Wiltshausen
Wiltshausen is a village in the Loga district of Leer . It is located at the mouth of the Jümme in the Leda .
history
Wiltshausen was built in a strategically favorable location on the so-called Lüdeweg . This connected Westphalia with the East Frisian trading town of Emden and crossed the Jümme between Amdorf and Wiltshausen, which to this day can only be crossed by ferry.
During the time of National Socialism in 1938/1939 Jews from Vienna were used as forced laborers to raise the levees on Leda and Jümme. The Jews, mostly people with a higher education, were housed in two camps: in Wiltshausen, in what is now the city of Leer, and in Terheide, between Detern and Potshausen. There was hardly any contact with the local population.
Attractions
There is a mooring point for the Pünte , which is considered to be the oldest hand-drawn ferry in Northern Europe. The Fährprahm was first mentioned in 1562 for the first time and connects Wiltshausen with the located just across the river Amdorf. With the Pünte, up to three cars and 30 passengers can be transported over the Jümme. Every year the Pünte is used by around 11,000 cyclists, 4,500 pedestrians, 450 motorcycles and 400 cars, but it is only of tourist importance. The ferry season opens every year on May 1st with thousands of visitors, similar to a folk festival.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul Weßels : The Jewish labor camps 1939 in the district of Leer , in: Heinrich Schmidt / Wolfgang Schwarz / Martin Tielke (ed.): Tota Frisia in Teilansichten - Festschrift for Hajo van Lengen , Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 2005, p. 447-472.
- ↑ puentenverein.de: Pünten-Blattje spring 2015 , accessed on February 12, 2016 (1.2 MB).
Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ′ 25.9 ″ N , 7 ° 31 ′ 33.8 ″ E