Jheringsfehn

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Moormerland in the district of Leer

Jheringsfehn (often misspelled Iheringsfehn ) is a Fehnsiedlung in the community Moormerland in the district of Leer in East Frisia. The town has about 2,500 inhabitants. Mayor is Arnold Eyhusen (SPD).

Geographical position and natural space

Jheringsfehn is a series of village that stretches along the Jheringsfehnkanals and its northwest-southeast -running side arms ( Georgswieke, Rudolfswieke, Old and New Bekswieke Bekswieke ) at heights from 2.4 to 3.5 meters. The village is located about two kilometers east of Warsingsfehn and about four kilometers west-northwest of Hesel on an area of 10.33 square kilometers.

History

The first settler was Paul Harsebroek, a dike Commissioner of Emden. He earned a 1641 about 25 acres of bog land, the so-called Bullenmeede for 100 rix-dollars. The area was then on ( the corner) called de Hook, as it is in a corner between Boekzetelerfehn and Neuefehn. On October 16, 1660 Harsebroek concluded with the state government an annual lease agreement for a further 100 Diemate morass. Revenue from the peat remained low, so Harsebroek fell into increasing financial difficulties, the ground lease could not pay, and finally in 1741 was bankrupt. In the subsequent bankruptcy proceedings acquired Rebecca Ritzius Dam, born Warsing, the lands of the Harsebroek heirs. Ritzius transferred the land in 1742, her son, the government and Kammerrat Sebastian Eberhard Jhering. Jhering knew the ground that he had surveyed in 1739. He enlarged the property by another 100 acres, which were but has not been taken in his death 1759 in attack. The name first appears Jheringsfehn 1772, when Rudolf Philipp Jhering took another 300 Diamate leasehold.

Until the incorporation on January 1, 1973, the town belonged to the district of Aurich ( Ostfriesland).

Population Development

The population increased after the Second World War by the inclusion of displaced persons from the former eastern territories of the German Reich sharply. In 1946 they made 224 of a total of 1966 inhabitants, which corresponds to a share of 11.4 percent. This ratio remained stable in the following years.

Culture and sights

Jheringsfehn is a typical Fehnort whose townscape is dominated by the classical channels. Are the local sports club and the Lutheran church, which also includes the neighboring village Boekzetelerfehn For the village life of meaning. The John's Church was consecrated in 1864 and is centered on the border between the two towns. Another attraction is the historic cemetery at the Hookswieke with its old grave stones.

Jheringsfehner Church

The historic cemetery at the Hookswieke

Personalities

• Sebastian Eberhard Jhering, (1700-1759), namesake of the village.
• Caspar Rudolph Jhering, lawyer (1740-1809), founded in 1779 with like-minded people, the " mill fire Societät in East Friesland ", which existed until 1952.
• Luisa Hartema ( born December 26, 1994), won 7 June 2012 the title of Germany's next top model Heidi Klum in the finals of the same name talent show.