Warsingsfehn

Warsingsfehn municipality Moormerland Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ′ 52 ″ N , 7 ° 29 ′ 9 ″ E
Height :	1 (0.3-4) m above sea level NN
Area :	12.6 km²
Residents :	7951 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	631 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	26802
Area code :	04954
	Moormerland in the district of Leer

The mill in Warsingsfehn

Warsingsfehn is a village and the main town of the Moormerland community in the district of Leer in Lower Saxony . The formerly independent municipality, to which the districts of Rorichmoor and Warsingsfehnpolder also belonged, has formed the municipality of Moormerland together with ten other villages since the municipal reform in 1973. On December 31, 2016, the place had 7,951 inhabitants on an area of 12.60 km², making it the most populous part of the municipality.

history

The place Warsingsfehn was in the 18th century as a Moor colony created, the district Rorichmoor however, is much older. It was mentioned in 1577 as the Rohermoor residential area. It is a settlement in the moor in the village of Rorichum, west of the Ems . During the Christmas flood of 1717 , the place was flooded and then moved to its current, higher location.

The Fehnort Warsingsfehn was born on November 16, 1736. On this date, the landowner Dr. Gerhard Warsing a high moor area of 225 hectares in long lease. He let go of his Good Sieve on a Heuwieke mentioned side depth of Fehntjer lows from one channel to the southeast dig the drain the land is leased and at the same time as a transport route for were dug to serve peaty soil. Under his son Hermann Warsing, the leasehold area was expanded again: in 1769 by 50 hectares, in 1776 by 62 hectares and in 1779 by ten hectares.

The Warsings gave the land on the canal and on the side canals that had been laid out at right angles to sub-tenants. They cultivated the moor by first peeling off the upper layer of white peat and then digging the black peat below, which is used as fuel. The peat was then transported by barge as heating material to the surrounding cities, especially Emden and Leer. After the black peat layer had been excavated, the white peat layer was put back onto the bog soil. Since it is not very productive, it was mixed with manure from animals from the marshes of East Frisia and fertilized in this way. The bog settlers, however, were usually only able to make a modest living.

Many Fehntjer therefore switched to shipping early on: while in 1751 five smaller peat ships and four other inland vessels were based on the Warsingsfehn canals, the number rose to 31 peat ships by 1816. In order to generate additional sources of income, however, the captains also drove in small sea traffic between ports on the North Sea coast. In 1816, in addition to the peat ships, there were also twelve seagoing ships at Warsingsfehn. By the end of the 19th century, their number rose to a total of 82, before the advent of steam shipping made competition for the small sailors, against whom they could not stand. In addition to the captains and owners, many sailors from Warsingsfehn also went to sea.

Agriculture, which was mostly part-time anyway, was able to feed the residents less and less. The cultivated area increased from 90 to 205 hectares between 1816 and 1831 alone. At the end of the 19th century, however, there were hardly any cultivable bog areas left. Therefore, especially in the last three decades of the 19th century, there was a wave of emigration to the USA , more than 100 Fehntjer left their village.

Due to the social structure (bog colonists, seafarers) there has been clear support for the SPD in Warsingsfehn since the emergence of the workers' movement , and in the Weimar Republic also for the KPD . However, especially since the Reichstag elections in May 1924, this has always been countered by considerable votes from right-wing parties. In the Reichstag elections in July 1932, the NSDAP was 50 percent ahead of the SPD (25.2 percent) and the KPD (17 percent). In second place, however, was the strictly evangelical Christian-Social People's Service .

During the time of National Socialism, functionaries of the SPD and KPD were exposed to political persecution. Nine people whose place of birth or place of residence was Warsingsfehn were killed in the concentration camps of Auschwitz , Sobibor and Kauen .

After the Second World War , the community of Warsingsfehn accepted only a few displaced persons from the eastern regions of the German Empire in a comparison across East Friesland and Lower Saxony , as the agricultural basis in the bog colony was not comparable with that in the marshes.

On the occasion of the Lower Saxony municipal reform, Warsingsfehn was united with the surrounding communities on January 1, 1973 to form the new large community of Moormerland. When asked about the location of the municipal administration, Warsingsfehn prevailed against the neighboring town of Neermoor: Although Warsingsfehn is one of the youngest villages in the municipality of Moormerland, it had already grown into by far the largest in the early 1970s.

religion

The Evangelical Lutheran residents were originally assigned to the Hatshausen parish. In 1892 a separate parish of Warsingsfehn was formed for Westwarsingsfehn and Ostwarsingsfehn, which initially remained a subsidiary of Hatshausen. The pastoral business was carried out by a parish collaborator. In 1900 the parish became independent and the parish collaboration was converted into a parish office.

politics

Warsingsfehn is politically represented by a 9-member local council.

The local mayor is Bettina Stöhr (SPD).

literature

Rita Badewien: Moormerland in transition
Kannegieter, Bockelmann u. a .: Warsingsfehn 1736-1986. 250 years of fencing history. 2nd edition, empty, ISBN 3928612-05-0

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Moormerland - NBG current brochure, page 32 - An overview of the districts. In: pdf file (9.3 MB) on moormerland.de. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .
^ History of the community of Moormerland. In: moormerland.de. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Rita Badewien / Constanze Böttcher (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape): Warsingsfehn (PDF file; 661 kB), accessed on January 12, 2013.
^ 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. 262 .
^ Reimers: Warsingsfehn . In: Philipp Meyer: The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation . Volume 2. Göttingen 1942, p. 478.
^ Local council Warsingsfehn

[1] Moormerland - NBG current brochure, page 32 - An overview of the districts. In: pdf file (9.3 MB) on moormerland.de. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .

[2] History of the community of Moormerland. In: moormerland.de. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .

[Badewien-3] Rita Badewien / Constanze Böttcher (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape): Warsingsfehn (PDF file; 661 kB), accessed on January 12, 2013.

[4] 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. 262 .

[5] Reimers: Warsingsfehn . In: Philipp Meyer: The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation . Volume 2. Göttingen 1942, p. 478.

[6] Local council Warsingsfehn