Wiarden

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Wiarden
Wangerland municipality
Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 4 ″  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 3 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 26434
Area code : 04463
Wiarden (Lower Saxony)
Wiarden

Location of Wiarden in Lower Saxony
Church of St. Cosmas and Damian Wiarden from the east
Church of St. Cosmas and Damian Wiarden from the east

Wiarden is a district of the municipality of Wangerland in the district of Friesland in the north of Lower Saxony .

geography

The village of Wiarden is located in Jeverland . The North Sea coast is 6 kilometers to the north. The jade with access to the North Sea flows east 5 kilometers away. The place is 14 kilometers north of Wilhelmshaven , 2 kilometers west of the road that leads from Wilhelmshaven via Hooksiel to Horumersiel and Schillig .

Attractions

church

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Cosmas and Damian is said to have existed as early as 1164. It is a Romanesque granite block building , including remains of wall paintings from the 13th century.

Club life

literature

  • Friedrich Gustav Hahn: Topographical Guide through Northwestern Germany. Verlag Veit & Company, Leipzig 1895 (reprint of the original edition: Verlag Hansebooks, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3743437012 ), p. 243 f. ( Digital library , accessed April 23, 2016).
  • Wangerland history workshop with the participation of the village community: Wiarden, chronicle of an old parish . Hohenkirchen 2002.

Web links

Commons : Wiarden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FF Wiarden , accessed on April 10, 2018.