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Sterbur is a village in East Frisia . It belongs to the small town of Esens . The place name refers to it: It is interpreted as the peasantry belonging to the city (Esens) .
The clustered settlement is located about 1.5 kilometers north-northeast of the small town on the extreme northern edge of the Geest at a height of 2.1 m above sea level. NHN . The place is surrounded on three sides by a knick marsh area , which is underlain by a low moor. In the southeast the village area borders on Gley-Podzol soils with plague overlay and in the south and southwest Pseudogley .
The neighboring towns , colonies and living quarters of Backerei , Hammerhaus , Hayungshaus , Klein Armenland , Mosishütte , Neuseriem , Norddorf , Norddorfer Grashaus , Ölschlägerei , sawmills , Ülkerei and Wold belong to Sterbur .
history
The place was first mentioned in a document between 1581 and 1586 as Stederbur . The name Stederbuhr has been handed down from 1670 . The current spelling has been used since 1684.
During the Second World War , the navy set up a training camp for 2500 to 3000 naval artillerymen around 1942. Later, an average of 40 prisoners of war (initially French, Serbs and Poles, later exclusively Poles) were housed there. They formed the Esen's peasant command No. 5321 of the main camp X C in Nienburg / Weser . After the war it was converted into the Sterbur foreigners' camp, where 1117 Hungarians lived.
When the municipality was reformed on July 1, 1972, the two municipalities of Bensersiel and Sterbur were incorporated into the town of Esens.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft : Sterbur, Samtgemeinde Esens, Landkreis Wittmund , accessed on September 12, 2016.
- ↑ a b Gerd Rokahr: Esens, Stadt, Landkreis Wittmund von (PDF; 99 kB), accessed on September 12, 2016.
Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ N , 7 ° 37 ′ E