Otzum
Otzum was a church village in Harlingerland , now part of East Friesland. The church is still mentioned in the Stader Copiar of 1420. In the East Frisian map by David Fabricius from 1589, the village is shown in the middle of the mud flats . Ulrich von Werdum reports in his history of the Werdum house from 1670 that the foundations of the church are still visible in the mudflats 1500 paces from the dike in Seriem. The name has been preserved in the Otzumer Balje , part of the Seegat between Langeoog and Spiekeroog .
Today you can still see the foundation stones in the tidal flats about 2.5 km northwest of Neuharlingersiel . A little north of it is extensive municipal waste, which shows that this place was inhabited since the birth of Christ and was continuously inhabited until around 1500. You can find ceramics, animal bones and church building materials in the form of tuff , cloister format bricks and monk and nun roof tiles .
South of Otzum a dike line was a Siel bauwerk be from 1470 demonstrated. Otzum was probably part of a diked marshland from the 12th century . The dike had to be withdrawn, after which the village was probably abandoned around 1500.
The finds from the village are exhibited in Esens in the "Leben am Meer" museum and in the tower museum of Esens' Magnuskirche.
A research ship of the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Sea at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has been named after the location since 2011 .
literature
- A. Heinze: Archaeological finds in the East Frisian Watt. In: Jaarverslagen Vereniging voor Terpenonderzoek. Groningen 2000, pp. 76-82.
- Kai Niederhöfer: Rungholt was also found elsewhere ... Archaeological traces of the lost town of Otzum. In: Archeology in Lower Saxony . Vol. 11, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89995-522-4 , pp. 80-83.
- Kai Niederhöfer: Archaeological sites in the East Frisian Wadden Sea. Settlement history of a submerged landscape until 1570 (= contributions to archeology in Lower Saxony. Volume 18). Rahden / Wstf. 2016, ISBN 978-3-89646-938-0 , pp. 198-208.
Web links
- Internet presence of the "Museum by the Sea" in Esens
- Archaeological mudflat hike to the sunken village of Otzum of the Archaeological Monument Preservation Working Group
Individual evidence
- ^ Minister christened research ship "Otzum". In: Nordwest-Zeitung . September 22, 2011.
- ↑ research boat "OTZUM" , icbm.de, accessed on February 25, 2014.