Halsbek

Halsbek City of Westerstede Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ′ 51 ″  N , 7 ° 55 ′ 15 ″  E
Height :	10 m above sea level NN
Residents :	876  (Jul. 2011)
Postal code :	26655
Area code :	04488
Location of Halsbek in Lower Saxony

Halsbek is a district of Westerstede , the district town of the Lower Saxon district of Ammerland and is located about 8 km north of the city center on the border with the district of Friesland . The localities of Hoheliet and Kielburg also belong to the administrative district of Halsbek .

history

Halsbek is an old Eschdorf and was first mentioned in a document in 1428. In the Oldenburg Contribution Register of 1679, four househusband and nine mutt positions are mentioned here , as well as three hiring men .

In the Middle Ages, Halsbek was on the border with the Frisian Wehde . To protect against raids by the Frisians , a Landwehr was built to the north , although it lost its importance when the Wehde fell to the Counts of Oldenburg in the middle of the 15th century . In the Middle Ages the only road in the village was the connection from Kielburg to Neuchâtel .

The formerly rural structure of Halsbeck changed in the course of the last century to a closed residential area. Commercial businesses and tree nurseries typical of the Ammerland settled on parts of the previously purely agricultural areas . The infrastructure of the village grew with the population . The elementary school in Halsbek, founded in 1720, now serves as a primary school for Halsbek and the surrounding villages. On May 10, 1959, the Christ Church of the Protestant parish of the city of Westerstede in Halsbek was consecrated. A cemetery is attached to the church.

Halsbek took part in the competition Our village has a future several times . In 2004 the village was the Lower Saxony state winner and received the silver medal at the federal level. In 2011, Halsbek was the winner in the district competition.

traffic

Halsbek is connected to public transport by lines 266 ( Bredehorn –Halsbek – Westerstede) and 353 (Halsbek – Westerstede) of the VBN as well as by lines 1 and 2 of the Westersteder Citizens' Bus Association .

Personalities

• Frerich Bohlken (1812–1871), farmer and Baptist pioneer in Ammerland, whose name was associated with the introduction of civil marriage in the then Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . His grave is in the Baptist cemetery in Felde .

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. ↑ ^{a b} Brief portrait of Halsbeck on the website of the city of Westerstede. Retrieved January 2, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Church portrait on the website of the Evangelical Church Community Westerstede. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 6, 2013 ; Retrieved April 4, 2013 . 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.  
3. ↑ Final report of the village competition 2004 (PDF, 6.5 MB) Retrieved on April 4, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Halsbek with success in the village competition. In: NWZOnline.de. June 23, 2011, accessed April 4, 2013 .