Victorbur

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Victorbur
Südbrookmerland municipality
The district does not have its own coat of arms
Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 26 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 2 m above sea level NN
Residents : 4044  (Jul 1, 2012)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 26624
Area code : 04942
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Location map of the municipality of Südbrookmerland
St. Victor Church
St. Victor Church

Victorbur ( Low German : Vitterbuur ) has been a district and the administrative seat of the municipality of Südbrookmerland in the district of Aurich in East Frisia since the municipal reform of July 1, 1972 . It consists of the villages of South Victorbur, East Victorbur and West Victorbur, as well as the eastern part of Victorbur-Upende. The district has about 4,000 inhabitants, making it the most populous of the municipality after Moordorf with around 6,500 inhabitants. The mayor is Schweer Goldenstein (SPD).

Location and area

Victorbur was originally a row settlement, which is now heavily sprawled due to the designation of new building areas. The village is about seven kilometers northwest of the district town of Aurich . Overall, the district covers an area of ​​12.11 square kilometers, which are located on elevations between about one meter above sea level in the west and 2.8 meters in the east.

history

Victorbur is a settlement that arose after the right to erect ( Ostfriesisches Platt : Upstreekrecht ). Possibly the first settlers were former residents of coastal areas, from which they avoided inland after storm surges. There they first laid paths through the moor. Then they began to develop the area on the right and left of the path. A settler could work, use, and dig the moor across the width of his property until he came across another farmer's parcel, a path, a body of water or a similar boundary. At the site of today's church, two previous wooden buildings were probably built in the 11th and 12th centuries. By 1250, the residents of Theene, Uthwerdum and Victorbur built the brick church that is still preserved today and consecrated it to Victor von Xanten, the town's patron saint. In the Brookmer Arbitration (1271) the place is called Victoris hove . The church district belonged to the four pacified legal areas of Brokmer and Auricherland, within which every wrongdoing was subject to a three-fold high penance.

Development of the place name

The village was first mentioned in 1251 as St. Victoris-Hofe . The name goes back to the church consecrated to St. Victor von Xanten. The -bur , added later, stands for a peasantry. The place name stands for the peasantry who have dedicated themselves to the veneration of St. Victor .

Attractions

The place owes its name to the church dedicated to St. Victor. The St. Victor Church is located in the west of Victorbur on a terp . The brick building, which is 57 meters long and 11 meters wide, has a single nave and is a choirless apsidic church . It was evidently built in several construction phases from 1220 to 1240. The altar from 1684 and the pulpit from 1697, which the master of wood cutting Hinrich Cröpelin from Esens created, are worth seeing . The organ prospectus was also created in Esens. It was built at the beginning of the 19th century by master organ builder Johann Gottfried Rohlfs .

Economy and Infrastructure

Victorbur has a fairly new town center with a market square, shops, banks, a volunteer fire brigade and a town hall. Not far from there is the Victorbur primary school. A special feature of this school was the three classrooms in the former East Victorbur school until a few years ago. Until recently, teachers and children operated the peat heating there themselves.

Victorbur is close to the Abelitz – Aurich railway line , on which freight traffic has been taking place again since April 2008. A reactivation for local rail passenger transport is under discussion, as is an extension of this railway line to Jever to enable a connection to the East Frisian Coast Railway (RB 59).

In 2015, Enercon announced that the company no longer needed to widen the route to transport its products. This also stopped the reactivation of passenger traffic on the Aurich-Emden route.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community of Südbrookmerland: Population figures , accessed on December 17, 2012
  2. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 260 .
  3. ^ Community of Südbrookmerland: Mayor , accessed on December 15, 2012
  4. ↑ a b Jürgen Hoogstraat, local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape: Victorbur, community Südbrookmerland, district Aurich (PDF; 582 kB), accessed on April 22, 2013.
  5. ↑ Enercon stops railway expansion. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .