Moorburg (Westerstede)

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Moorburg
City of Westerstede
Coordinates: 53 ° 17 ′ 28 "  N , 7 ° 53 ′ 36"  E
Height : 9 m above sea level NN
Residents : 502  (2003)
Postal code : 26655
Area code : 04488

Moorburg is a district of Westerstede , the district town of the Lower Saxon district of Ammerland . It is located northwest of Westerstede on the edge of the Lengener Moor on the border with East Frisia . In 2003 Moorburg had 502 residents.

history

The Moorburg area used to belong to the Hollweger farmers and for a long time consisted only of meadows and forests. Towards the end of the 16th century, a hill with a Landwehr was built to protect against attacks by the neighboring East Frisians on the edge of the Lengener Moor. The Landwehr also served as a customs barrier on the road from Oldenburg to East Friesland.

The ski jump had a quadrangular ground plan, which gave it the popular name "castle". The name Moorburg is derived from the location as "Burg am Moor". Until 1640, the name is parallel Buttel- or bag castle used. The name suggests its use as a hostel / travel station on a very old road connection. In the past, journeys of the nobility and clergy were prepared by the Butikularius , from which the names of many resting places have been derived that end in -büttel, such as B. Brunsbüttel or Wolfenbüttel. The village was first mentioned in 1601, when an incident from 1587 was rolled out, which involved a man who was "found dead in the moor between the Beuttelborg and Leger Landt".

Only later, at about 1620 around the mostly drained from poor, marshy lowlands existing area was of mutts settled, some of Heuerleute the Hollweger house husbands were. In the Oldenburg Contribution Register of 1679 ten mutt sites are recorded in Moorburg. In 1666 about a third of the village population fell victim to the plague .

From 1738 a mail route led from Oldenburg via Moorburg through the Lengener Moor to East Friesland, which had previously passed through Apen . The Moorburg customs station also became a post office. It was not until 1838 that the sandy path was paved with stones. With the decline of the driving mail after the completion of the Oldenburg – Leer railway line in 1869, Moorburg and the old postal route also lost their importance. From it later developed the federal highway 75 , which led from the Dutch border via Oldenburg, Bremen and Hamburg on to the Baltic Sea .

traffic

The former federal highway 75, which ran through Moorburg, was downgraded to a state road in 1985 with the completion of the largely parallel highway 28 . Moorburg remained connected to the trunk road network via the Westerstede-West exit of the A 28. The former rest stop in the immediate vicinity of the motorway exit is now operated as a truck stop .

The lines 1, 2 and 4 of the Bürgerbus -Vereins Westerstede and the lines 351 (Westerstede- Ihausen -Westerstede), 353 (Westerstede- Halsbek ) and 625 (Westerstede- Remels - blank ) of the Weser-Ems bus bind Moorburg to the public transport to .

literature

  • Working group on the village history of Hollweges: Hollwege - history of an Eschdorf in the Ammerland. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1999.
  • Working group on the village history of Hollweges: Hollwege, Moorburg and Feld - in pictures from yesterday and today. Schmücker Verlag, Löningen 2005.
  • Hermann Ries: Chronicle of the community Westerstede . Plois Verlag, Westerstede 1973.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Short portrait of Moorburg on the website of the city of Westerstede
  2. ↑ Dirk Oltmanns: Van Minsch, Moor and Müs - Vertellns ut Moorborg and Hollwäg van de Oltmanns and Willers families . Ed .: Dirk Oltmanns. Self-published, Oldenburg 2012, p. 426 ff .
  3. ^ Working group on the village history Hollweges: Hollwege - history of an Eschdorf in the Ammerland . Ed .: Working group on the village history of Hollweges. Isensee, Oldenburg 1999, ISBN 3-89598-636-4 , p. 70 ff .