Sillens

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Sillens
Butjadingen municipality
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 44 "  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 43"  E
Sillens (Lower Saxony)
Sillens

Location of Sillens in Lower Saxony

Sillens than peasantry a district of Burhave in the municipality Butjadingen in Wesermarsch .

Sillens at the top right in the background, Burhave in the foreground.

history

Early history

Sillens is on a Wurt . This is located on the southern ridge of Butjadingen . An archaeological excavation on the Wurt brought deep insights into the settlement history of the place: around the birth of Christ, the first settlement as a flat settlement took place here. In the first century AD, the living space was increased by 3.5 meters due to the rising sea level. A six-phase settlement with building floor plans on top of each other could be determined. This was followed by a further increase of 40 cm. In the second century, the settlement was temporarily abandoned because the coastline had shifted 2.5 kilometers towards the North Sea . In the 7th / 8th In the 19th century, the Wurt was repopulated during the Frisian conquest. At that time the Wurt was raised by 1.2 meters. From around 800 AD, there are body burials with grave goods such as needles and pearls . These graves are similar to the burials of rural upper classes in Frisian burial grounds in the East Frisian and Dutch coastal areas.

From the Middle Ages

The first mention of Sillens was in 1479, at a meeting of the judges of Butjadingen. During the Christmas flood of 1717 , the von Sillens school was lost. Schooling for the children was re-established in 1721, but the teacher Reiner Fischer went from house to house because there was no school building of its own. Only in 1726 is there evidence of a school again, but it was insufficient. The Burhavian pastor Hartmann Klein therefore donated an inherited house. In 1855 there was a one-class school with 102 students. In 1855 the Isens school was added to the Sillenser school. School operations ended in 1960.

Administrative history

The village of Langemehne, which sank during the Christmas flood in 1717, and the places Sillenserwisch, Sillenserpalz, Sillenserdeich, Burhaversiel, Sillenserbrake and Burhaver Mühle belong and belonged to the farmers of Sillen.

Sillens has been part of the Butjadingen municipality since 1974, before it belonged to the Burhave municipality.

economy

Sillens is characterized by agriculture and tourism.

Residential and holiday complex

Since 2018 there has been a plan to build eight residential buildings on Dorfwurt Sillens. Since Sillens is a very old and mature settlement, the investor's plans led to protests among the local population. As a result of the discussion, the development plan for Sillens was revised several times. In order to protect the archaeological monument Dorfwurt, the monument protection authority stipulated that the ground must not be tampered with. For this reason, the houses are to be built on 1.2 meter high sand fillings.

Demographics

year Residents
1675 148
1762 227
1783 245
1815 304
1855 394
1895 330
1925 271
1950 342
1961 274
1970 202
2002 139

Web links

literature

  • Johannes Ey: The early dike and sluice building, in: Archaeological monuments between Weser and Ems, 2000, pp. 171–181.
  • Peter Schmid: The medieval new settlements of the Lower Saxon Marsch, in: Mette Bierma, Otta Harsema and Willem van Zeist (eds.) Archeologie en Landschap, Groningen 1988, pp. 133-165.
  • Peter Schmid: Medieval settlement, dyke and land expansion in the Lower Saxony marshland, in: Horst Wolfgang Böhme (ed.), Settlements and land expansion during the Salier period I, Sigmaringen 1991, pp. 29–36.
  • Count Albrecht Finck von Finckenstein : The history of Butjadingen and the Stadland until 1514, p. 103.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o K.-H. Ziessow / A. Eckhardt .: Sillens, in: Oldenburgisches Ortslexikon Volume 2: LZ . Ed .: Albrecht Eckhardt. tape 2 . Oldenburg 2011, p. 925 f .
  2. ↑ nord24 show all posts On nord24 de we bring you the latest news from Bremerhaven, the Cuxl, and the world every day: Butjadingen: New holiday homes are to be built in Sillens. In: nord24. June 8, 2018, accessed on November 20, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: Living In Butjadingen Sillens: New specifications for new Sillens buildings. July 6, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  4. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung: Village development Sillens: turning hammer is no longer an issue. October 10, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: Sillens development area: No “prison yards” as front gardens. November 24, 2018, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  6. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung: Real Estate Sillens: Monument conservationists without hesitation. June 7, 2018, accessed November 20, 2019 .