Hopels

Hopels Municipality Friedeburg Coordinates: 53 ° 25 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 47 ′ 51 ″  E
Incorporation :	August 16, 1972
Incorporated into:	Friedeburg
Postal code :	26446
Area code :	04465
Memorial stone for the Hopels monastery

Hopels is a district of the municipality Friedeburg in the Wittmund district in East Friesland . The place that used to belong to the community of Marx was incorporated into the newly created large community of Friedeburg on August 16, 1972.

In earlier centuries Hopels was in the seclusion of the East Frisian Central High Moors . In the wasteland, the Premonstratensians founded Hopels Monastery in 1290 , which came to the Cirksena family until during the Reformation and the dissolution of the monastery landscape of East Friesland by Count Enno II . The district around Hopels became a state domain and passed to Prussia after the Cirksena died out in 1744 . Over the centuries, however, the area remained underutilized wasteland.

On July 22nd, 1765, Frederick the Great signed the Edict of Reclamation , which gave the peatland colonization in East Frisia new impetus. Hopels was one of the first new bog colonies after the edict came into force. The place was settled from 1766. The first settlers were able to use the remains of the monastery stones as building material - very atypical for bog colonies of those days when the often very poor colonists in most of the other bog colonies in the region lived in primitive plague huts.

Large parts of the Hopels district were later afforested and now form the Karl-Georgs-Forst .

The NSDAP politician Heinrich Bohnens (born January 14, 1891, † November 15, 1952 in Bielefeld ) comes from Hopels .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz de Wall: Wittmund district , self-published by the Friesland district, Jever 1977, without ISBN, p. 245.