Heidmühle

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Heidmühle
City of Schortens
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 25 ″  N , 7 ° 56 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 4 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 8392  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code : 26419
Area code : 04461
The community center of Schortens in the district of Heidmühle
The community center of Schortens in the district of Heidmühle

Heidmühle ( Low German: Heidmöhln ) is a district of Schortens in the Friesland district in Lower Saxony . Together with Schortens, Oestringfelde and Ostiem, Heidmühle forms the center of the town with just under 14,000 inhabitants.

location

Heidmühle is located in Jeverland on the East Frisian peninsula, on the edge of the marsh . Numerous villages, such as the neighboring districts Accum and Schoost are to enter projects into the march Geest tongues , between which it formerly extensive moors - and heathlands was.

history

Heidmühle got its name from the Heidemühle , a post mill , which was moved there from Upjever in 1561 . After the construction of the railway line, many shipyard workers from Wilhelmshaven also settled here, and Heidmühle gradually developed into the town center. The first school was built in 1910, and in the 1930s it became today's town hall. Today around 8500 people live in the Heidmühle district. The eponymous mill was demolished in 1913 and sold to Apen .

On December 6, 2011, the city was officially awarded the title “State Recognized Resort” for the districts of Schortens, Heidmühle, Ostiem, Oestringfelde and Grafschaft.

Religions

traffic

Station Schortens-Heidmühle

The station Schortens-Heidmühle is located on the East Frisian coast tram .

literature

  • Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon . 3 volumes. Brune Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Wilhelmshaven 1986.
  • Heimatverein Schortens (Ed.): 75 years Heimatverein Schortens - Heimatbuch and Festschrift . 1st edition. Heiber Druck & Verlag, Schortens 2004, ISBN 3-936691-22-3 .
  • Ingeborg Nöldeke, Almut Salomon, Antje Sander: Schortens. Local history from the Middle Ages to modern times . NORA Verlagsgemeinschaft Dyck & Westerheide OHG, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86557-097-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures 2019. In: www.schortens.de. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Schortens “State Recognized Resort” certificate ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2014 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. (PDF; 44 kB), accessed on December 7, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schortens.de