Wüppels

Wüppels is a warf village in the former Crildum Bay . Until 1933, what was then the “second smallest church and political community in Jeverland ” was independent. Subsequently, Wüppels first belonged to the municipality of Minsen and then to Hooksiel . Since 1972, the village has been part of the large municipality of Wangerland , which was formed in the course of municipal reform and belongs to the district of Friesland in Lower Saxony .

Surname

A mention by name of the terp village as Wyppense can be documented for the first time in 1350. As Woppelencze , Wyppelszen or Wyppelencze it is found in the Stader Kopiar around 1420. After 1460 one reads in a document tho Weplensen and 1587 seesawing and Wippels . The name Wüppels , which is still in use today, appears for the first time around 1800 .

geography

Wüppels church and village yard around 1790
Watercolor by E. Ch. Dunker (1735–1817)

The place is 2 kilometers west of Hooksiel , off the Wüppelser Altendeich road ( L 810 ), which leads from Hooksiel to Horumersiel . The center of the place is the so-called Wüppelser Kirchdorf , which lies on a north-south running Langwarft in the middle of the former Crildum Bay . It is about 300 meters long and 90 meters wide and consists of individual core worms that have grown together over the course of long history. The Wüppels church stands on its own terp. This leans against the long warft, but towers above it by a few meters.

Around the church village there are scattered settlement areas, some of which have also been built on terps. Wüppels was originally located in the Crildum Bay, which reached far into the Wangerland, but has completely disappeared over the centuries due to dike measures. Only the Crildumer Tief watercourse and the town of Crildumersiel still remind of them today.

history

Archaeological excavations, which the Wilhelmshaven-based Institute for Historical Coastal Research carried out in 1993/94 as part of the so-called Wangerland project , show that the history of the village of Wüppels goes back to the 11th century AD. Among other things, a three-aisled stable house was found , the floor plan of which was completely exposed. Dendrochronological studies indicate the time around 1120.

The late Romanesque church was built towards the end of the 13th century. A church patron of the Wüppels church was mentioned for the first time in 1350. From 1420 the parish belonged to the Sendgericht Hohenkirchen . Wüppels became the chief's seat around 100 years before this. It is assumed that this was about one kilometer northeast of the town center on a now uninhabited terp and was a successor to the Oldeborg, which was destroyed in armed conflict in 1149 . The chief family of the Folkmaringe is said to have built their estate there as early as the first half of the 14th century .

Attractions

Wüppelser Church (south side)

Fischhausen Castle

The old village of Wüppels still shows some of the houses that made up the villages in the past. Around the village square are the Evangelical Lutheran church, school, village jug, poor house, sexton's house and pastorei.

The church has a single nave, flat roofed nave and was built in the late 13th century. The wooden beam ceiling as well as the adjacent bell tower date from the 17th century. The pulpit with Moses as the pulpit bearer, the altarpiece and the ornate baptismal font (made of wood!) Indicate great rural craftsmanship. The grave slabs of the chiefs of Fischhausen Castle deserve special attention. In 1909, the Wüppels parish was combined with the St. Joost parish to form a parish. Together with Pakens- Hooksiel it forms a community parish office.

The privately owned Fischhausen Castle is located in the area of the village of Wüppels. The core of the complex is a stone house that was converted into a two-story residential palace with an onion dome in 1578. The castle can only be viewed from the outside.

Personalities

Peter von Bohlen

Peter von Bohlen (born March 9, 1796 in Wüppels; † February 6, 1840 in Halle (Saale) ) was an orientalist and one of the pioneers of Sanskrit studies in Germany.
Johann Ulrich Folkers (born March 12, 1887 in Krummhörn near Wüppels, † January 16, 1960 in Jever ) was a history teacher , folklorist and National Socialist racial theorist .

literature

Wüppels. In: Almuth Salomon (edit.): Explanatory booklet on the historical and cultural excursion map of Lower Saxony. Sheet Wangerland / Hooksiel-West. (Eds .: Ehrhard Kühlhorn and Gerhard Streich; publications by the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen; 2, part 10), Hildesheim 1986, ISBN 3-7848-3630-5 ; P. 134
Wüppels. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 ; P. 1420 f.
Erhard Ahlrichs : Wüppels. Frisian idyll in the Wangerland. Isensee, Oldenburg 1994, ISBN 3-89442-201-7 ; 56 p. M. Fig.
Wangerland history workshop: 1000 years of Wüppels. The story of a parish in the Marsch , Wangerland 1998
Axel Bürgener , Klaus Siewert: Saalkirchen im Wangerland , Verlag "Auf der Warft", Münster - Hamburg - Wiarden 2015, ISBN 978-3-939211-97-6 , pp. 142 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Edmund Harms: Wüppels 60 years ago , in: The history calendar for the year 1949 , Verlag CL Mettcker & Söhne, Jever 1948, p. 29 f.

↑ Wangerland history workshop: 1000 years of Wüppels. The story of a parish in the march , Wangerland 1998, p. 2

^ Erwin Strahl, Albrecht Eckhardt, Jürgen Tautz: Wüppels local article . In Oldenburg local dictionary. Archeology, geography and history of the Oldenburg country (Ed. Albrecht Eckhardt). Oldenburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-89995-757-0 . P. 1155 (Sp I) -1157 (Sp II); here: p. 1155 (column II)

↑ Erwin Strahl: Medieval Landscape Development and Settlement History of the Marsch in Wangerland ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on April 11, 2011

↑ Unless otherwise stated, the information in this section is based on Erwin Strahl, Albrecht Eckhardt, Jürgen Tautz: Ortsartikel Wüppels . In Oldenburg local dictionary. Archeology, geography and history of the Oldenburg country (Ed. Albrecht Eckhardt). Oldenburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-89995-757-0 . P. 1155 (column I) - 1157 (column II)

↑ Erwin Strahl provides more information about the Wüppels residential stable house : The three-aisled residential stable house on the German North Sea coast - a new find from Wüppels, Gde. Wangerland, Lkrs. Friesland (Germany) ( Memento of September 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), on the Ruralia.cz website, accessed on May 26, 2017

53.63747 7.979507Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 14.9 " N , 7 ° 58 ′ 46.2" E

[1] Edmund Harms: Wüppels 60 years ago , in: The history calendar for the year 1949 , Verlag CL Mettcker & Söhne, Jever 1948, p. 29 f.

[2] Wangerland history workshop: 1000 years of Wüppels. The story of a parish in the march , Wangerland 1998, p. 2

[3] Erwin Strahl, Albrecht Eckhardt, Jürgen Tautz: Wüppels local article . In Oldenburg local dictionary. Archeology, geography and history of the Oldenburg country (Ed. Albrecht Eckhardt). Oldenburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-89995-757-0 . P. 1155 (Sp I) -1157 (Sp II); here: p. 1155 (column II)

[4] Erwin Strahl: Medieval Landscape Development and Settlement History of the Marsch in Wangerland ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on April 11, 2011

[5] Unless otherwise stated, the information in this section is based on Erwin Strahl, Albrecht Eckhardt, Jürgen Tautz: Ortsartikel Wüppels . In Oldenburg local dictionary. Archeology, geography and history of the Oldenburg country (Ed. Albrecht Eckhardt). Oldenburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-89995-757-0 . P. 1155 (column I) - 1157 (column II)