Schoost

Schoost City of Schortens Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ′ 19 ″  N , 7 ° 55 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	3 m above sea level NN
Residents :	156  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code :	26419
Area code :	04461

Schoost is a district of Schortens in the Friesland district in Lower Saxony .

location

Schoost is located in Jeverland on the East Frisian peninsula, on the edge of the marsh . How Accum it is on an incoming projecting into the march Geest tongue of the Oldenburg-East Frisian Geest, between which it formerly extensive moors - and heathlands was.

history

Schoost is an old Esch settlement and was first mentioned in 1124 in a confirmation document as the property of the Rastede monastery under the name Scohorst . The name comes from the Frisian sco for forest and horst for flood-free hilltop in the marshland .

In 1587 there were eight farms here. In 1886 the road from Dose to Schoost to Schortens was built and the land consolidation gave Schoost its current character.

In 1999 the smallest district of Schortens celebrated its 875th birthday.

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

• City of Schortens - Schoost

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 not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.