Neuwesteel

Neuwesteel City north
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 37 ″  E
Height :	1 m
Area :	15.07 km²
Residents :	337  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	22 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	26506
Area code :	04931
Location of Neuwesteel in the urban area from the north

Neuwesteel has been a district of the city of Norden in East Friesland in northwestern Lower Saxony since the local government reform in 1972 . It was created on July 11, 1934 as a district of the then independent municipality of Süderpolder , which was renamed Neuwesteel in autumn 1939. The NSDAP and other National Socialist organizations used the establishment of the farmers' settlement for their propaganda.

Before being incorporated into the city of Norden, Neuwesteel was a member and administrative seat of the Leybucht community for several years .

Location and transport links

Westeel borders on Leybuchtpolder to the southwest , Westermarsch I to the northwest , Süderneuland I to the northeast and Osteel , one of the member communities of the Brookmerland municipality, to the south .

history

The village of Westeel , which sank in 1373 when the Leybucht collapsed, was located in the area of ​​today's district . Parts of the Leybucht were gradually diked over the centuries. In earlier centuries this was done with muscle power and a spade, as indicated by the waterline and the spade in the Neuwesteel coat of arms (so-called Redendes Wappen ). In 1928 and 1929, the approximately 600 hectare Leypolder was diked and settled from 1930. Neuwesteel was founded in 1934 and was initially considered a district of the Süderpolder municipality . On October 1, 1939, the entire community of Süderpolder was renamed Neuwesteel .

The National Socialist blood-and-soil ideology was closely connected with the actual founding of Neuwesteel . Neuwesteel was considered to be "the first closed farmers' settlement in National Socialist Germany". The Reichsbauernführer and Minister of Food, Walther Darré , appeared at the opening ceremony . In his celebratory speech he stated that “National Socialism had placed blood and race at the center of the ideological struggle”. It is the will of the Fiihrer that the “German man” should reconnect with “the native plaice”. Sections of the SS and SA also took part in the founding ceremony , at which all settlement buildings were flagged with swastika flags . They lit the hearth fires in the new farmhouses "in accordance with old Germanic-German customs". They had lit the fire beforehand in the courtyards of neighboring Osteel. The national socialist background of the settlement project is not mentioned in the local literature. The official greeting from the city of Norden on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Neuwesteel in 2004 is also silent about these connections.

The housing construction company Niedersächsische Heimstätte (NSH), founded in 1922, was responsible for the settlement project and (also during the Nazi era ) saw itself as an "organ of state housing policy ". In 1934 the NSH received over 400 applications from willing settlers. This number was compared to only 30 farms, seven farm workers' houses and four craft workshops. A school was part of the planned settlement from the beginning. It was one class and was built by the Neuwesteelern (mostly young farmers from rural areas of East Frisia ) themselves. The lease money from two hectares of so-called school land was used to maintain the school, which opened at Easter 1935 with 47 students. The school was in operation until 1971. Then the Neuwesteeler children were taught in the north and south of New Zealand.

Originally Neuwesteel was laid out as a row village (more precisely as "Hufensiedlung" ). The farmhouses of the first generation of settlers, each surrounded by their lands (" hooves "), line the main road that runs through the village in a horseshoe shape. Of the former 34 farms, 21 were still managed in 2019. In 1956 another settlement was built, which is characterized by single-family houses. It was considerably expanded in 1993 by the designation of new building land. In the early years there were also a number of craft businesses in the village, including blacksmiths, shoemakers, bakers and a gas station with an attached taxi company. You have since given up. The last grocery store in Neuwesteel closed its doors in 2008.

In 1965 Neuwesteel became a member of the Leybucht joint community . This was incorporated to the north in the course of the Lower Saxony municipal reform in 1972. As an incorporated district, Neuwesteel has to this day a mayor who represents the interests of around 340 residents towards the city of Norden.

Economy and tourism

Norder Tief - Neuwesteel is on the opposite side.

Since the diked polder soil is very fertile, the Neuwesteeler area was used for agricultural purposes from the beginning. Cattle breeding and agriculture are predominant, especially the cultivation of potatoes and the breeding of seed potatoes. A number of farmers have opened farm shops in recent years. Some offer a vacation on the farm .

Neuwesteel also has a campsite. It is located at Fährweg 9 . There is a small ferry dock near the square. From there, pedestrians or cyclists can cross the Norder Tief with a crank pump .

Sightseeing

A special attraction in Neuwesteel is the scoop and sluice structure of the Northern Drainage Association. The previous building from 1929, with the construction of which the city of Norden lost its direct connection to the sea, could no longer meet the requirements set by modern technical standards over the decades. From May 31st to June 1st, 2008 the new pumping station and the modernized sewer were handed over with a big celebration. Important preparatory work had already been carried out by 2001. Since this point in time, people no longer fish in the open Leybucht , but in the Störtebek Canal, which directs the water past the fishing village of Greetsiel into the Leyhörn reservoir. This means that the city of the north also has direct access to the North Sea again .

literature

• Karl Leiner: Panorama North District . Self-published by the district of Norden: Norden 1972. pp. 309–314
• Gerhard Canzler: The northern schools . Verlag H. Risius KG: Weener (Ems) 2005. ISBN 3-88761-097-0 . S. 144f ( 1935–1971: Neuwesteel School )

Web links

• Neuwesteel.de: Village info

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eberhard Rack: Kleine Landeskunde Ostfriesland, Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1998, p. 92
2. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. North district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ↑ Article Bauernsiedlung Neuwesteel . In: New People. Sheets of the Race Political Office of the NSDAP 3rd year, No. 1 (1935). P. 27
4. ↑ Presse-Service.de: Neuwesteel district celebrates its 70th anniversary. Greetings from the city of Norden (June 30, 2004) ; accessed on March 5, 2020
5. ^ Gerhard Canzler: The northern schools . Verlag H. Risius KG: Weener (Ems) 2005. S. 144f
6. ^ Eberhard Rack: Ostfriesland. A landscape pocket atlas . Self-published by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostfriesischer Sparkassen: Norden 1970. P. 81; Sp I
7. ^ Neuwesteel.de: Small village chronicle ; accessed on March 5, 2020
8. ↑ Norden.de: Population according to districts
9. ^ Neuwesteel.de: Small village chronicle ; accessed on March 5, 2020
10. ^ NWP Planungsgesellschaft mbH (on behalf of the city of Norden): Village renewal / development planning for the districts of Leybuchtpolder and Neuwesteel . Oldenburg undated [2007?]. P. 23