High guests

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High guests
Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 56 ″  N , 7 ° 24 ′ 20 ″  E
Area : 3.92 km²
Residents : 101  (1958)
Population density : 26 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 26789
Area code : 0491
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Location of Hohegaste in the city of Leer

The village of Hohegaste is a district of Leer (East Friesland) . The district extends in the west of the city along Deichstraße on the Ems from Leer (core city) to Nüttermoor and borders on Heisfelde in the east . It has a size of 392 ha. The following additional residential areas belong to the district: Horst, Heisfelder Siel, Heyenhörn and Steinhaus. The A31 runs through the middle of Hohegaste, where it crosses under the Ems with the Ems tunnel . Hohegaste is connected to the motorway through the Leer-West exit .

A wind farm with 13 Enercon E-40 wind turbines was built in Hohegaste in 1997 and operated by Windenergiepark Hohegaste GmbH & Co. KG. In 2017 the wind farm was "repowered". The 13 old systems were replaced by four Enercon 101 systems with a total of 12.2 megawatts for around 20 million euros . EWE Renewable Energies took over the wind farm in 2018. The purchase was made together with the project developer Enova, both companies now hold 50 percent of the shares.

history

The name Hohegaste comes from the location of the residential areas on the Geestrücken (Frisian: Gaste) along the Ems. There are settlement findings from the Roman Empire and the Migration Period . In 2009, during construction work for a new natural gas pipeline, traces of settlement from the period between the 1st and 5th centuries AD were found. So far, the researchers have identified storage sheds built on stilts, trenches, a footbridge and even bank reinforcements.

Already in 1550 the place was mentioned as Hohegast , hoghe Gast . On the East Frisian map of Ubbo Emmius from 1599, the place is referred to as a guest .

Until the middle of the 16th century there should have been a chapel / church and a pastorate. In 1882 Hohegaste was given 5 courtyard spaces . Around 1900 there were 79 inhabitants and in 1933 there were 96. From May to November 1939, Jewish workers from Vienna lived in five labor camps in the Leer district , including one in Hohegaste, and in the course of major construction work on the dikes at Leda , Jümme and Ems worked. It is said to have been mainly intellectuals, musicians, bankers, etc., who certainly did not do the hard work voluntarily. Many of them fell ill and were allowed to leave the camp. The camps were disbanded from October to November 1939. Eleven Jews from the Nüttermoor camp were then housed for an indefinite period in the Hohegaste camp in November and December 1939, about which nothing is known.

Towards the end of the Second World War , the Allied troops on the western Ems side moved closer. On April 26, 1945, their artillery fire was concentrated on the community of Hohegaste. Also on April 29th, Hohegaste and Nüttermoor were under heavy artillery fire. There was high property damage and several people died, including a French prisoner of war . In 1958 the population was given as 101. Until it was incorporated on January 1, 1973, Hohegaste was a separate municipality.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EWE AG: Hohegaste: Buying wind farms as team play. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ cf. Arend Remmers : From Aaltukerei to Zwischenmooren: the settlement names between Dollart and Jade , Schuster, Leer (Ostfriesland), 2004, ISBN 3796303595 , p. 204
  3. ↑ Cf. CH Jansen: Statistical Handbook of the Kingdom of Hanover , In Commission der Helwingschen Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover, 1824, p. 284.
  4. ^ Population development of Hohegaste, in: Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Leer. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. ↑ Cf. Paul Weßels : The Jewish labor camps 1939 in the district of Leer , in: Tota Frisia in Teilansichten . Hajo van Lengen on his 65th birthday, ed. by Heinrich Schmidt et al., Aurich 2005, pp. 448–471.
  6. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 262 .

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