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Westrum village center: Former rectory and church
Westrumer Church (south side)
Westrumer Church (north side)

Westrum is a warf village in Wangerland , Friesland district . Its beginnings go back to the 7th century.

location

The following formerly independent municipalities border the former municipality of Westrum: Wiefels in the west , Tetten and Oldorf in the north and Waddewarden in the east . In a southerly direction Westrum meets the border of the district town of Jever . These municipal boundaries are largely based on the natural conditions that the Frisian settlers found in the 7th century. To the east and north was an arm of the Crildum Bay , which was created as a result of the sea ingress around the time of the birth of Christ. The Crildumer Tief , a watercourse that flowed into the North Sea at Crildumersiel , is still reminiscent of this bay . Another old watercourse, the Nenndorfer Tief , is located on the eastern border of the former municipality of Westrum. In the south, the Geest promontory , on which the city of Jever lies, was a natural boundary line.

The Westrumer Dorfwarf rises about 4.30 m above sea level. It was increased by a meter by a church hill. The wharf covers a total of three hectares with a diameter of almost 200 meters.

Westrum is connected to the Wangerland road network via the Lower Saxony state road 812 . It leads from Jever via Waddewarden to Schmidtshörn. At the level of the Westrum settlement area Brakerei , a local road branches off that leads to Dorfwarf, circles it to the southwest, connects other settlement areas west of Westrum and joins the L 808 between Wiefels and Wichtens . At the level of the state road there is also the stop of a local public bus, which serves the route Jever - Hohenkirchen and Jever - Hooksiel in both directions several times a day . The nearest train station is also in Jever.

history

In 1990 two geological drillings were carried out east of the Kirchenwarf, the results of which were supplemented by a smaller archaeological excavation in the area of ​​the core village in 1999. On the basis of these and other studies in the neighborhood, the beginnings of Westrum building can be estimated at the 7th century. Finds of imported and domestic ceramic vessels point to the 11th and 12th centuries. Some of the archaeological finds suggest trade relations with the Rhineland and the Baltic Sea region and are indications of the prosperity of the Westrum peasantry at that time.

In the 11th century, the construction of the dyke began, which made the permanent increase in village litter unnecessary. The dike was initially created as a ring dike and enclosed the marshland between the warp settlements of Reiseburg, Herzhausen, Strakens, Schreiersort, Rickelhausen and Westrum. The coastal area between Harle and Jade was closed in the 13th century. During the Christmas flood of 1717 , when the dikes broke in many places and over 1300 people died in Jeverland alone , Westrum was spared.

The oldest evidence of Christian life in Westrum can be dated to the turn of the first to the second millennium. A stone sarcophagus , which was discovered recently during excavation work near the church and can now be viewed in the church, can be dated to the 11th century. Another found stone coffin lid, which does not belong to the sarcophagus, is older and bears Christian insignia, including a lecture cross and shepherds' crooks .

church

Prospectus of the Führer organ

In the center of the village is the Evangelical Lutheran St. Elisabeth Church . It dates from the middle of the 13th century and is a single-nave Romanesque hall church with an apse facing east . The exterior of the church was heavily changed during the renovation in 1912 and appears as a modern brick building. During archaeological excavations in connection with the last restoration, which took place from 1986 to 1988, high and late medieval graves were found in the heating ducts . Old remains of the foundation also came to light. These finds give rise to the assumption that at least two previous buildings stood on the Kirchenwurt, a wooden church from the 11th century and a stone church built with granite blocks and bricks from the 12th century. The original patronage of the church is unknown. The current name Elisabeth Church , which reminds of Elisabeth of Thuringia , was given to the church in 1999. The two bells, which are located in a bell tower leaning against the west wall, were cast in 1761 and 1798. They come from the workshop of the Fremy bell foundry family, originally from Lorraine , who came to East Friesland as Huguenot refugees via the Netherlands and lived near Burhafe in the 18th and 19th centuries . There is also a medieval holy water font on the west wall of the church .

One of the special sights inside the church is the altar , the structure of which shows the crucified Christ and two of the New Testament evangelists to the right and left of the crucified one . It was built in 1910 by Wilhelm Larsen in Art Nouveau style. An earlier old essay, on which the words of the institution of the Last Supper can be read, is on the north side of the church. The rectangular baptism was made in 1648. It is made of oak and stands on the base of a Romanesque baptismal font . The pulpit, consisting of a pulpit and an octagonal sound cover, is decorated with neo-Gothic rod filling. The stalls with carved cheeks and doors date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The church organ was built in 1938 in the Wilhelmshaven organ workshop Führer . It is Alfred Führer's masterpiece .

Settlements around Westrum

The place includes the residential areas or courtyards Bohneterei, Brakerei, Domain (Westrum / Rickelhausen), Herzhausen, Kattens, Neuenkrug, Reiseburg, Rickelhausen, Sorgenfrei and Strakens.

Personalities

literature

  • Chronicle Community Westrum (ed.): Westrum - once the smallest community in Jeverland , Jever 2008.
  • Rolf Schäfer (Ed.): Guide through the churches of Waddewarden and Westrum , Oldenburg o. J. (Ed. In connection with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kunst der Oldenburgische Landschaft )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical-geographical studies on the early history of the dike in the Wangerland, Ldkr. Friesland ( Memento of the original of August 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on May 22, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nihk.de
  2. ↑ Chronikgemeinschaft Westrum (ed.): Westrum - once the smallest community in Jeverland , Jever 2008, p. 5 f.
  3. ↑ Chronikgemeinschaft Westrum (ed.): Westrum - once the smallest community in Jeverland , Jever 2008, p. 7.
  4. ↑ On the Fremy bell foundry, see Die Glocke (the Fulkumer Church) , Fulkum.de, accessed on January 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ Rolf Schäfer (Ed.): Guide through the churches of Waddewarden and Westrum , Oldenburg o. J., p. 21 f.
  6. ↑ Archive.is: Westrum ( Memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ); accessed on January 27, 2014.

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '  N , 7 ° 55'  E