Friedrichsfehn

Friedrichsfehn municipality Edewecht Coordinates: 53 ° 7 '24 "  N , 8 ° 5' 37"  E
Height :	11 m
Residents :	4701  (Jun 30, 2015)
Postal code :	26188
Area code :	04486
Location of Friedrichsfehn in Lower Saxony
Place Friedrichsfehn (top center), the Wildenloh (top right), the Rote Steinwegsee and the coastal canal

Friedrichsfehn with about 4700 inhabitants, is the second largest town in the municipality Edewecht in Ammerland in Lower Saxony .

location

Friedrichsfehn is about six kilometers away from the outskirts of Oldenburg and about five kilometers from Edewecht. The town's landmark is its mixed forest - the Wildenloh . To the west the village borders on Kleefeld . In the north of the Friedrichsfehn the municipality is Bad Zwischenahn belonging Petersfehn . Both localities contain references to their founders in their names: Peter and Friedrich were brothers. This resulted in the name of the Brüderstraße, which connects the two villages with each other. In the south of the village, immediately north of the coastal canal, is the Rote Steinwegsee. To the west of it, the Neu-Friedrichsfehn settlement was built.

history

Among the in the first half of the 19th century colonized. Marshlands to the west and south of the Little counted Wildenlohs located Wildenlohsmoor. The starting point for the colonization of the Wildenlohsmoor was the construction of a road connection between Oldenburg and Edewecht that would cross the moor in a direct west-east direction. This path was completed by 1840.

As early as 1833 , Wilhelm Brand , who came from Eversten , asked for an initial add-on paint to the west of the Wildenloh and south of the new road, which was officially allocated to him. In 1838 he leased these lands with an inn to Bernhard Finnen. The “Colony behind the Wildenloh” owes its existence to these two pioneers. Their interest prompted the responsible chamber in Oldenburg to measure the area between the Krugwirtschaft (today's "Landhaus") and the former border with the Westerstede Office (today's "Fuhrkenscher Grenzweg"). In 1852, the first three colonies south of the road to Edewecht were assigned, with which the planned settlement began. To prepare for further settlements, a three-kilometer-long drainage ditch was dug to Vehne in 1854 , the so-called "Friedrichsfehn Canal". Between 1859 and 1867, further moorland areas in the direction of Klein Scharrel (today's Dorfstrasse) were allocated to 17 colonists. Accordingly, the population had increased almost tenfold between 1860 (15 people) and 1874 (130 people).

The successful founding years brought improvements in the village infrastructure. In 1875 its own school was built. From 1874 to 1895 the Edewecht - Oldenburg road was paved, which also made it easier to transport brenntorf to the Oldenburg market. In the period from 1892 to 1895 (?) It was even possible to take a horse-drawn tram from Friedrichsfehn-Brüderstraße to Oldenburg (Ofener Straße / Princessweg).

In 1882 the young farmers were expanded to include the Mosleshöhe settlement. 1897–1903 colonies were again shown in “Neu Friedrichsfehn” (today: “Roter Steinweg”). Dutch families could be recruited to settle two colonies on the Hunte-Ems Canal (today: Coastal Canal ). As a result of these expansions, the population almost doubled to 306 by 1905. In 1906 the artillery firing range of the Oldenburg Field Artillery Regiment No. 26 north of the road to Edewecht was abandoned, which enabled a permanent road connection to be built to Petersfehn after the end of the First World War . After the completion of today's Brüderstraße in the early 1930s, small settlements were shown here.

During the Second World War , 57 soldiers from the peasantry were either killed or missing. Friedrichsfehn himself remained without major building damage. Together with Kleefeld and Klein Scharrel, it was occupied by Canadian troops on May 4, 1945 without a fight. In 1945/46 the undestroyed place experienced a sharp increase in population from 653 inhabitants (1939) to 1058 inhabitants (1961) due to the influx of refugees from the eastern regions. Due to its attractive location and the proximity to Oldenburg, the demand for building land from young families that continues to this day began in the 1950s and 1960s. The municipality of Edewecht met this request by designating large-scale building areas (e.g. Sodenstich: 260 building sites; Binsenweg: 115 building sites). On the other hand, the exclusive lakeside properties in the “Roter Steinweg See” development area were controversial.

Shifting political affiliations

Until 1875 the "Colony behind the Wildenloh" belonged to the Oldenburg farmers Bloherfelde II. In 1875 the colony became independent under the name "Friedrichsvehn" (from 1891: Friedrichsfehn) and from then on belonged to the Oldenburg community of Eversten . In 1924, the Eversten community was split up and the western part including the Wildenloh became the Oldenburg community of Ofen . When this was dissolved again in 1933, Friedrichsfehn with Mosleshöhe was added to the community of Edewecht, which corresponded to the grown structures.

Origin of name

Friedrichsfehn was originally referred to as the "colony behind the Wildenloh". The current village name was chosen in 1875 in honor of the frequent Oldenburg ruler's name, Friedrich, in order to express the bond with the grand ducal house . In the moor colony (as well as in the neighboring Petersfehn) there never was a classic fen canal, despite the fact that it was named "-fehn". The term “Fehn” is derived in this case from “Fenn, Veen” , which in the Low German area describes a swampy, swampy lowland or a moor.

Folk tales

According to legend, the Wildenloh forest was created by the hand of the devil. When the first church was to be built in Oldenburg , the devil was very angry and decided to destroy it. During the night he tore a piece of forest from the area around Bad Zwischenahn (the hole left behind became the Zwischenahner Meer ) and carried it over the moor in order to bury the city. On the way he was finally surprised by the morning sun and a rooster. Startled by the birds crowing and blinded by the sunlight, he threw his heavy forest into the moor. This then resulted in the Wildenloh.

Cultural

The "Speelkoppel Friedrichsfehn" uses the gymnasium Friedrichsfehn once a year for three weeks as a Low German theater stage.

Personalities

• Horst Bösing (* 1954), German composer and music producer, lived in Friedrichsfehn from 1982 to 1983
• Wilfried Grunau (* 1958), engineer and geodesist, President of the Association of German Surveying Engineers ( VDV) and the Central Association of Engineering Associations (ZBI), holder of the Federal Cross of Merit. Lives in Friedrichsfehn since 1995

literature

• Albrecht Eckhardt (Hrsg.) (2005): History of the community Edewecht in the Ammerland . Oldenburg. Isensee. ISBN 3-89995-226-X
• Walter Wichmann, Enno Gerken, Gustav Brumund (2009): Friedrichsfehn our village: history and stories, picture chronicle. Self-published.

Web links

• www.friedrichsfehn.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures on the website of the municipality of Edewecht
2. ↑ Walter Wichmann, Enno Gerken, Gustav Brumund: Friedrichsfehn our village . 2009. p. 18
3. ↑ Homepage of the place ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Homepage Speelkoppel Friedrichsfehn