Woltzeten
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Woltzeten
Krummhörn municipality
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| Height : | 3.5 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 3.74 km² |
| Residents : | 184 (December 31, 2012) |
| Population density : | 49 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 26736 |
| Primaries : | 04923, 04927 |
 Card of the Krummhörn
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Woltzeten is one of 19 localities in Krummhörn , the westernmost municipality in East Friesland and in the Aurich district . Woltzeten has 184 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012). The central building of the place is, as in many wreck villages, a small church with a bell tower. In 2005 Woltzeten was replaced by Woquard as the smallest town in the Krummhörn.
geography
The place is located in the heart of the municipality, three kilometers south of the capital and mayor's seat Pewsum and about eight kilometers northwest of the seaport city of Emden .
history
The place name probably comes from the Old Low German "wolden", which suggests that Woltzeten was at the time directly on a swamp area. The coat of arms also supports the assumption that the place was at least once on the water. The second central symbol of the coat of arms is the cross, which can probably be traced back to the Blauhaus monastery, which is known far beyond the local borders .
Woltzeten is mentioned for the first time around the year 1000 AD. The center of the classic round village is the small church from 1727. It replaced another church that previously stood in the same place. The special feature is the bell, which is housed in a separate tower in the cemetery. About two kilometers south of the village is the former Blauhaus monastery, built between 1509 and 1529, which was inhabited by nuns until the 17th century. It owes its name to the originally blue roof. Most of the monastery building is still standing and is now used as a stable or coach house for a farm.
Woltzeten was part of the Emden district during the Hanoverian period in East Friesia (1824), part of the Larrelt bailiwick and then part of the Loquard subordinate bailiff, which in addition to Loquard and Woltzeten also included Rysum, Campen, Heiselhusen and Canum.
For centuries, the natural depths and drainage channels that crisscross the Krummhörn in a dense network were the most important modes of transport. Not only the villages but also many farms were connected to the city of Emden and the port of Greetsiel via ditches and canals. The boat traffic with Emden was particularly important. Village boatmen took over the supply of goods from the city and delivered agricultural products in the opposite direction: “From the Sielhafenort, smaller ships, so-called Loogschiffe, transported the cargo to the inland and supplied the marsh villages (loog = village). The Loogschiffe from the Krummhörn enlivened the canals of the city of Emden into the 20th century. ”As early as 1824, the cultural historian Fridrich Arends wrote in his description of the land of the Principality of East Friesland and the Harlingerland :“ There is no office more abundant than this with water. (…) In winter and spring, the grain and other goods are always transported by water both in this and in the Greetmer office, which is extremely useful in the case of the poor dirt roads in the season. "
Peat, which was mostly extracted in the East Frisian Fehnen , played an important role as heating material for the inhabitants of the Krummhörn for centuries . The peat ships brought the material along the East Frisian canal network to the Krummhörn villages, including Woltzeten. On their way back into the Fehnsiedlungen the Torfschiffer often took clay soil from the march and the manure of cattle with which they their home were dug fertilized land.
In April 1919 there were so-called "bacon removals" from Emden workers, which were followed by rioting on the farm workers. Together with the Rheiderland , the district of Emden was the part of East Frisia most affected by this unrest. Workers broke into the surrounding villages in closed trains and stole food from farmers in clashes. The situation only calmed down after the deployment of the Reichswehr troops stationed in the region . As a reaction to this, resident groups were formed in almost all villages in the Emden area . The Woltzeten Rescue Service comprised 30 people. These had 15 weapons. The resident services were only dissolved after a corresponding decree by the Prussian Interior Minister Carl Severing on April 10, 1920.
On July 1, 1972, Woltzeten was incorporated into the new municipality of Krummhörn.
Culture and sights
Economy and Infrastructure
Companies
The farms in the surrounding area also belong to Woltzeten. These agricultural areas and farms are named Juitswarf, Woltzetener Vorwerk, Blauhaus and Spiegelhaus.
There have been no shopping opportunities in Woltzeten since the 1970s. Doctors or restaurants are also in vain.
Public facilities
The Woltzeten volunteer fire brigade was officially founded on September 1, 1933 and has been providing fire protection and general assistance ever since . In 2006 some of the Krummhörn volunteer fire brigades were merged. The Woltzeten fire brigade joined forces with the Pewsum fire brigade. Together they formed the Pewsum - Woltzeten volunteer fire brigade, which provides fire protection and general help. The number of members rose to over 50 over the years.
In 2013, both fire brigades became the first Krummhörn fire brigade to move to a common location in the Pewsum industrial park. The new fire station for this was built as a rental property. This is the first rented fire station in the history of the Krummhörner fire brigades.
Today, the fleet includes a tank fire engine (TLF 16/25), an emergency fire fighting group vehicle (HLF 20), an equipment vehicle logistics system (GW-L1) and a command vehicle 1 (ELW 1).
On average, the Pewsum - Woltzeten volunteer fire brigade goes to over 20 missions a year in the entire municipality of Krummhörn and also runs a youth fire brigade . This is one of a total of seven youth fire brigades in Krummhörn
traffic
Woltzeten is connected to the Krummhorn main town of Pewsum via a county road. The villages of Woquard , Groothusen , Hamswehrum and Campen as well as the Twixlum district of Emden can be reached via agricultural roads (partly asphalted, partly with concrete pavement ).
The short Woltzetener Tief flows into the Pewsumer Tief after a few hundred meters east of the village. Via this there is a water connection to the north into the main town, in the south the Pewsumer Tief flows to the Knockster Tief , so that Woltzeten is connected to the East Frisian canal network.
literature
- Pewsum volunteer fire brigade: Festival magazine for the 125th anniversary . Pewsum 2008
- Woltzeten volunteer fire brigade: Festival magazine for the 17th Krummhörn municipal fire brigade day . Woltzeten 1991
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Curt Heinrich Conrad Friedrich Jansen: Statistical Handbook of the Kingdom of Hanover 1824 . In Commission of the Helwings̓chen Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover, p. 166, archive.org .
- ^ Harm Wiemann / Johannes Engelmann: Old streets and ways in East Frisia . Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 169 (East Frisia in the protection of the dyke; 8)
- ↑ Fridrich Arends: Earth description of the principality of East Friesland and the Harlingerland . Emden 1824, p. 279 ff., Textarchiv - Internet Archive .
- ^ Gunther Hummerich: The peat shipping of the Fehntjer in Emden and the Krummhörn in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies in Ostfriesland , Volume 88/89 (2008/2009), pp. 142–173, here p. 163.
- Jump up ↑ Hans Bernhard Eden: The Resident Services of Ostfriesland from 1919 to 1921. In: Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies Ostfriesland , Volume 65 (1985), pp. 81-134, here pp. 94, 98, 105, 114.
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 263 f .
