Wildenloh

Wildenloh municipality Edewecht Coordinates: 53 ° 7 ′ 43 "  N , 8 ° 8 ′ 4"  E
Height :	6 m above sea level NN
Residents :	832  (Jun. 30, 2015)
Postal code :	26188
Area code :	04486
Location of Wildenloh in Lower Saxony

Wildenloh is a part of the municipality of Edewecht in the Lower Saxony district of Ammerland . It is bordered to the north by the the municipality of Bad Zwischenahn belonging Petersfehn , on the east by the districts Bloherfelde and Eversten the city of Oldenburg and the southwest to the which also belongs to Edewecht Friedrichsfehn until an independent when the place belonged, on 4 August 1986 Became a peasantry .

history

The place is named after the state forest of the same name Wildenloh , on the north-eastern edge of which the settlement is located. This is presumably the remainder of an extensive forest area that once stretched from Oldenburg to beyond Friedrichsfehn and Klein-Scharrel and sank into the expanding Wildenlohs Moor a good 8,000 years ago . Remains of this forest area are today's " Big Wildenloh " and the " Small Wildenloh as they are considered drier" Geest islands m the Ever Sterner Geest with a height of about 15 over NN protrude from the surrounding Wildenlohs Moor.

In the 17th century the drainage of the Wildenloh Moor began to make it usable for peat extraction. The starting point for the colonization of the Wildenlohsmoor was the construction of a road connection between Oldenburg and Edewecht that would cross the moor in a direct west-east direction . This path was completed by 1840. Around this time, Friedrichsfehn and Petersfehn were founded west of the "Kleiner Wildenloh" , the first settlement of the present-day village of Wildenloh took place at the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1973 the first fitness trail was set up in Wildenloh with funds from the German Sports Association . The area is still used intensively as a running track, including since 1981 for the annual Lop dwasch dörn Wildenloh running event . In addition, the Wildenloh is a local recreation area for the neighboring Oldenburg districts of Eversten and Bloherfelde as well as for the neighboring towns of Wildenloh, Petersfehn and Friedrichsfehn.

State forest Wildenloh

Today's forest area of ​​the Wildenloh covers around 190 hectares and offers a varied forest appearance due to different soil conditions. About 40% of the forest area is dominated by deciduous trees, with over 50 hectares dominated by oaks. The more easterly “Große Wildenloh” has a partly quite old oak and beech population (oldest oaks almost 220 years old), the more western “Kleine Wildenloh” is dominated by significantly younger oak populations. In between there is a lower, drained bog area, which was reforested with conifer species around 1900. On November 13, 1972, the "Große Wildenloh" in particular suffered extensive storm damage , which was repaired in the following years through oak reforestation.
The Lower Saxony Forestry Office in Neuchâtel (Zetel) is responsible.
The state forest of Wildenloh has been designated as a landscape protection area with a peripheral zone since 1957 under the number WST 00072 .

Legend of the creation of the Wildenloh forest

According to legend, the Wildenloh came into being after the Oldenburgers had built their first church. When the devil found out about it, he decided to destroy the city and the church with a forest, which he tore out of the ground at Zwischenahn at night . The break of morning, however, prevented this plan, and the devil had to drop the uprooted forest where the Wildenloh is today. But the place where the forest once was filled with water and the Zwischenahner Meer was created .

traffic

Is Wildenloh from the city bus 309 for transport and water as well as on the highway bus 380 (Oldenburg-Edewecht- Barßel ) of the Weser-Ems bus to the public transport connected.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Edewecht community as of June 30, 2015. Accessed on December 3, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} The youngest part of the community turns 25th In: NWZOnline.de. August 22, 2011, accessed February 28, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Georg Bredehorn: Eversten: From 1200 to the 20th century . Isensee-Verlag, Oldenburg 2001, ISBN 3-89598-750-6 , p. 414 f .
4. ↑ ^{a b} District Ammerland: Ordinance of March 21, 2007 on the landscape protection area "Forst Wildenloh". (PDF, 167 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 23, 2015 ; Retrieved March 26, 2013 . 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.  
5. ↑ The legend of Wildenloh. In: www.ammerland-touristik.de. Retrieved March 26, 2013 .