case of the poor dirt roads in the season. "
Peat, which was mostly extracted in the East Frisian Fehnen , played an important role as heating material for the inhabitants of the Krummhörn for centuries . The peat ships brought the material on the East Frisian canal network to the Krummhörn villages, including Freepsum. On their way back into the Fehnsiedlungen the Torfschiffer often took clay soil from the march and the manure of cattle with which they their home were dug fertilized land.
In April 1919 there were so-called "bacon removals" from Emden workers, which were followed by rioting on the farm workers. Together with the Rheiderland , the district of Emden was the part of East Frisia most affected by this unrest. Workers broke into the surrounding villages in closed trains and stole food from farmers in clashes. The situation only calmed down after the deployment of the Reichswehr troops stationed in the region . As a reaction to this, resident groups were formed in almost all villages in the Emden area . The Loquard Resident Guard comprised 50 people. These had 20 weapons. The resident services were only dissolved after a corresponding decree by the Prussian Interior Minister Carl Severing on April 10, 1920.
The Emden – Pewsum – Greetsiel circuit , at which Freepsum had a stop, was shut down in May 1963 and subsequently dismantled.
On July 1, 1972, Freepsum was incorporated into the new municipality of Krummhörn.
Clock at the church
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politics
Mayor is Johannes Voss.
Culture and sights
The Freepsumer Church was built by the residents around the middle of the 13th century on the highest point of the terp.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape: Freepsum, municipality Krummhörn, district Aurich (PDF; 893 kB), accessed on December 14, 2012.
- ^ Curt Heinrich Conrad Friedrich Jansen: Statistical Handbook of the Kingdom of Hanover 1824 . P. 165 f .; Text archive - Internet Archive .
- ^ Harm Wiemann / Johannes Engelmann: Old streets and ways in East Frisia . Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 169 (East Frisia in the protection of the dyke; 8)
- ↑ Fridrich Arends: Earth description of the principality of East Friesland and the Harlingerland . Emden 1824. S. 279 ff., Textarchiv - Internet Archive .
- ^ Gunther Hummerich: The peat shipping of the Fehntjer in Emden and the Krummhörn in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies in Ostfriesland , Volume 88/89 (2008/2009), pp. 142–173, here p. 163.
- ↑ Hans Bernhard Eden: The Resident Services of Ostfriesland from 1919 to 1921. In: Emder Yearbook for Historical Country Studies of Ostfriesland , Volume 65, 1985, pp. 81-134, here pp. 94, 98, 105, 114.
- ^ 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. 263 f .
- ↑ krummhoern.de ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Municipality of Krummhörn localities
