Freepsum

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Map of Krummhoern

Freepsum is a village in the municipality Krummhoern in the district of Aurich in East Friesland. The village with 381 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2012) is located approximately ten miles northwest of the port city of Emden. The pile settlement was formerly an independent municipality. Today, the village is one of the 19 districts of Krummhoern how the church is called colloquially.

Location and Area

Freepsum is located about three kilometers southeast of Pewsum, the main town of the municipality. Overall, the district covers an area of 7.34 square kilometers. The Warftendorf was a kink in marshland at a height of 5 m above sea level. NHN. Eastern borders an area with clothing march to the scattered village. Immediately to the southeast of the village is the Freepsumer sea, a now dry defined, a former lake. The deepest point of the resulting depression was 2.5 m below mean sea level for a long time as the lowest spot in Germany, but has since been replaced by Neuendorf - Sachsenbande officially measured 3.5 m below mean sea level.

History

Freepsum counted in the Hanoverian period Ostfrieslands to the Official Emden ( 1824), in the Bailiwick Larrelt and in turn to lower bailiwick Larrelt, who also Wybelsum, Twixlum, Logumer Vorwerk, United Midlum and Westerhusen belonged next to the main town and Freepsum.

For centuries, the natural lows and the drainage canals that crisscross the Krummhoern in a dense network, the most important mode of transport. About ditches and canals not only the villages but also many farmsteads with the city of Emden and the harbor Greetsiel were connected. Especially the boat traffic with Emden was important. Village boatmen took over the supply of places with goods from the city and delivered in the opposite direction of agricultural products: "From Sielhafenort smaller vessels, called Loogschiffe, the folded cargo transported inland and supplied the march villages ( loog = village). Until the 20th century the Loogschiffe from the bustling Krummhoern the canals of the city Emden "Already in 1824 wrote the historian Fridrich Arends in his geography of the principality of East Friesland and the Harlingerland ". Using water no office is abundantly provided as this one. (...) In winter and spring, the transport of grain and other goods is done both in this than in Greetmer office always to water, which has extraordinary benefits for the poor clay trails in the season. "

Peat, which was mostly recovered in the East Frisian Fehnen, played for centuries an important role as a fuel for the inhabitants of the Krummhoern. The Torfschiffe brought the material on the East Frisian channel network to the villages of Krummhoern, including by Freepsum. On their way back into the Fehnsiedlungen the Torfschiffer took often with clay soil from the march and the dung of cattle, with which they fertilize their land were dug up at home.

In April 1919, there were so-called "Bacon parades " Emden workers to the country joined labor unrest. Together with the Rheiderland the county Emden was the most affected by these riots part of East Friesland. Workers broke into full train to the surrounding villages and stole food from farmers, where there were clashes. The situation calmed down only after the deployment of troops stationed in the region of the Reichswehr. In response, were formed in almost every town in the Emden area Einwohnerwehren. The Einwohnerwehr Loquards involved 50 people. These possessed 20 weapons. The Home Guards were released only after the adoption of the Prussian Minister of the Interior Carl Severing on 10 April 1920.

On July 1, 1972 Freepsum was incorporated into the new municipality Krummhoern.

Development of the place name

Freepsum first mentioned in the 10th century as well as Fresbrahtteshem 1255 was called Frebestum. Today's toponym is common since 1355. He is a composite of Rufnamens Fresbraht with -um ( = home ). The term Fresbraht turn contains in addition to the tribal name of the Frisians braht the altniederdeutsche adjective that means shiny ( cf. English bright).

Attractions

The Freepsumer church was built by the inhabitants around the middle of the 13th century on the highest point of the mound.