Neuharlingersiel
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Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ' N , 7 ° 42' E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Wittmund | |
| Joint municipality : | Esens | |
| Height : | 2 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 24.55 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 973 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 40 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 26427 | |
| Primaries : | 04974, 04971 | |
| License plate : | WTM | |
| Community key : | 03 4 62 010 | |
| LOCODE : | DE NHS | |
| Community structure: | 4 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Von-Eucken-Weg 2 26427 Neuharlingersiel |
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| Mayor : | Jürgen Peters | |
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Neuharlingersiel ( Low German Neeharlingersiel ) is a municipality in the Samtgemeinde Esens in the Wittmund district in northwest Lower Saxony . The district of Neuharlingersiel has been a state-recognized North Sea spa since 1979 . The districts of Altharlingersiel and Ostbense have been classified as coastal bathing resorts since 1985. The port of Neuharlingersiel is the ferry port to the East Frisian island of Spiekeroog .
geography
Geographical location
The community is located in Harlingerland in East Frisia on the North Sea coast . The Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park , which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2009, extends along the coastline .
Neighboring communities
The municipality of Neuharlingersiel borders in the east on the North Sea resort Carolinensiel , a district of the city of Wittmund , in the southeast on the municipality Werdum , in the south on the municipality Stedesdorf and in the southwest on the city of Esens . In the north are the two offshore East Frisian islands Langeoog and Spiekeroog .
Community structure
The community Neuharlingersiel consists of the districts:
- Altharlingersiel
- Neuharlingersiel
- Ostbense and
- Seriem
history
Neuharlingersiel was first mentioned in documents in 1693. The land was won by building a dike in Harle Bay . Neuharlingersiel replaced Altharlingersiel as Sielort . Since then Neuharlingersiel has also been a port for deep-sea fishing.
In the first decades of the 18th century, a landing stage developed into a protective and transshipment port. It was foreign freighters who recognized the advantageous location of the new port and called from there to the various commercial ports on the North and Baltic Sea coasts. In order to prevent the harbor bank from breaking off, wooden planks were driven in around the harbor basin. During the period mentioned, eight berths were created for seagoing ships, which currently mostly belonged to the sailing ship type of kuffen . After the last male descendant of the East Frisian noble family of the Cirksena died in 1744 , the Kingdom of Prussia took over control of East Frisia and gave the port towns better access to international trade. Neuharlingersiel became an export and import port. East Frisian grain was mainly exported to the Scandinavian countries. On the way back, the freight ships from Neuharlingersiel transported wood from Finland and Sweden to their homeland. Warehouses and trading houses as well as processing companies such as sawmills were built in Sielort. The economic boom lasted until the last years of the 18th century.
In 1795, England blocked the Dutch ports as a result of its conflict with Napoleon , which also had a negative impact in Neuharlingersiel. After the lost battle of Jena and Auerstedt , Prussia ceded East Friesland to the Kingdom of Holland , newly founded by Napoleon, at the end of 1806 . As a result, Neuharlingersiel became a Dutch garrison town for a few years. A lieutenant , a drum and 18 soldiers took up quarters in the port until 1810. After that - East Frisia had come under the direct rule of the French Empire - the soldiers were replaced by customs officers. Their main task was to monitor the trade restrictions imposed by Napoleon on the so-called continental barrier. In Neuharlingersiel attempts were made to replace the lack of income from freight traffic and trade with goods smuggling. In this context, the port area was connected by an underground corridor with a restaurant, the basement of which was used as a warehouse for the smuggled goods. Remains of this tunnel came to light in 1959 during expansion work for the new pumping station.
In 1813 the French occupying forces had to withdraw. East Frisia was again under Prussian rule for a short time, but was initially unable to continue the pre-Apoleonic heyday in terms of trade and traffic. Even after East Frisia was incorporated into the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814/15, there was initially no economic upturn. It was not until 1830 that a new period of prosperity began, which lasted until the end of the 19th century.
During National Socialism, Georg von Eucken-Addenhausen resided as President of the East Frisian Landscape on the Sielhof near Neuharlingersiel. According to the latest research, he is considered the "pioneer of National Socialism" in Neuharlingersiel.
Until 1963 the coastal town was one of the smallest communities in Germany. Its base was only four hectares. Only the houses, the properties of which directly touched the Neuharlingersieler harbor basin, belonged to the small Sielort, which was completely enclosed by the neighboring community of Seriem . In 1962, the two communities agreed to draw a new border, which was carried out in 1963. Neuharlingersiel received around 36 hectares of settlement land from Seriem.
In 1968 the communities Neuharlingersiel and Seriem merged. Four years later, the municipalities of Neuharlingersiel, Altharlingersiel and Ostbense were merged into today's municipality of Neuharlingersiel as part of the regional reform of July 1, 1972. Neuharlingersiel forms since then with the communities Dunum , Holtgast , Moorweg , Stedesdorf , Werdum and the city Esens the Samtgemeinde Esens . The administration of the joint municipality has its seat in Esens.
politics
Municipal council
The council of the community Neuharlingersiel consists of eleven council members. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 1001 and 2000 inhabitants. The eleven council members are elected by local elections for five years each. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.
The local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following result:
| Political party | Proportional votes | Number of seats | Change voices | Change seats |
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| New list of independent voter group Neuharlingersiel | 73.55% | 8th | −23.43% | −3 |
| Free voter group Neuharlingersiel | 26.44% | 3 | + 26.44% | +3 |
The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 66.7%, well above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous local election on September 11, 2011, the turnout was 60.02%.
mayor
- August Dirksen (1929-1946)
- Wilhelm Meinerts (1946–1948)
- August Dirksen (1948–1961)
- Johannes Eden (1961-1993)
- Peter Henning (1994–1996)
- Heiner E. Groenhagen (1996-2001)
Jürgen Peters has been honorary mayor since 2001.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the municipality shows a golden two-masted sailing ship with golden sails and pennants in blue. The representation of the Schonerbrigg is intended to remind of the many tall ships that once lived in Neuharlingersiel and to illustrate the location of Neuharlingersiel on the North Sea coast. The affiliation of the community to the integrated community of Esens and the Harlingerland is underlined by the colors blue and gold .
religion
Most of the population of Neuharlingersiel belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover . In the house at the port , a branch of the Evangelical Lutheran parish Werdum , held twice a month instead of worship. Another house of worship , the so-called Sielhof Chapel , is located in the center of the village and used to be used for Protestant worship in Neuharlingersiel. Today there are still weddings, baptisms and, during the summer months, occasional evening services.
During the summer, the Bibles Association also offers Protestant services and many other church events on the Neuharlingersieler campsite. The meeting place during this time is a specially built tent church .
A parish of the East Frisian Community Association offers evening services twice a month. The meeting point is a former net shed at Von-Eucken-Weg 1. There is also a local support point for the Blue Cross Christian addiction aid in the building .
Free-church- oriented Christians find their services in the Evangelical-Free Church Baptist Church in Esens and in the Methodist Church in Neuschoo .
Catholic Christians belong to the coastal parish community and have their nearest house of worship, the St. Willehad Church , in Esens.
The nearest New Apostolic congregation is also in Esens. Her church is at Walpurgisstrasse 3.
Culture and sights
A large number of architectural monuments have been preserved in Neuharlingersiel. The fishing port was first mentioned in a document about 300 years ago.
Other sights include two sculptures Alt- and Jungfischer by the sculptor Hans-Christian Petersen from Esens, which found their place in the harbor area in 2000, and the traditional ship Lulu Meinders , a former fishing cutter built in 1963, which has been in operation since May 2010 Has berth in Neuharlingersiel.
Museums
The bottle ship museum exhibits over 100 ships in bottles in 0.7 to 60 liter bottles with original ship models from the time of 200 BC. Until the modern nuclear submarine. Among other things, you can see the flagship of Admiral Nelson, the Victory , and the sinking of the Titanic (1912). The exhibition is supplemented by architectural drawings, photos and pictures of the captain. There are also annually changing special exhibitions on the subject of fishing and ocean shipping.
The Seriemer mill was built in 1804 by the millers CS Willems and V. Klasen. The old, listed windmill is still functional today and is open to visitors every day.
Buildings
The Sielhof is a former manor house from the 18th century and has been restored true to the original and modernized. In the place of the current building there used to be a building called Die Warfe , which belonged to the Princely House. As an inscription plate on the east gable reveals, the Sielhof was built in 1755 by Siebelt Frerichs Eymen. It was originally a two-story brick building with a hipped roof , the facades of which were structured by pilasters . In 1825 the property became the property of the Eucken family. Georg von Eucken-Addenhausen , who had been raised to the nobility in 1906, had the Sielhof extensively renovated between 1899 and 1906. During this time the neo-baroque tower on the entrance side and the two side wings, of which the right one contains a chapel, were built. Inside the manor house remains of the baroque furnishings have been preserved. The ground floor, which has been used as a restaurant since 1967, contains a fireplace with Delft tiles dated 1756 and a richly carved door from the same period. A hall with a painted wooden ceiling was preserved on the upper floor . Even today, the Sielhof is partially surrounded by a moat . This is spanned by a bridge leading into the adjacent park , the railing of which is made of whale bones.
Around 1900 Georg von Eucken had a memorial erected in the wall of the Sielhof for the construction of the Kyffhäuser monument in the form of a reliquary. There is no on-site identification of the clear nationalist and Nazi background.
Since 1989 the Sielhof has been owned by the Kurvereins Neuharlingersiel. The building is now known as the “House of the Guest”. Today there is a restaurant with a café, a library and a maritime chapel where weddings take place. In addition, church services, readings and lectures as well as creative offers are organized. The Bible tile wall that has been preserved to this day is particularly worth seeing . With around 820 Bible tiles, it is the largest closed unit of Bible tiles in East Frisia.
The brick building of the Dattein restaurant, erected around 300 years ago, is likely to be the oldest surviving residential building in Neuharlingersiel. It was extensively renovated in 2000 and converted into a restaurant.
Rescue station of the DGzRS
The German Society for Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS) has been present in Neuharlingersiel since 1869 and provides rescue services in the Wadden Sea as far as the islands of Langeoog, Spiekeroog and Wangerooge. In 1930 a motor lifeboat came to the station for the first time , the 10-meter-long pilot commander Lahrmann . It was followed by three 10-meter boats named Ulrich Steffens by 1949 , of which Ulrich Steffens III remained in service until 1972. As a successor the DGzRS stationed the Siegfried Boysen , one of two boats of the so-called 12-meter class. After almost 30 years of service, the replacement came in 2000 with the Neuharlingersiel , a 9.5 meter long boat of the current DGzRS class with a closed wheelhouse.
The rescue shed next to the slipway at Hafen West dates from 1963. It houses a small exhibition on sea rescue with the Ulrich Steffens III . DGzRS volunteers regularly open the doors and provide an insight into the eventful and moving history of the sea rescuers. Maritime rescue equipment, wreckage, ship models and historical documents from seafaring can be viewed. The voluntary helpers manned the lifeboat in the event of an emergency for their rescue missions in the area in front of Neuharlingersiel with the ferry and excursion traffic to the islands as well as the pleasure boat trip.
Sports
The BadeWerk Neuharlingersiel is a wellness facility with massages, Ayurveda, marine cosmetics or thalasso treatments, sports and fitness, an indoor seawater pool and a sauna area.
Regular events
Music events take place regularly in the fishing port, such as B. Harbor concerts. Every year there are around 2000 events in Neuharlingersiel, including:
- the traditional shooting festival "Sieler Markt"
- the cutter regatta
- the festival of lights in Sielhof Park
- Mudflat walks
- Guided tours through the Sielhof or the BadeWerk Neuharlingersiel
- Visits to the pumping station
- Guided tours through Neuharlingersiel
- Port events and concerts
- Beach and camper parties
- Cutter trips
Neuharlingersiel as a film location
Several television films have been produced in Neuharlingersiel in recent years. These include the children's film Der Seehund von Sanderoog , the ZDF television series Doktor Martin and part of the film Bermuda Triangle North Sea (with Hannes Jaenicke and Bettina Zimmermann ).
The children's film the seal of Sanderoog was produced in 2006 in Neuharlingersiel and on December 25 of the year the First sent the first time. The two seasons of Doktor Martin were filmed by Phoenix Film in Neuharlingersiel. The place name is also retained in the broadcast. The first season was first broadcast in July 2007, the second season in July 2009. The film Bermuda Triangle North Sea was first broadcast on September 25, 2011 on television.
Furthermore, the ZDF television garden shot its programs "Fernsehgarten on Tour" in the Kurverein Neuharlingersiel in autumn 2019. The television garden presented a mix of music, information, games, sport and fun in three episodes. The three titles are "Moin from Neuharlingersiel", "Kite Festival in Neuharlingersiel" and "Ostfriesen-Abitur".
Economy and Infrastructure
The most important branch of the economy is tourism. In the second half of the 19th century, tourism in the mainland ports - including Neuharlingersiel - increased, partly due to the increased number of bathing activities on the islands. The first documented mention of Neuharlingersiel as a bathing resort comes from the year 1861. Official advertising brochures have existed since 1912. The Neuharlingersiel bathing and tourist association, now the Neuharlingersiel health resort, was founded in 1960. In the period that followed, the town was expanded.
Important stations for tourism were the construction of the Kurhaus (today's BadeWerk), the campsite and the 20-hectare sandy beach with beach chairs and beach promenade. Around 100,000 bathing holidaymakers and tourists with around 800,000 overnight stays are counted every year. The campsite, which is located directly behind the dike, offers around 1100 parking spaces for caravans and motorhomes as well as around 300 tent spaces all year round.
The port is currently home to eight active fishing trawlers.
Established businesses
The NV insurance companies have their headquarters in Neuharlingersiel . There, NV-Versicherung and NV-Hagel-Versicherung employ a total of 70 employees and eleven trainees.
traffic
To the east Carolinensiel and to the west Bensersiel can be reached via a state road or via hiking trails on the dike. In June 2010 a municipal relief road was completed to relieve the town of through traffic. For the connection to the East Frisian island Spiekeroog is Neuharlingersiel Harbor Ferry Terminal. Since 1792 there has been a regular boat connection to the island, which nowadays usually comprises between one and four trips a day.
military
The Neuharlingersiel naval radio station of the German Navy is located near Neuharlingersiel .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Johannes Eden (1925–2002), Mayor of Neuharlingersiel (1961–1993)
Sons and daughters of the church
- Franz August Mammen (1813–1888), German entrepreneur and liberal politician (DFP)
- Georg von Eucken-Addenhausen (1855–1942), German lawyer and politician
- Wilhelm Schuchmann (1858–1943), German shipowner
Picture gallery
Artificially created bathing beach
Bottle ship museum
Harbor promenade
Old and young fishermen
Fisherman statues old and young fishermen
Evening mood in the harbor
sunset at the beach
Crab cutter
Aerial view
Foreland of the dike at Neuharlingersiel
literature
- Neuharlingersieler Insurance VVaG (Hrsg.): Neuharlingersiel ... a fishing village lives . North 1993
- Kurverein Neuharlingersiel e. V. (Ed.): People. Sea. Moments - photographed in the fishing village of Neuharlingersiel in the thirties. Esens 1993
- Hans-Bernhard Eden: Neuharlingersiel. From a commercial and fishing port to a tourist destination. Comprehensive review of Neuharlingersiel's past. Neuharlingersiel 1985 (published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Kurvereins Neuharlingersiel e.V.)
Web links
- Interactive 360 ° panorama photo of the port of Neuharlingersiel
- Neuharlingersiel community
- Kurverein Neuharlingersiel eV
- Instagram.com/Neuharlingersiel
- Facebook.com/Neuharlingersiel
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ^ Community Neuharlingersiel: Chronicle , accessed on April 13, 2014
- ↑ a b c Neuharlingersiel: Information about the Neuharlingersiel community , accessed on April 13, 2014
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the data and facts in this section are based on Neuharlingersieler Versicherungen VVaG (Hrsg.): Neuharlingersiel ... a fishing village lives . North 1993: Neuharlingersiel 1693–1993. The 300 year development of a sluice port (page numbers are missing)
- ^ Hans Friedl: Eucken-Addenhausen, Georg . In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Oldenburg 1992, p. 181 .
- ↑ Klaus Handel: He was a pioneer of National Socialism . In: Anzeiger für das Harlinger Land . January 28, 2020, p. 5 .
- ↑ Hans-Bernhard Eden: Neuharlingersiel. From a commercial and fishing port to a tourist destination. Comprehensive review of Neuharlingersiel's past . Neuharlingersiel 1985 (published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Kurvereins Neuharlingersiel eV), p. 160
- ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 29, 2016
- ↑ a b Neuharlingersiel: Municipal Council , accessed on December 29, 2016
- ↑ a b Neuharlingersiel community - overall results of the 2016 local council election , accessed on December 29, 2016
- ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Chronicle of the community at Neuharlingersiel.de.
- ^ Church district Harlingerland: Neuharlingersiel ; accessed on September 29, 2015
- ^ Community Neuharlingersiel: Events ; accessed on September 29, 2015
- ^ Blaues Kreuz Niedersachsen: Offer for gambling addicts ; accessed on August 27, 2016
- ↑ Internet presence of the Baptist church Esens ; accessed on September 29, 2015
- ↑ Internet presence of the Evangelical Methodist Church Community Neuschoo ; accessed on September 29, 2015
- ^ Catholic parish community coast: Esens ; accessed on September 29, 2015
- ↑ Nak Northern Germany: community Esens ; accessed on September 29, 2015
- ↑ Maxi Maria Platz: Relics of Nationalism. April 20, 2020, accessed June 6, 2020 .
- ^ Station Neuharlingersiel of the DGzRS. In: seenotretter.de. German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People, accessed on June 28, 2020 .
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