Oestringfelde

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Oestringfelde
City of Schortens
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 34 "  N , 7 ° 55 ′ 3"  E
Residents : 721  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code : 26419
Area code : 04461

Oestringfelde is a district of Schortens in the district of Friesland in Lower Saxony . Together with Heidmühle , Schortens and Ostiem , Oestringfelde forms the center of the town with almost 14,000 inhabitants.

location

Oestringfelde is located in Jeverland on the Frisian peninsula, on the edge of the marshland . Numerous villages, such as the neighboring districts Accum and Schoost are to enter projects into the march Geest tongues , between which it formerly extensive moors - and heathlands was.

history

The first traces of settlement in today's urban area go back to the 5th century. At that time there was no Schortens as a unit, but in its place were various farmers and smaller villages. The administrative units were the parishes , the boundaries of which were essentially defined by geographical conditions (e.g. rivers and other obstacles). After the construction of the St. Stephen's Church and the associated reallocation of the parishes, today's center of Schortens developed into the spiritual center of the immediate vicinity, to which the nearby Oestringfelde Monastery also contributed, which in the Middle Ages throughout the region due to its horse breeding was known. Today only a ruin of the monastery exists in the monastery park .

The Oestringfelde monastery was built in 1175 after a victory by the Östringers over the Rüstringers near Schakelhave. The collegiate monastery with church, living quarters and outbuildings was consecrated to the holy mother Mary and became the spiritual center of the rural community Östringen. This is where the so-called Östringer Chronik was created , the only medieval chronicle in Jeverland , of which only partially different copies have survived today. In 1272 the monastery buildings were destroyed by fire. In 1323 the foundation stone was laid for the defensive tower of the monastery, which also served for national defense. After the plague epidemic around 1350, the Dominican Order in the north received the abandoned buildings to build a Dominican convent and the tower was completed with state funds from the Östringians.

Tower of the abandoned monastery Östringsfelde, painting from 1789

The tower of the monastery is said to have been around 50 meters after the church tower in Marienhafe, the highest on the East Frisian peninsula . An official report from 1769 describes the tower with a square base area of ​​13 meters by 13 meters. The walls were four meters thick in the lower area and two meters in the upper area. The masonry consisted of granite blocks on the outside and bricks on the inside . A sketch enclosed with the official report shows two rows of three arched window openings, one on top of the other, on the two upper floors, one divided by a pillar. The church built on the tower had a single nave.

The monastery was used as a fortification , as a meeting place and for conferences. So was z. B. the Oestringen treaty negotiated between Maria von Jever and Count Enno II of East Frisia .

The monastery was abolished in 1577 by Count Johann VII of Oldenburg and Count Anton Günter von Oldenburg began demolishing the building in 1609. The mighty tower stood for around 150 years and was only demolished in 1769 under the rule of Friedrich August von Anhalt-Zerbst .

In 1839 the monastery grounds with the remaining building were sold to the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Councilor Heinrich Georg Ehrentraut (1798–1866). He laid out a garden and used the granite stones found during excavations in 1844 to recreate the floor plan of the monastery tower. After 1900 the former monastery property was gradually dismantled and sold. The community of Schortens acquired part of the site and converted the garden into today's monastery park, which was placed under landscape protection in 1985 .

On December 6, 2011, the city was officially awarded the title of “state-approved resort” for the districts of Schortens, Heidmühle, Ostiem, Oestringfelde and Grafschaft .

literature

  • Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon. 3 volumes. Brune Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Wilhelmshaven 1986.
  • Heimatverein Schortens (Ed.): 75 years Heimatverein Schortens - Heimatbuch and Festschrift. 1st edition, Heiber Druck & Verlag, Schortens 2004, ISBN 3-936691-22-3 .
  • Ingeborg Nöldeke, Almut Salomon, Antje Sander: Schortens. Local history from the Middle Ages to modern times. NORA Verlagsgemeinschaft Dyck & Westerheide OHG, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86557-097-6 .

Web links

Commons : Oestringfelde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures in the city of Schortens 2013. ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2014 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. (PDF; 300 kB), accessed on November 2, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schortens.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986-1987, Volume 2, p. 492 ff.
  3. ↑ Certificate ( Memento from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 43 kB), accessed on November 2, 2011.