Upjever

Upjever City of Schortens Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 40 ″  N , 7 ° 53 ′ 1 ″  E
Residents :	234  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code :	26419
Area code :	04461

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

history

The name Upjever is mentioned for the first time in 1420 in the so-called Stader Kopiar, a Bremen archdeaconate register . In this list of all churches in Friesland, a Curia in Upjevere is listed as the church's farm .

There were several farms in Upjever until the 16th century. Maria von Jever initiated the construction of today's Upjevers forest here . In 1935 the character of Upjever changed fundamentally with the construction of an air base . The airbase Jever began operations on May 1, 1936th The population of Schortens rose sharply through the settlement of the airport personnel.

Public facilities

Entrance to the air base, 1986

Jever Air Base has existed since May 1, 1936 . It was used by the various units of the Luftwaffe and the Wehrmacht during the Second World War . After the end of the war, former forced laborers were quartered there, then the air base was used by Danish units and the British Royal Air Force . In 1961, the air base was handed over to the German Armed Forces , which carried out regular flight operations here again from 1964.

On August 31, 2005 the Fighter Bomber Squadron 38 "Friesland" stationed there since 1983 was disbanded. On June 30, 2006, the Air Force's object protection battalion was disbanded and instead the “Friesland” object protection regiment was put into service at the air base .

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

Commons : Upjever  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City of Schortens - Upjever

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. 
2. ↑ Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986–1987. Volume 3, page 352
3. ^ Jever Air Base , accessed on January 23, 2011