Misselwarden

Misselwarden Misselwarrn ( Low German ) Community Wurster North Sea Coast
Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 26 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	0 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.32 km²
Residents :	426  (2017)
Population density :	41 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2015
Postal code :	27639
Area code :	04742
Location of Misselwarden in Lower Saxony
Misselwarden in the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast

Misselwarden ( Low German Misselwarrn ) is a village in the municipality Wurster North Sea coast in Lower Saxony Cuxhaven .

geography

location

Misselwarden is located on the North Sea coast in the marshland in the Land Wursten region .

Neighboring places

	Padingbüttel
	Wremen	Mulsum

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history

Aerial photo from 2012

Brick church in Misselwarden, Romanesque and late Gothic

→ For the history of the region before 1866 see: History of Hadeln and Wursten
→ For the history of the region after 1866 see: History of the district of Cuxhaven

Misselwarden was mentioned as a wurt with the double name "Midlistan-Fadarwurde" for the first time around 860 together with a number of other places in the region between Ems and Elbe in a record of Archbishop Ansgar about miraculous healings at Willehad's grave .

The area of ​​Misselwarden, like the whole of Wursten, was settled by Frisians since the 8th century after the Saxons had left the area.

At Misselwarden in 1505 the “Wurster Arbitrariness” was decided by the Frisian men , a constitution for the country of Wursten.

Incorporations

In the course of the regional reform in Lower Saxony , which took place on March 1, 1974, the localities Misselwarden, Cappel , Midlum , Padingbüttel, Dorum , Mulsum and Wremen merged to form the municipality of Land Wursten .

On January 1, 2015, the joint municipality of Land Wursten and the municipality of Nordholz formed the new municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast in the district of Cuxhaven.

Population development

year Residents source 1824 00- 0¹ 1848 0602² 1910 542 1925 572 1933 579 1939 544 1950 967 1956 722 1973 521 1975 0493 ³

year Residents source 1980 514 ³ 1985 524 ³ 1990 524 ³ 1995 512 ³ 2000 471 ³ 2005 482 ³ 2010 445 ³ 2014 412 ³ 2017 4260 0 0 0

¹ 39 fire places (including Misselwardener Altendeich, Misselwardener Niederstrich with windmill and Wiedenweg)
² in 107 houses (entire parish of Misselwarden)
³ on December 31st

politics

City council and mayor

At the municipal level, Misselwarden is represented by the council of the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast.

See also : Wurster North Sea Coast - Politics

Mayor

The mayor of Misselwarden is Werner Blohm. His deputy is Dieter Kessener ( SPD ). The term of office runs from 2016 to 2021.

coat of arms

The design of the municipal coat of arms of Misselwarden comes from the heraldist and coat of arms painter Albert de Badrihaye , who designed around 80 coats of arms in the district of Cuxhaven.

	Blazon : "In blue a golden bell hangingon a beam with the year 1459. "
	Founding of the coat of arms: The bell, cast in 1459, is a symbol of the municipality, as it is the oldest and largest bell in the Wursten country .

Culture and sights

Buildings

See also : List of architectural monuments in Wurster North Sea Coast - Misselwarden

• The St. Catherine's Church stands on a church mound of the 13th century in the town center. She owns the "Gloriosa" bell, cast by Ghert Klinghe in 1459 , which became the coat of arms of the Misselwarden community. In the church there is an altar made by Jürgen Heitmann in 1671.
• The old pastor's house is in Misselwarden. It was used for events. After a fire in 2010, it was rebuilt by donations until 2012.

• The St. Catherine's Church and its wall paintings
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Associations and associations

• Citizens for the preservation of the old pastor's house in Misselwarden e. V.
• Misselwarden Hunting Association
• Misselwarden shooting club
• Misselwarden social association
• Misselwarden theater group

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Gustav von der Osten (1866–1923), historian, teacher, high school director and local researcher
• Dorothea von der Osten (1896–1985), photographer

Personalities associated with the place

• Ghert Klinghe (around 1400 – after 1474), ore caster, in 1459 he created the "Gloriosa" bell of the local St. Katharinen Church
• Annelies Schwarz (* 1938), teacher, freelance painter and writer, lives in Misselwarden

Myths and legends

• Harmsbüttel's dog
• The Misselwarden bell casting
• The ox trade
• The haunted store
• The little clay graves near Misselwarden
• Faithful to death
• Johann Dürel's prosperity
• Wollf from the Wollfsburg

literature

• Hans-Joachim Hinners: The inhabitants of Misselwarden 1680-1900 . Bremerhaven 1987.
• Fritz Hörmann, Ude Meyer, Christian Morisse, Eberhard Nehring, Irmgard Seghorn, Egon Stuve, Else Syassen: Wesermünde field names collection - the field names of the property tax cadastre from 1876 . Ed .: Kulturstiftung der Kreissparkasse Wesermünde (=  new series of special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elb- und Wesermuende eV Volume 27 ). Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1995, ISBN 3-931771-27-X , p. 15 ([ digitized version ( memento of October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )] [PDF; 431 kB ; accessed on October 23, 2019]).
• Friedhelm Bartels, Birgit Deppe, Renate Grützner, Wolfgang Köthe, Wilfried Kuhl: Land Wursten and Nordholz - yesterday & today - Wurster North Sea coast . Kellner Verlag, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95651-128-8 .
• Matthias Dichter: The Misselwarden church bell "Gloriosa". A legendary medieval bell from the workshop of Ghert Klinghe . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 838 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven October 2019, p. 2–3 ( digitized version [PDF; 3.9 MB ; accessed on October 28, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Misselwarden  - collection of images

• Website of the spa administration
• Aesthetic field research: Misselwarden - St. Katharinen Church
• Two villages stood in the way: Schmarren and Solthörn had to give way in 1967 to the construction of the new dike

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Friedhelm Bartels, Birgit Deppe, Renate Grützner, Wolfgang Köthe, Wilfried Kuhl: Land Wursten and Nordholz - yesterday & today - Wurster North Sea coast . Kellner Verlag, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95651-128-8 , pp. 224 .
2. ↑ Overview map of the Cuxhaven district. In: cuxland-gis.landkreis-cuxhaven.de. November 2016, accessed March 25, 2020 .  
3. ↑ Friedhelm Bartels, Birgit Deppe, Renate Grützner, Wolfgang Köthe, Wilfried Kuhl: Land Wursten and Nordholz - yesterday & today - Wurster North Sea coast . Kellner Verlag, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95651-128-8 , pp. 35 .
4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the community Wurster North Sea Coast, district Cuxhaven . In: Niedersächsische Staatskanzlei (Ed.): Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt (Nds. GVBl.) . No.  26/2012 . Hanover November 8, 2012, p. 428 , p. 2 ( digitized version ( memento of July 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 454 kB ; accessed on May 9, 2019]).
5. ^ Friedrich Jansen: Statistical Manual of the Kingdom of Hanover (=  Statistical Manuals for the Kingdom of Hanover ). Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Celle 1824, p. 410 ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed October 28, 2019]).
6. ↑ Friedrich W. Harseim, C. Schlüter: Statistical Handbook for the Kingdom of Hanover (=  Statistical Handbooks for the Kingdom of Hanover ). Schlüter'sche Hofbuchdruckerei, Hanover 1848, p. 146 ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed October 28, 2019]).
7. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Register of local authorities Germany 1900 - Lehe district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed March 25, 2020 .  
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wesermünde district ( see under: No. 62 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
9. ↑ ^{a b} Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p.  192 ( digitized version ).
10. ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 48 , Wesermünde district ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on June 3, 2020]).
11. ^ Municipalities in Germany by area and population. (XLSX; 895 kB) See under: Lower Saxony, No. 1926 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 1975, accessed on June 12, 2019 .  
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on October 28, 2019 .  
13. ↑ Mayor. In: Website of the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .  
14. ↑ ^{a b} Landkreis Wesermünde (Ed.): Coat of arms of the Landkreis Wesermünde . Grassé Offset Verlag, Bremerhaven / Wesermünde 1973, ISBN 3-9800318-0-2 .
15. ↑ The sagas of the land of Wursten - Der Hund von Harmsbüttel on YouTube , accessed on August 6, 2020.
16. ↑ The sagas of the country of Wursten - The Misselwardener Glockenguss on YouTube , accessed on August 6, 2020.
17. ↑ Eberhard Michael Iba (Ed.): Hake Betken siene Duven. The saga of the Elbe and Weser estuaries (=  special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund at the Elbe and Weser estuaries . Volume 16 ). 3. Edition. Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1999, ISBN 3-931771-16-4 .
18. ↑ The sagas of the country sausages - the ox trade on YouTube , accessed on August 12, 2020.
19. ↑ The sagas of the land of Wursten - The Spook in Storage on YouTube , accessed on August 12, 2020.
20. ↑ The sagas of the land of Wursten - The little glue graves near Misselwarden on YouTube , accessed on August 6, 2020.
21. ↑ The sagas of the land of Wursten - true to death on YouTube , accessed on August 12, 2020.
22. ^ The sagas of the country Wursten - Johann Dürel's prosperity on YouTube , accessed on August 6, 2020.
23. ↑ The sagas of the country Wursten - Wollf von der Wollfsburg on YouTube , accessed on August 12, 2020.