Tergast

Tergast municipality Moormerland Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 12 ″ N , 7 ° 22 ′ 10 ″ E
Height :	4 (0-5) m above sea level NN
Area :	9.95 km²
Residents :	457 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	46 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	26802
Area code :	04924
	Moormerland in the district of Leer

Tergast is a village in the Lower Saxony municipality of Moormerland in the district of Leer in East Frisia . At the end of 2016 the village had 457 inhabitants who lived in an area of 9.95 km².

geography

The cluster village is located about two kilometers northeast of Oldersum on a five-meter-high Geestinsel in the middle of the otherwise flat grassland of the Ems at sea level and belongs to the municipality of Moormerland .

history

Evangelical Reformed Church

In 1401, Tergast was first named as a "guest" in a deed of donation in favor of the Langen Monastery . The term "guest (s)" (or Geest) describes the high-lying farmland. The preposition "tor" and the article "der" are merged to "Ter-". Tergast means “on the back of the Geest” or “sand ridge”.

After the migration of the peoples, the settlement area of the lower Ems belonged to the Emsigerland . In 1447 Hoytet Tammana was mentioned as the chief of Tergast. A few years later, the Tergast parish was part of the glory of Oldersum .

Other residential areas and farms around Tergast are: Tergaster Hammrich, Hohewarf, Rothehahn, Imkhörn, Sünnenblink, the Tergaster Grashaus and the Sieve, a former Vorwerk of the Johanniterkommende Hasselt .

The parish of Tergast - today Protestant Reformed - belonged to the Leer provost in the diocese of Münster in the Middle Ages . Presumably in the first half of the 13th century, the Tergaster church was built on the highest point of the village sand ridge. A school and a schoolmaster were named in Tergast as early as 1560. There has been a waterworks in Tergast since 1895, and gravel has been extracted in Tergast since around the second half of the 19th century.

Since January 1, 1973, Tergast has been part of the municipality of Moormerland in the district of Leer, in Lower Saxony.

politics

Tergast is politically represented by a 5-member local council.

The local mayor is Hermann Helmers (SPD).

Culture and sights

The waterworks of Stadtwerke Emden with several reservoirs are located in Tergast .

Personalities

Habbo Gerhard Lolling (* 1848 in Tergast; † 1894 in Athens ), German classical archaeologist

Web links

Individual evidence

^ History of the community of Moormerland. In: moormerland.de. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .
↑ Moormerland - NBG current brochure, page 32 - An overview of the districts. In: pdf file (9.3 MB) on moormerland.de. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .
↑ Klaus Euhausen, local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape: Tergast, community Moormerland, district Leer (PDF; 772 KB), accessed on September 18, 2018.
^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 262 .
^ Tergast local councilor

[1] History of the community of Moormerland. In: moormerland.de. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .

[2] Moormerland - NBG current brochure, page 32 - An overview of the districts. In: pdf file (9.3 MB) on moormerland.de. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .

[3] Klaus Euhausen, local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape: Tergast, community Moormerland, district Leer (PDF; 772 KB), accessed on September 18, 2018.

[4] 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 262 .

[5] Tergast local councilor