Nesserland
Nesserland is a former peninsula and island, which became part of the city of Emden and the port through dykes . It is located in the Port Arthur / Transvaal district .
history
Until the beginning of the 16th century, the area belonged to the historical Rheiderland region as the Nesse peninsula in the Ems , before it was separated from it in 1509 by the Second Cosmas and Damian Floods . From then on, Nesserland was an island in front of the port city of Emden, which was around 200 hectares in size at the beginning of the 17th century . In the south of the island was the village of Nesse, consisting of about a dozen houses and a pastorate. There were seven houses there in 1834; in 1855 there were only three. In the 19th century, Nesserland merged with the city of Emden due to the silting up of the old arm of the Ems and dikes. Today Nesserland is in the Port Arthur / Transvaal district and is part of the Emden outer harbor.
Church, cemetery and stone house
In Nesse there was a Nicolaikapelle mentioned in a document in 1387. In the 15th century, the inhabitants of the village built on a preserved until today mound a tuff church with free-standing bell tower. After severe storm surge damage during the February flood of 1825 , the church had to be demolished in 1827. The former cemetery, which from then on served as a cemetery for the homeless , was preserved, where the corpses of victims of strandings , shipwrecks or other drowned victims washed up on the coast were buried in a Christian style. The last funeral took place on the site in 1958. The cemetery then overran, before it was renovated in 2009 for 45,000 euros and provided with a notice board.
To the south of the church stood a stone house known as Villa Ness . This was captured by Hamburg troops in 1437 during a punitive expedition against the support of piracy by the East Frisian chiefs and then had it destroyed. The building materials obtained from this, such as the stones, were brought to Emden by the Hamburgers to strengthen the city's defenses. In 1921 workers came across the foundations of the building when removing clay for the Emden-Knock sea dike. An archaeological follow-up investigation showed that the building was founded on four brick pillars and thus has great similarities with stone houses in the Dutch part of the Rheiderland.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Heiner Schröder: Friedhof-Nesserland-will-be-a-terp again . Ostfriesen-Zeitung . September 3, 2009. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 56.5 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 12.4 ″ E