Marienhafe
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Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ' N , 7 ° 16' E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Aurich | |
| Joint municipality : | Brookmerland | |
| Height : | 0 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 4.06 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 2397 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 590 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 26529 | |
| Area code : | 04934 | |
| License plate : | AUR, NOR | |
| Community key : | 03 4 52 017 | |
| Community structure: | 2 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Am Markt 10 26529 Marienhafe |
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| Mayoress : | Beate Kappher greeting ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the community Marienhafe in the district of Aurich | ||
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The spots Marienhafe is a town and administrative center in the brookmerland in the district of Aurich in East Friesland . Marienhafe is one of the smallest communities in Lower Saxony .
The district of Tjüche north of the town center belongs to the municipality .
geography
Marienhafe is located in the western part of the East Frisian peninsula, around 20 kilometers northeast of Emden and 10 kilometers southeast of the north . It borders the municipality of Osteel in the northwest , the municipality of Leezdorf in the northeast, the municipality of Rechtsupweg in the east, the municipality of Upgant-Schott in the south, and the municipality of Werdenum in the southwest . The Abelitz rises near Marienhafe, flows into the Alte Greetsieler Sieltief and connects the place with the East Frisian waterway network.
history
The village of Marienhafe was founded as Marienhoff in 1424 due to a Bremen arbitration award . The church there has been around since the 13th century . It was known because of the originally 80 meter high box-shaped tower and its three naves . The tidal flats " Leybucht " and "Kuipersand" (located in front of Marienhafe in the mouth of the Ems or in the transition to the North Sea ) take their name from the old three-aisled Marienhafer church. Its tower and all three naves were covered on the north side with copper ("Kuiper" = Frisian-Dutch for copper) and on the south side with slate ("Ley" = old German for slate), so that the church from the sea through the changing view on the copper and slate page for initiates an indication of the even at low tide passable permanent creeks were and other areas of water. Without this special knowledge, the place and its tide-dependent port were impregnable from the sea.
The importance of the church as a navigation mark declined after the end of the Middle Ages due to the shifting of the coastline . Marienhafe is now inland and no longer has a port . Both the tower and the naves of the church were therefore drastically reduced in size in 1829 in view of the high maintenance costs of the structure. The St. Jacobi Church (Hamburg) (without its current pointed spire) gives an impression of the original size of the tower and main nave of the Marienhafer church.
The pirate Klaus Störtebeker is said to have found shelter here in the late 14th century . For this he reciprocated in the battle of the chiefs of Brookmerland for supremacy in East Frisia.
On July 1, 1972, the municipality of Tjüche was incorporated.
religion
The St. Mary's Church was originally a three-aisled basilica with a transept and a six-story tower . It used to be considered the largest church in East Frisia . In 1829 the building was demolished except for the central nave, with a 250 meter long sandstone frieze consisting of 124 individual images , which was located directly under the roof, was also destroyed. The tower, which has now been reduced to four floors, was once an important sea mark. The important organ that Gerhard von Holy completed in 1713 is still almost completely preserved .
Originally the old Brookmerland belonged to the provost of Hinte in the diocese of Münster . In 1250 the Brookmerland was separated from the diocese of Munster by an atonement treaty and placed under the episcopal official. The parishes of Blaukirchen (Südwold), Burhafe (belonging to Ihlow Monastery around 1500), Engerhafe, Floritz, Marienhafe and Wiegboldsbur were involved. Later other parishes joined.
The New Apostolic Church has its community center on Kirchstrasse.
politics
City council and mayor
The council of the Marienhafe community consists of 13 councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population of 2001 up to 3000 inhabitants. The 13 council members are elected for five years each by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.
The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:
| Political party | Proportional votes | Number of seats | Change voices | Change seats |
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| SPD | 53.9% | 7th | −1.6% | 0 |
| Brookmer Voting Association (BWG) | 28.1% | 4th | −1.3% | +1 |
| CDU | 14.0% | 2 | + 0.7% | 0 |
The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 51.7%, below the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous local election on September 11, 2011, the turnout was 49.8%.
Mayor Beate Kappher-Gruß from the SPD was re-elected in 2016.
coat of arms
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Blazon : “Divided by red and gold; above a growing golden eagle with golden crowns on the head and the two tips of the wings; below a red anchor between two fallen red cups. " |
The district president in Aurich approved the municipality's coat of arms on August 28, 1962. The eagle shown as a bust is taken from the coat of arms of the tom Brok family of chiefs . The anchor indicates that Marienhafe was a place of refuge for the Vitalienbrüder in the Middle Ages . The two cups are intended to remind of their leader Klaus Störtebeker, who is said to have had two overturned cups in the coat of arms.
Community partnerships
Marienhafe has a partnership with Melksham , UK , a small trading town (23,000 inhabitants) on the banks of the Avon in west Wiltshire . The partnership is mainly maintained by private individuals.
Culture and sights
On the market square south of the church there is a memorial that commemorates the pirate Klaus Störtebeker . The bronze sculpture was designed by the Leer-based sculptor Karl-Ludwig Böke based on the Störtebeker etching by Daniel Hopfer and inaugurated on June 27, 1992. The local cemetery is located around the church. Marienhafe mainly consists of a closed residential area, in the town center there are smaller shops and restaurants. Due to the dense development, Marienhafe has merged with the neighboring towns of Osteel and Upgant-Schott , which also belong to the joint community of Brookmerland.
Since July 4th 1999 Marienhafe has been represented in the Guinness Book of Records with the entry "City with the longest tea table in the world" . On that day, over 3000 people gathered in the town center to sit down at the 620-meter-long table and to perform the East Frisian tea ceremony . The nearby city of Norden later tried to break the record, but failed with this venture. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the record, the Marienhafer set up another Guinness book world record, in which 1878 people disguised themselves as pirates. This surpassed the previous pirate world record at Heidepark Soltau with 1140 pirates.
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Regular events
Every three years in summer, the so-called Störtebeker open-air theater takes place in Marienhafe for three and a half weeks in the Low German language. The market square will be redesigned in the Middle Ages for several weeks. The games are run by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostfriesisches Volkstheater e. V. directed. The content-related actions change with each new game year.
Another highlight in community life is the annual Störtebeker street festival . This takes place every year on the first Saturday of June. On the shopping street and around the market square, numerous local clubs offer self-made goods and games. In the evening there is a music program with several live bands.
Sports
The Kempa Brookmerland Championships are known nationwide . The handball tournament has been organized by the handball department of TuRa Marienhafe 46 e. V. takes place at the end of each year in the Kurt-Knippelmeyer-Halle. Not only club teams, but also leisure teams can take part in the tournament. At the 24th edition of the tournament in 2009, 101 teams and 1182 players were able to record the highest participation ever. The tournament ends with a tent festival in front of the Kurt-Knippelmeyer-Halle.
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
As the center of the Brookmerland community, Marienhafe has all the facilities in the town center that meet daily needs. There are also a number of specialist shops as well as hotel and restaurant facilities.
traffic
The community is on the federal highway 72 between the old district town of Norden and Georgsheil ; also on Landesstraße 26 from Osterupgant (in the east of Marienhafe) to Werdenum . There is also a train station in Marienhafe on the Rheine – Norddeich Mole railway line between Emden and Norddeich Mole . Since December 15, 2013 Marienhafe, which was previously the only train station between Oldenburg and Norddeich only served by local traffic, has been a long-distance stop. It is approached by the Intercitys Norddeich Mole - Leipzig (/ Cottbus ) and the regional express Norddeich Mole - Oldenburg - Hanover , the Intercitys Norddeich Mole - Cologne - Koblenz (- Stuttgart ) run through without stopping. The IC between Norddeich and Bremen can be used at local transport tariffs.
education
The joint community of Brookmerland and the community of Südbrookmerland have been running a joint integrated comprehensive school at two locations with the “IGS Marienhafe-Moorhusen” since the 2016/17 school year . The long-term plan is to provide schooling for years 5–8 at the Moorhusen site and for years 9–13 in Marienhafe. In the current school year (2016/17) only the 5th year is in Moorhusen. In the summer of 2015, the school received an upper school level . The IGS Marienhafe (official name 2009-2016) developed from 2009 on from the Brookmerland school center, which included a secondary school , a secondary school and a special school .
Personalities
- Wilhelm Schomerus (* 1864 in Marienhafe, † 1943 in Aurich), Lutheran theologian, general superintendent of Aurich
- Hilko Wiardo Schomerus (* 1879 in Marienhafe, † 1945 in Halle / Saale), ev. Theologian, missionary and religious scholar, Indologist
- Georg Peters (* 1908 in Marienhafe, † 1992 in Norden), politician
- Hans-Werner Pickel (* 1948 in Wilhelmshaven, † 2014 in Marienhafe), SPD politician
literature
- Eberhard G. Neumann: Contribution to the building history of the church in Marienhafe. In: The St. Marien Church of the Ev.-luth. Marienhafe community. Norden, undated
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 264 .
- ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 31, 2016.
- ↑ a b Samtgemeinde Brookmerland - municipal council election Marienhafe 2016 , accessed on December 31, 2016.
- ↑ hna.de: Local elections: All information, all results , accessed on December 31, 2016.
- ↑ on-online.de: A woman leads the council , accessed on December 31, 2016.
- ↑ Harm Bents, Peter Seidel, local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape : Marienhafe, Samtgemeinde Brookmerland, district Aurich (PDF; 944 kB), accessed on September 4, 2012.
- ↑ Sister City Melksham , accessed on April 30 of 2019.
- ^ Kempa Brookmerland Championships - The Tournament , accessed January 11, 2013
- ↑ IGS MARIENHAFE - MOORHUSEN - Integrated comprehensive school. In: igs-marienhafe.de. Retrieved September 5, 2016 .
Leezdorf | Marienhafe | Osteel | Rechtsupweg | Upgant bulkhead | Willum
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