Werdenum (East Frisia)

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′  N , 7 ° 12 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Aurich
Joint municipality :	Brookmerland
Height :	0 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.94 km 2
Residents:	999 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	67 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26529
Area code :	04920
License plate :	AUR, NOR
Community key :	03 4 52 026
Association administration address:	Am Markt 10 26529 Marienhafe
Mayor :	Lenhard Janssen ( SPD )
Location of the community of Werdenum (East Friesland) in the Aurich district

The East Frisian Werdenum is a municipality in the district of Aurich . It is part of the Brookmerland Congregation . Willum has 999 inhabitants.

geography

Aerial photo of Willum

The Warfendorf Werdenum covers an area of ​​13.86 square kilometers. Werdenum is about 13 kilometers north of Emden and seven kilometers southwest of Marienhafe.

The Dorfwarf rises to heights of up to 5.2 meters above sea ​​level (NN). It is located in the middle of a Kalkmarschgebiet, which is bordered in the south and west by a zone with Kleimarsch.

Werdenum is located on the Werdenumer Tief, a branch canal that branches off from the old Greetsieler Sieltief and connects Werdenum with the East Frisian canal network.

history

Werdenum is considered to be one of the oldest quarry villages in the region. For the first time it will be in the 8th / 9th Century mentioned as Vurtheim in a document. The place was created on the edge of a now silted up bay, through which there was direct access to the open sea. During the Middle Ages, Willum was an important seat of chiefs. From the late 12th century, the ancestral seat of the old East Frisian chief family Beninga , whose most prominent offspring is the chronicler Eggerik Beninga , was built on the bank of the bay . Due to its location, Willum subsequently developed into a regionally important trading center, whose landing stage was artificially kept free for ships of greater depth. With the dike in the bay and the subsequent silting of the sea access, Willum lost its strategic importance. The castle was severely damaged for the first time in the dispute over supremacy in East Friesland, which took place between the tom Brok and the Ukena and later the Cirksena and the Ukena with their respective partisans and allies. The Beninga were allied with the defeated Ukenas at this time. A punitive expedition of the Hamburg allies with the Cirksena to fight the piracy tolerated by the East Frisian chiefs finally sealed the end of the castle and the rule of the Beninga in 1426. The family then moved to Grimersum, where they built a new castle, the remains of which only disappeared in the 20th century.

Willum Church

There were also close relationships with Aland Monastery , which the Premonstratensians from Steinfeld probably founded in the middle of the 12th century. Around 1300 monks of this monastery ordered the construction of the Werdenum church as a branch church of Aland. Possibly they were also involved in the construction of the Marienkirche in Marienhafe , the capital of the Brookmerland . The monastery cultivated large estates in Werdenum and the surrounding area. After the Reformation , the last provost Johannes Oldeguil began working as a Protestant preacher in Aurich from 1528. In 1565 a large part of the land was leased by the East Frisian Countess Anna . Later the monastery was owned by Chancellor Franzius and from 1624 by Chancellor Wiarda. After his death it was bought by the East Frisian Count House in 1637 for 7,000 guilders and transferred to domains . Today the farms Aland, Kloster Aland, Meer Aland and Weel-Aland are located on the site of the former monastery.

The religious talk to which Countess Anna invited on May 10th 1552 at the instigation of the Emden preachers Gellius Faber and Hermann Brassius was important for the history of the East Frisian church . In doing so, the dispute over the interpretation of the Lord's Supper should be settled. The result of the conversation between the two Emden and three Norder pastors was the Formula Wirumana , which was developed under Faber's lead. She was not granted permanent success.

During the reign of the Cirksena, the community belonged to the Greetsiel office . In 1885 it was added to the district of Emden and, after its division in 1932, to the district of Norden . This was dissolved on January 31, 1978. Since then, the community has been part of the Aurich district . The Brookmerland Congregation was founded on August 1, 1969 and initially consisted of seven member congregations. Since the connections of Welfum to Brookmerland were more intensive than those to Krummhörn, the community decided in 1971 to join Brookmerland.

To this day, Werdenum is characterized by agriculture. Most of the companies are only operated as a sideline.

Development of the place name

After the first documentary mention as Vurtheim in the 8./9. In the 19th century, the name Wirthum has been handed down from 1381 . The current spelling has been used since 1426. The name is interpreted as the dative plural of the old Frisian word werth , werd , wirth (= terrain elevation ). A combination of the term with home, according to which Willum would stand for a house on a Wurt , is however unlikely.

Population development

As Warfendorf, Becum was originally a clustered settlement . This is increasingly developing into a scattered settlement . There was a surge in population development after the end of the Second World War. Of the 997 inhabitants of Willum in 1946, 222 were refugees. This corresponded to a share of 22.2 percent. A quota that rose minimally to 22.8 percent by 1950.

year Population. 1821 549 1848 725 1871 743 1885 648 1905 676 1925 668 1933 705

year population 1939 770 1946 997 1950 999 1956 823 1961 886 1970 991 2008 1050

Attractions

The stone house on the Warfrand

The Evangelical Reformed church in Willum was built around 1300 as a branch church of the Aland monastery and was originally consecrated to Johannes . The most valuable piece of furniture in the church is the elaborately crafted pulpit that Hinrich Cröpelin from Esens created in 1699.

The remains of the former Beninga moated castle are located on two terps between Werdenum and Grimersum . It was researched in 1999 and 2000. Accordingly, the system was divided into two parts. In the east was the fortified tower, in the west a hall building over 30 meters long. The entire complex was surrounded by a ditch that had access to the sea.

The later Bismarckshof on the Warfrand von Werdenum was built as a stone house in the late 16th century . It was badly damaged several times but was rebuilt again and again.

The double-piston water pump mill built in 1872 is more recent . Originally it served to drain the often low-lying pasture areas, later also to supply the cattle with water. It was shut down in 1919, restored between 1986 and 1988 and erected in front of the Drennhusen farm at the entrance to the village in 1988. It is the only functioning mill of its kind in Germany.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the community of Werdenum consists of eleven council women and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of a joint municipality with a population of 1001 to 2000 inhabitants. The eleven council members are elected by local elections for five years each. The last term began on November 1, 2011 and ended on October 31, 2016.

The penultimate local election on September 11, 2011 resulted in the following result:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats	Change voices	Change seats
Social Unit List Willum (SEW)	60.62%	7th	−5.5%	0
SPD	39.37%	4th	+5.5%	0

The turnout in the 2011 local elections was 60.29%, well above the Lower Saxony average of 52.5%. For comparison - in the previous local election on September 10, 2006, the turnout was 69.85%.

mayor

Lenhard Janssen (SPD) was elected as the new mayor in November 2016. Mr Janssen has been a member of the Council since 1981.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Split between red and gold; in front a gold-armored, gold-tongued silver lion, behind a blue abbot with fluttering blue velum . "

The silver lion is taken from the coat of arms of the Beninga chief family . The abbot's staff with the crook and the blessing veil represents the former Premonstratensian monastery of Aland, while the colors blue and gold indicate that the community belongs to the former district of Norden .

education

The Willum Primary School is one of five primary schools in the Brookmerland community. It is attended by around 40 students who come from the village of Werdenum and the surrounding area. The staff consists of four teachers, a seconded colleague and two pedagogical staff. Most of the school beginners had previously attended the local kindergarten. There are secondary schools in Marienhafe.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Lümko Iderhoff (1856–1931), German district administrator and politician

See also

• Willum (Friesland)
• Werdenum (Groningen)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape : Werdenum, Samtgemeinde Brookmerland, district Aurich (PDF file; 58 kB), accessed on December 10, 2012.
3. ↑ Josef Dolle: Aland . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 1, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3-89534-957-7 , pp. 5-7
4. ^ Ostfriesen-Zeitung from June 18, 2000: Fortified castle with a tower .
5. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 3, 2011
6. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Werdenum - overall results of the 2011 municipal council election , accessed on December 3, 2011
7. ↑ Downward trend in voter turnout stopped. In: ndr.de . September 12, 2011, archived from the original on August 25, 2013 ; accessed on December 2, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Municipality of Werdenum - overall results of the 2006 municipal council election , accessed on December 3, 2011

Web links

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

• Homepage of the joint community Brookmerland