Port Lodge
Portsloge is the district and peasantry of the municipality Edewecht in Lower Saxony district Ammerland .
location
Portsloge is located north of Nord-Edewecht I. Neighboring towns are Ekern (Bad Zwischenahn municipality) to the north and west , and Kleefeld to the east .
history
prehistory
A boulder from the Tonkuhle area on Hegekamp proves the presence of people since the 5th millennium BC. Archaeologists suspect a large stone grave from the early Stone Age (so-called “pastor's grave”, approx. 3000 BC, cf. article folk tales from Edewecht : “Vom Pastorengrab”) in a raised ground at the Portslog Fischteich, surrounded by boulders . A flint ax and hammer ax also date from the same era .
German times
Around 500 AD, farmers from the Chauken tribe settled on the drier ash soils of the Ammerland , some of them probably also in the area of today's Port Log. Between 500 and 700 n. Chr. Probably introduces climate change to depopulation and desolation of the land . It was not until the late 7th century that Saxony began to settle again . After Charlemagne's victory over the Saxons (785 AD), the Ammerland is Christianized and given a county constitution and tithe .
middle Ages
Around this time farmers from Edewecht and the church there came into possession of heather areas and the forests in the area of what will later become the Port Log. Since then, the story has been closely linked to the Edewechts . In 1507, the Oldenburg Superior Court of Ekerner denied farmers the use of the Eschhorn pasture area, making this area part of the area of the later Port Lodge. In the middle of the 17th century, a route of the "Oldenburgische Landespost" was set up, which led through the Portslog forest area (today's streets "Espergöhlen" and "Brannwisch") and the cattle dam in the direction of Zwischenahn.
18th century: difficult beginning of settlement
The settlement of Portsloges began in 1782 on the northern Viehdamm (today: Hof Brüntjen). The large heather area ("cattle") belonging to Edewecht householders was parceled out after 1800 and those interested in settlement were given hereditary lease ("basic wage"). Since 1799, it has been possible to settle further locations here in a short time. The first land areas on the Viehdamm consist of 2 hectares of seed land by the house and an approximately 2.5 hectare piece of moor in the Portsloger Moor (Wildenlohsmoor), which is used for the supply of peat and buckwheat . The living conditions of the settlers are difficult, a sideline is essential. Therefore, many have to work as day laborers for Edewechter farmers or seasonal workers from Holland . In 1834 Portsloge had around 125 residents, spread over 24 farms. Until around 1850, the place expanded with new wage and mutt sites in the direction of Wildenlohsmoor along today's Portsloger Straße, the population doubled by around 1880 (284 inhabitants, 51 farms). From the middle of the 19th century, however, growth stagnated, since when the "Brannwisch" at the Ostend Port Loges was reached, the areas that could be settled were largely exhausted. Agriculture cannot be expanded any further and employment opportunities are falling. There is a wave of emigration, in some cases to the USA.
The early 20th century: increasing prosperity
The living situation only improved again in the 1870s, when large infrastructure measures ( Hunte-Ems Canal 1855-93, Oldenburg-Leer railway 1869) offered many port loggers the opportunity to earn a living nearby. From 1896, the brickworks “Lüers” and “Bertram” offered work in the local area .
In 1871 / '72 the cattle dam is fixed with clinker bricks . In 1908 the previously unpaved Portsloger Straße followed, and from 1910 the "Portsloger Damm" to the east was also paved. It creates the connection to the new Kleefelder Moorkolonie and also makes it easier to get to the market in Oldenburg .
At the turn of the 20th century, mechanization and artificial fertilizers lead to an agricultural boom, which also favors the construction of a Portslog windmill (1897). Shortly before the First World War, Portsloge was connected to the electricity network. The Edewechter Kleinbahn has been crossing the Portslog area since 1912, and the first bicycles and automobiles have been on the streets. At that time, Portsloge had 68 houses and, since 1913, its own elementary school.
1914-33: First World War and times of crisis
The First World War interrupted this quiet development. Many men were drafted, and from 1915 rationing and compulsory cattle and grain taxes began. 20 Portslog soldiers are killed in the war. The terms of the Treaty of Versailles, perceived as a “ dictated peace ” , also form a root of the emerging National Socialism in Portsloge . Reparation payments and inflation make economic life ailing. This is one of the reasons why large-scale forest clearings on Brannwisch (around 70 - 80 hectares) took place between 1925 and 1930 as job creation. At the height of the global economic crisis in 1929, Portsloge had 350 residents with 73 houses. There is high unemployment, agricultural prices are under great pressure from cheap imports and seizures are part of everyday life.
1933-45: National Socialism and War Destruction
After the National Socialists came to power (1933) , popular job creation measures gradually eradicated mass unemployment, the situation in agriculture improved through the stop of imports and a “ market regime ”, and later the purchase prices were increased again. Public life Port Loges is through the many branches of the NSDAP " brought into line " Children and youth in the Hitler Youth a pre-military training. The disadvantages of the development can no longer be stated openly. The delusion of a “superman” leads to the forced sterilization of a blind farmer's daughter from Port Lodge, a disabled person is taken to the “mental hospital” in Wehnen , from which she never returns.
On October 1, 1938, the Port Lodge, which had previously belonged to Nord-Edewecht I, became an independent peasantry . A year later, Germany is at war again. Call-ups take place, prisoners of war and forced laborers have to help out in agriculture. Rationing is being reintroduced and the supply situation is deteriorating. At the end of the war in 1945, the remaining population flees to the moorland from the artillery and air bombardment of the front approaching from Edewecht . Portsloge is finally liberated by Canadian troops from the east via Epergöhlen / Brannwisch and west via Viehdamm / Portsloger Straße. Total losses (10 houses, 20 farm buildings), severe destruction (12 houses, 19 farm buildings) and slightly damaged buildings (31 houses, 72 farm buildings) then paint a picture of the devastation. Many residents are left with nothing when they return.
1945 until today
The village image of the first post-war period is therefore characterized by 19 wooden barracks , as emergency shelters for the victims of the ruins, but also for arriving refugees from the east . Since there is still food available, the farmers are overrun by urban hoarders . The black market is also flourishing in Portsloge . With the currency reform in 1948, these temporary arrangements gradually disappeared and were replaced by massive residential and commercial buildings. Much of what has been preserved is also lost. At the beginning of the 50s there were the first isolated new settlements, around 1960 the first closed residential area "Am Walde" was built. In the period that followed, Portsloge developed strongly through additional new building areas ("Brannwisch" 1986, "Scheelkenhof" 1990, "Am Busch" 1994, "east Viehdamm" 1998, "Feldkamp" 2000). The population is growing accordingly (1961: 605, 1970: 838, 1980: 1063, 2000: 1553, 2004: 1848). The rapidly growing residential development entails a structural change: the importance of agriculture decreases, the last farm is relocated in 2000. In their place z. T. the nursery industry.
Origin of name
The current name Portsloge probably comes from an older hall name " Butzloh " (map of the Edewechter nastiness , 1749). The final syllable –lo (or –loh) is the old German word for forest.
societies
- Boßelerverein Frei Weg Portsloge eV
- Edewecht-Portsloge riding and driving club
- Modellsportclub Oldenburg-Edewecht eV
- Ship Model Club Bad Zwischenahn-Edewecht eV
literature
- Hartmut Kahlen and Chronicle Team Portsloge (2003): Our Portsloge. Village life in the Ammerland. Pictorial Chronicle.
- Albrecht Eckhardt (Hrsg.): History of the community Edewecht in the Ammerland. Isensee, Oldenburg 2005, ISBN 3-89995-226-X .