New Sankt Jürgen

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New Sankt Jürgen
Worpswede municipality
Coordinates: 53 ° 15 ′ 3 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 5 m
Residents : 851  (Dec. 31, 2010)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 27726
Area code : 04792
New Sankt Jürgen (Lower Saxony)
New Sankt Jürgen

Location of Neu Sankt Jürgen in Lower Saxony

Neu Sankt Jürgen is a part of the municipality Worpswede in the Lower Saxony district of Osterholz .

Geography and transport links

Neu Sankt Jürgen is located northeast of the core town of Worpswede. State road L 165 runs to the west .

The station Neu Sankt Jurgen is on the Moor Express (Moorexpress) . The trains only run seasonally from May to October on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from Stade via Bremervörde, Gnarrenburg, Worpswede and Osterholz-Scharmbeck to Bremen Hbf . The Hamme , a source of the Lesum, flows west of the village .

Nature reserves

There are five nature reserves to the west of the village and west of the Hamme :

history

Neu Sankt Jürgen was founded as part of the moor colonization of the Teufelsmoor in 1753. In 1791 it is stated that the number of houses is 45 with 252 inhabitants, including 166 children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. worpswede.de - Worth knowing ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 23, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.worpswede.de
  2. a b Dietrich Heinrich Stöver: Historical-statistical contributions to the closer knowledge of the states and the newer world events . Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann, Hamburg 1789, p. 341 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).