Torsholt

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Torsholt
City of Westerstede
Coordinates: 53 ° 12 '42 "  N , 7 ° 55' 54"  E
Height : 7 m above sea level NN
Residents : 696  (2011)
Postal code : 26655
Area code : 04488

Torsholt is a district of Westerstede , the district town of the Lower Saxon district of Ammerland . It is located south of Westerstede on the border with the Bad Zwischenahn community .

history

Torsholt is one of the typical Esch villages in Ammerland and was settled early on. It was first mentioned in a document in 1275, when a Borchard von Torzholte was mentioned. The oldest farm has been known since 1385. In the Oldenburg Contribution Register of 1679, nine househusband positions and three mutt living in poor conditions are recorded for Torsholt . Assumptions that the name Torsholt goes back to a Germanic place of worship for the thunder god Thor cannot be proven.

The first school was founded in Torsholt in 1751. Before that, the students attended the school in Mansie . In 1971 the Torsholt school site was closed and the building has served as a village community center since 1977.

Supraregional perception

In 2012 Torsholt took part in the competition Our village has a future . As the winner in the Weser Ems Ost district , it qualified for the Lower Saxony state competition and was honored there for “special achievements”.

Nationally known Torsholt was also by the docu-soap The heart of Ammerland the NDR television in 2011, the engineers Dierks , landlady of Torsholter Gasthof Dierks accompanied. In the three episodes of the series, in addition to the everyday life of the landlady, appearances by “Bone Breaker” Tamme Hanken , show hypnotist “Pharo” and singer Andreas Martin are shown.

literature

  • Hermann Ries: Chronicle of the community Westerstede . Plois Verlag, Westerstede 1973.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Short portrait on the website of the city of Westerstede. Retrieved January 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The jury won over with teamwork. In: NWZOnline.de. June 9, 2012, accessed February 15, 2013 .
  3. ^ Rolling drums for the villages. In: NWZOnline.de. November 30, 2012, accessed February 15, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Press release of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk. September 12, 2011, accessed February 15, 2013 .