Ostland (Borkum)

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Ostland
City of Borkum
Coat of arms of Ostland
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 13 ″  N , 6 ° 43 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 4 m above sea level NHN
Postal code : 26757
Area code : 04922
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Map of Borkum

Ostland is a district of the East Frisian city ​​of Borkum in the district of Leer in Lower Saxony . Along with the city center and roadstead, it is one of three districts of Borkum.

geography

The settlement is located about four kilometers east-northeast of the core city at an altitude of m above sea level. NHN . The soils in the eastern part of the country consist mainly of Regosol and Kleimarsch , and to a lesser extent also of Gley .

history

The two parts of the island on the map of Borkum by Karl Ludwig von Le Coq , 1805

The island of Borkum was divided into east and west until 1830. Ostland was first mentioned in a document in 1650. Settlement of the area began in December 1752. Steffen Akkermann, son of Rolof Steffens Akkermann from Borkum, received permission to build a sheepfold there. In 1848 there were five residential buildings in the Ostland in which 36 people lived.

Economy and Infrastructure

In the village is one of two waterworks owned by the Borkum municipal utilities that pump water out of the freshwater lens. The waterworks on Ostland is purely a production waterworks - the drinking water is passed through here to collect it in the waterworks on Hindenburgstrasse in the city center. The 2000 cubic meter storage facility there guarantees the basic supply of the island.

Several buses run daily from Ostland to the city center and roadstead.

Web links

Commons : Ostland  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft: Borkum, Inselgemeinde und Stadt, Kreis Leer (PDF; 1.3 MB), accessed on August 2, 2012.
  2. The importance of the Borkumer Stadtwerke for the drinking water supply . Business operations of the city of NSHB Borkum GmbH. Archived from the original on February 7, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 7, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtwerke-borkum.de