Wagnersfehn
Wagnersfehn is a village and part of the municipality of Moorweg , which in turn is a member of the Esens municipality in the East Frisian district of Wittmund .
history
The place appears for the first time in 1789 as Wageners Vehn in the documents. The place name is derived from the surname of the founder, Wag (e) ner, and the usual suffix -fehn for bog colonies .
The entrepreneur JG Wagener founded the moor colony in 1771. According to other sources, his wife had the place laid out in 1770 on the basis of the reclamation edict issued by Friedrich II . The site was to be developed along the lines of Dutch fen colonies. In order to drain her colony, Christine Adelheit Wagener had a water mill built around 1780 and the construction of the canal advanced. The water was to be channeled through this artificially created mill depression via the Alte Klostertief to Bensersiel and finally into the North Sea . Her husband recruited Palatine colonists on the left Lower Rhine for the settlement . A fire destroyed the mill after only a few years. As a result, the owner ran into financial difficulties and had to sell the colony. The canal construction came to a standstill. Due to the inadequate drainage , the new settlers found very poor conditions, so that the majority of them emigrated and settled on a heather on the way to Aurich in the settlements of Plaggenburg and Pfalzdorf .
In 1848 Wagnersfehn had 147 inhabitants, who were spread over 30 residential buildings. Around 1850 the Esens-Wittmunder Canal, later renamed Benser Tief, was built by Wagnersfehn.
In 1972 the former municipality of Wagnersfehn merged with the villages of Altgaude, Kloster Schoo, Neugaude and Westerschoo to form the municipality of Moorweg. Large areas of the village have formed the Benser Tief landscape protection area since the 1970s . The Ochsenweide has been a nature reserve since 1980. As a result of rewetting , a raised bog "of European rank" was created there. Parts of the Schafhausen Forest and the Ochsenweide are also designated as FFH areas , part of the landscape protection area east of the Flachsweg is considered a valuable area for fauna . After the gaps in the town center in particular were built on in the 1970s, the municipality of Moorweg also designated new building areas from the 1990s.
Infrastructure
In Wagnersfehn there is a pumping station opened by Sielacht Esens in 2010 , which is responsible for draining an area of around 5,500 hectares of land at the transition from the Geest to the Marsch . The two pumps of the Wagnersfehn pumping station together transport around 8.8 cubic meters per second in the direction of Bensersiel if necessary. The construction of the plant cost around 2.5 million euros.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Arend Remmers : From Aaltukerei to Zwischenmooren. The settlement names between Dollart and Jade. Verlag Schuster, Leer 2004, ISBN 3-7963-0359-5 , p. 111
- ↑ Archeology AG of the Lower Saxony boarding high school in Esens under the direction of Axel Heinze: The mill of Mrs. Wagener ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. . Retrieved October 23, 2015.
- ↑ a b c d Municipality of Moorweg: Moorweg, Samtgemeinde. Esens, Wittmund district . Retrieved on October 23, 2015. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft: Moorweg, Samtgemeinde. Esens, Witmund district . Retrieved October 23, 2015.
- ↑ Manfred Stolle: Wagnersfehn pumping station officially in operation . In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung of May 118, 2010. Retrieved on October 23, 2015.
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 28 " N , 7 ° 35 ′ 24" E