Westerhusen

Westerhusen Parish Hinte
Coordinates: 53 ° 24 '40 "  N , 7 ° 10' 51"  E
Height :	5.20 m above sea level NN
Residents :	320
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	26759
Area code :	04925

Westerhusen is a terp village with about 320 inhabitants in the municipality of Hinte / Ostfriesland , which is about five kilometers north of the city center of Emden .

history

First mentioned in the year 1000, the place is now known for the 15th-century Gothic style church . The jewel here is the organ built by Jost Sieburg between 1642 and 1643 and still fully operational today . A structural and historical feature of the church is the medieval hagioscope , a so-called leprosy fissure.

Westerhusen had been the seat of a chief since the 14th century at the latest. The Lords of Westerhusen built a castle , which Hamburg troops destroyed in the 15th century. During the Hanoverian period in East Frisia , Westerhusen was part of the Emden District (1824), which included the Larrelt Bailiwick and in turn the Larrelt Sub-Bailiwick, to which Wybelsum, Twixlum, Logumer Vorwerk, Groß Midlum and Freepsum belonged in addition to the main town and Westerhusen.

For centuries, the natural depths and drainage channels that crisscross the Krummhörn in a dense network were the most important modes of transport. Not only the villages but also many farms were connected to the city of Emden and the port of Greetsiel via ditches and canals. The boat traffic with Emden was particularly important. Village boatmen took over the supply of goods from the city and delivered agricultural products in the opposite direction: “From the Sielhafenort, smaller ships, so-called Loogschiffe, transported the cargo to the inland and supplied the marsh villages (loog = village). The Loogschiffe from the Krummhörn enlivened the canals of the city of Emden into the 20th century. ”As early as 1824, the cultural historian Fridrich Arends wrote in his description of the land of the Principality of East Friesland and the Harlingerland :“ There is no office more abundant than this with water. (…) In winter and spring, the grain and other goods are always transported by water both in this and in the Greetmer office, which is extremely useful in the case of the poor dirt roads in the season. "

Peat, which was mostly extracted in the East Frisian Fehnen , played an important role as heating material for the inhabitants of the Krummhörn for centuries . The peat ships brought the material on the East Frisian canal network to the Krummhörn villages, including Westerhusen. On their way back into the Fehnsiedlungen the Torfschiffer often took clay soil from the march and the manure of cattle with which they their home were dug fertilized land.

In April 1919 there were so-called "bacon removals" from Emden workers, which were followed by rioting on the farm workers. Together with the Rheiderland , the district of Emden was the part of East Frisia most affected by this unrest. Workers broke into the surrounding villages in closed trains and stole food from farmers in clashes. The situation only calmed down after the deployment of the Reichswehr troops stationed in the region . As a reaction to this, resident groups were formed in almost all villages in the Emden area . The Westerhusens Rescue Service comprised 50 people. These had 20 weapons. The resident services were only dissolved after a corresponding decree by the Prussian Interior Minister Carl Severing on April 10, 1920.

On July 1, 1972, Westerhusen was incorporated into the community of Hinte.

Attractions

Sights include the traditional East Frisian style van Hoorn coal trade and Dunker's water landscapes.

The cultural highlight of the year is the traditional Christmas market, which goes far back into the past and is also very popular in the region.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ingeborg Nöldeke: Hidden treasures in East Frisian village churches - hagioscopes, rood screens and sarcophagus lids - overlooked details from the Middle Ages . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7308-1048-4 , p. 118 f.
2. ^ Curt Heinrich Conrad Friedrich Jansen: Statistical Handbook of the Kingdom of Hanover 1824 . P. 165 f .; Text archive - Internet Archive .
3. ^ Harm Wiemann, Johannes Engelmann: Old streets and ways in East Friesland . Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 169 (East Frisia in the protection of the dyke; 8)
4. ↑ Fridrich Arends: Erdbeschreibung des Fürstenthums Ostfriesland and Harlingerland , Emden 1824, p. 279 ff., Textarchiv - Internet Archive .
5. ^ Gunther Hummerich: The peat shipping of the Fehntjer in Emden and the Krummhörn in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies in Ostfriesland , Volume 88/89 (2008/2009), pp. 142–173, here p. 163.
6. Jump up ↑ Hans Bernhard Eden: The Resident Services of Ostfriesland from 1919 to 1921. In: Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies Ostfriesland , Volume 65 (1985), pp. 81-134, here pp. 94, 98, 105, 114.
7. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 263 .