South Georgsfehn

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South Georgsfehn
Uplengen municipality
Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 30 ″  N , 7 ° 44 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 3 m above sea level NN
Area : 10.4 km²
Residents : 590  (March 2010)
Population density : 57 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 26670
Primaries : 04489, 04956

Südgeorgsfehn is a village in the municipality of Uplengen in East Frisia . The place in the district of Leer has 590 inhabitants (as of 2010). Südgeorgsfehn is a Fehnsiedlung with an area of ​​approx. 1040 hectares. The head of the village is Klemens Thiede.

history

development

After the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815), East Frisia fell to the Kingdom of Hanover . Its government made the colonization of the moors a state matter. In 1818 work began on digging a canal from the Jümme towards the northeast near Stickhausen . A branch to the east was dug south of Hollen. This ended at the connection between Hollen and Detern .

The colonies were given in the form of long-term leases. The first were signed in the autumn of 1829, which means that this year is generally regarded as the year that South Georgsfehn was founded. Südgeorgsfehn, together with Nordgeorgsfehn and Holterfehn, is one of the younger fen settlements in East Frisia .

According to the long lease agreement, the colonists were obliged, among other things, to dig the canal further into the moor and to maintain it. The colonies were assigned from the southwest to the northeast, so that the colony continued to grow in this same direction. By the end of the 19th century, the settlement of Südgeorgsfehn was largely complete.

On April 25, 1963, Südgeorgsfehn with Nordgeorgsfehn, Hollen and Ammersum became part of the joint municipality of Hollen. On January 1, 1973, as part of a district reform, a resolution of November 20, 1972 came into force, whereby Südgeorgsfehn finally became part of the municipality of Uplengen .

Surname

Südgeorgsfehn was named after the King of Great Britain and Hanover, George IV . The prefix “Süd-” describes the geographical location of the colony in contrast to the North Georgsfehn, which was founded at the same time. The word Fehn describes the type of bog colonization , in which a canal is used to drain the bog, to remove the excavated peat and as an important transport route, for example to bring building material and fertilizer.

According to the official bulletin of the Hanoverian government from February 1829 the colony was officially called "Süd-Georgs-Vehn". The spelling and spelling with »f« only developed over time and has now become established.

Church and religion

Südgeorgsfehn has belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Hollen since it was founded . The settlement of colonists in North and South Georgsfehn made it necessary to rebuild the Hollen Church towards the end of the 19th century, as the old one had become too small.

In 1853 a cemetery was laid out on a sand hill east of the Hollen – Augustfehn road. Since then, the deceased from the village have been buried here.

In addition to the predominant Evangelical-Lutheran denomination, there is also an active Evangelical-Free Church community ( Baptists ). For a long time it even had its own chapel in South Georgsfehn. It was across from the cemetery on the Hollen – Augustfehn road. In the meantime this chapel has been given up and the Baptists of South Georgsfehn have joined the congregation in neighboring Augustfehn. Since the majority of the ancestors of today's Baptists originally belonged to the Evangelical Reformed Church , it can be assumed that they wanted to set themselves apart from the predominant Lutheran denomination by forming their own congregation.

In the meantime (towards the end of the 19th century) there were also a number of settlers in Südgeorgsfehn who joined the Methodist congregations in Leer and Edewecht. The children of this generation, however, were mostly of the Protestant denomination again.

In the period after the First World War , there were also a handful of Bible Students , who soon turned away from this religious community.

School system

In the first few years after the colony was founded, the children went to school in Hollen. In 1845 the number of children had increased so much that Südgeorgsfehn was declared an independent school community. A year later, a one-class school was built after the students had previously been taught makeshift in the private rooms of the settlers.

In 1867 this first school was demolished and a new school building was built in the southern part of the cemetery. Eight years later there were already so many children in Südgeorgsfehn that a second classroom had to be added.

Not until 1965 was a new school building built west of the Hollen – Augustfehn road, opposite the cemetery. Less than ten years later, in 1974, the school had to be given up again. The students from Südgeorgsfehn now had to go to school in Hollen. The still quite young school building was converted into a village community center, which now serves a wide variety of purposes. Above all, events by various local associations and other groups (e.g. the theater group “Lüttje Bühn”) take place there. In addition, the local volunteer fire department is housed in the village community center. And finally, the premises are used for funeral services.

Population development

The population of Südgeorgsfehn:

year population
1833 9
1848 241
1858 352
1867 465
1869 464
1871 512
1880 566
1885 595
1895 658
1898 600
1900 691
1905 701
1925 714
year population
1933 651
1939 632
1946 834
1950 779
1956 689
1961 668
1970 659
1995 608
1999 578
2000 583
2001 579
2002 580
2010 590

Mayor and Mayor

  • 1847: Gerd Focken Ollermann, mayor
  • 1860: Jann Meiners Hanssen (Basseler), master builder
  • 1862–1867: Dirk Gerdes Ollermann (son of Gerd Focken Ollermann), mayor
  • 1868–1873: Hinrich Gerhard Müller, mayor
  • 1873–1885: Gerhard Ollermann (brother of Dirk Gerdes Ollermann), mayor
  • 1885–1896: Heinrich Gerhard Rhoden, mayor
  • 1896–1914: Hinrich ("Hinnerk") Jürgens, community leader
  • 1914–1931: Heinrich Heinrici (son of the main teacher Wilhelm Heinrici), community leader
  • 1931–1945: Enne Jürgens (son of Hinrich Jürgens), mayor
  • 1945–1946: Diedrich Hafer, Mayor
  • 1946–1950: Heinrich Bunger, Mayor
  • 1950–1956: Hermann Fischer, mayor
  • 1956–1961: Hermann Brunken, mayor
  • 1961–1964: Heinrich Bunger, Mayor
  • 1964–1972: Hermann Brunken, mayor
  • 1973–1996: Hans Webermann, mayor
  • 1996–2007: Johannes Stöhr, mayor
  • 2007–2019: Rolf Grebener, mayor
  • since 2019: Klemens Thiede, mayor

Geographical location

Südgeorgsfehn is located on the south-eastern edge of the municipality of Uplengen , right on the border with the Ammerland district . Neighboring places are Augustfehn , Deternerlehe, Hollen, Bargerfehn and Jübberde.

Buildings

  • Windmill : The two-story Dutch gallery with codend was built in 1907 by Alfons and Jantjedine Goldenstein, who come from a family of millers and mills known far beyond East Frisia. In 1939 the son Bernhard Goldenstein took over the mill. In 1954 it was sold to the Raiffeisen cooperative. It is now owned by the municipality of Uplengen. The mill is closed, but can be visited on request.
  • War memorial : The names of the fallen and missing from both world wars are immortalized on stone tablets on the inner walls of the entrance portal of the cemetery.
  • Bell tower : In 2002 a bell tower was built on the southern part of the cemetery, the bells of which are rung at funerals.
  • Wind farm : In December 2001 the “Fehnland” wind farm was put into operation. It consists of a total of eleven wind turbines of the type Enercon E-66 / 18.70 with a rated output of 1.8 megawatts.

Personalities

  • Horst Werner Janssen (born September 16, 1933 in Südgeorgsfehn, † October 19, 2017 in Elsfleth), captain and shipowner

literature

  • Hartwig Aden: 150 years of Südgeorgsfehn / summarized and supplemented based on the contributions of the former fencing master van Dieken and the former main teacher Klinkebiel. 1979
  • Gisela Brückmann: Südgeorgsfehn: Insights into the history of our village for its 175th anniversary. Berg-Verlag, Bockhorn 2004.
  • Theodor Hayko van Dieken: The 100 year old Südgeorgsfehn. Historical overview of the origin and development of the Südgeorgsfehn. In: Pictures from East Friesland. DH Zopfs & Sohn, Leer 1929.
  • Alfred Hugenberg: Inner Colonization in Northwest Germany. Published by Karl J. Trübner, Strasbourg 1891.
  • Christian Meyer: Historical family book of the parishes Firrel, Hollen, Ockenhausen and Uplengen (Remels). Volume 16: Südgeorgsfehn - Zwischenmooren: No. 16209 to 18044. Self-published, Wittmund 2004.
  • Gerd Mumme: Südgeorgsfehn, its development and inhabitants. A folklore annual work. 1937.
  • E. Stumpfe: The settlement of the German moors with special consideration of the raised moors and fen colonization. Georg Heinrich Meyer, Leipzig and Berlin 1903.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 262 .
  2. ^ Committees - Uplengen municipality. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .