Marienhafe
Marienhafe is a municipality and administrative headquarters in the Samtgemeinde Brookmerland in the district of Aurich in East Friesland. Marienhafe is one of the smallest municipalities in Lower Saxony.
To the municipality of the district of Tjüche heard north of the town center.
- 3.1 City Council and Mayor
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 3.3 partnerships
- 4.1 Regular events
- 4.2 Sport
- 5.1 Economics
- 5.2 traffic
- 5.3 Formation
Geography
Marienhafe located in the western part of the East Frisian peninsula, about 20 kilometers north-east of Emden and 10 kilometers south-east of the north. It is bordered on the northwest by the municipality Osteel, in the north- east on the community Leezdorf, in the east on the community Rechtsupweg, in the south on the community Upgant -Schott, in the southwest on the community Wirdum. Near Marienhafe springs the Abelitz, which opens in the Old Greetsieler Sieltief and connects the city with the East Frisian waterways network.
History
The village was founded in 1424 due to a Marienhafe Bremer arbitral award as Marie Hoff. The church is situated therein, but since the 13th century. She was originally known for the almost 80 -meter high box-shaped tower and its three naves. The mudflats " Ley Bay " and " Kuiper Sand" (before Marienhafe in the Ems estuary or in their transition to the North Sea located ) derive their name from the ancient three-aisled Marie oats United Church. Its tower and all three naves were on the north side with copper ( " Kuiper " = Frisian- Dutch for copper) and on the south side with slate ( " Ley " = altdeutsch for Slate ) covered, so that the Church from the sea by the changing views on the copper and slate page for insiders gave an indication of the remaining passable at low water tidal creeks and other areas of water. Without this special knowledge of the city and its port were tideabhängiger impregnable from the sea.
The importance of the church as a navigation mark went to the end of the Middle Ages back by shifting the shoreline. Marienhafe now lies inland and has no harbor. Both the tower and the vessels of the church were therefore drastically reduced in view of the high cost of maintaining the building in 1829. The Church of St. Jacobi ( Hamburg) ( without their today pointed spire ) conveys an impression about the original size of tower and nave of St. Mary oats church.
The Corsair Störtebeker here is also found in the late 14th century shelter. But he returned the favor in the battle of the chiefs of the Brookmerlandes for supremacy in East Frisia.
Incorporations
On 1 July 1972, the community was incorporated Tjüche.
Religions
Church
The St. Mary's Church was originally a three-aisled basilica with a transept and six-storey tower. It was once the largest church in East Friesland. 1829 the building was demolished down to the nave, with a 250 meters long and 124 frames from existing sandstone frieze, which was located directly under the roof, was destroyed. The reduced now on four floors tower was once an important navigation point. Yet almost completely preserved is the major organ that Gerhard von Holy 1713 completed.
Church History
Originally belonged to the old Brookmerland a Rectory Hinte in the Diocese of Münster. 1250 was an atonement contract the Brokmerland separated from the diocese of Münster and placed under the bishop's official forecasting. Involved were the parishes Blaukirchen ( Südwold ), Burhafe (around 1500 belonging to the monastery Ihlow ) Engerhafe, Floritz, Marienhafe and Wiegboldsbur. Later, other congregations followed them.
Policy
City Council and Mayor
The Council of the Municipality Council Marienhafe consists of 13 women and councilors. This is the set number for the member community of integrated municipality with a population of 2,001 to 3,000 inhabitants. The 13 council members are elected through local elections for five years. The current term of office began on 1 November 2011.
The last local elections on September 11, 2011 gave the following result:
The turnout in the local elections of 2011 was 49.80 % below the Lower Saxony average of 52.5 %. For comparison - in the previous local elections on 10 September 2006, the turnout was 57.17 %.
Mayor Beate Kappher Greeting of the SPD.
Coat of arms
" Shared by red and gold; above a growing golden eagle with golden crowns on their heads and the two swing tips; below a red anchor between two fallen red cups. "
Partnerships
Marienhafe maintains a partnership with the British Melksham, a small trading town ( 23,000 inhabitants), on the banks of the Avon in the west of Wiltshire. The partnership is primarily maintained by private individuals.
Culture and sights
In the marketplace south of the church stands a monument commemorating the pirate Klaus Störtebeker. The bronze sculpture was designed by the sculptor Karl- Ludwig Leeraner Böke after Störtebeker Etching by Daniel Hopfer and inaugurated on 27 June 1992. Around the church is the local cemetery. Marienhafe mainly consists of a gated community and in the center, there are smaller shops and restaurants. Due to the dense development Marienhafe is melted together with the neighboring villages Osteel and Upgant -Schott, which also belong to Samtgemeinde Brookmerland.
Since July 4, 1999 Marienhafe is represented by the word " city with the longest tea table in the world" in the Guinness Book of World Records. More than 3,000 people gathered on the day in the village to take part in the longest 620 meters of the world tea table space and to consummate the East Frisian tea ceremony. The nearby town of Norden later tried to break the record, but failed in this endeavor. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the cup record the Marie oats provide a further Guinness World Record, in which 1,878 people dressed as pirates. Thus, the previous world record by pirates Heide Park Soltau was exceeded with 1,140 pirates.
Regular events
Every three years, in summer, the so-called Störtebeker open-air theater in the Low German language take place in Marienhafe for three and a half weeks. Here, the marketplace for several weeks will be transformed medieval. The games are conducted eV from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostfriesisches popular theater. The substantive actions change with each new game year.
Another highlight in the community life is the annual Störtebekerstraße hard. This takes place on the first Saturday of June each year. On the shopping street and around the marketplace numerous local clubs home-made goods and games offer. In the evening there is a music program with several live bands.
Sports
Nationally known are the Kempa Brookmerland Championships. The Handball tournament is organized since 1986 by the handball section of TuRa Marienhafe 46 eV at year-end in the Kurt Knippelmeyer Hall. The tournament not only club teams, but also recreational teams can participate. In the 24th edition of the tournament in 2009, was recorded with 101 teams and 1182 players the highest ever participation. The final of the tournament is a tent hard before Kurt- Knippelmeyer Hall.
Economy and infrastructure
Economy
As the center of Samtgemeinde Brookmerland Marienhafe has in the center with all the facilities that satisfy the daily needs. In addition, there are some shops and facilities of the hotel and catering industry.
Traffic
The municipality is situated on the main road 72 between the old county town north and Georgsheil; also on the regional road 26 of Osterupgant ( on the east by Marienhafe ) to Wirdum. There is also in Marienhafe a station on the railway line between Emden and north dike Mole. Since 15 December 2013 Marienhafe that was previously only served as the only station between Oldenburg and North dike from transport, a long-distance support.
Education
In Marienhafe the school center Brookmerland is a Hauptschule, Realschule and a special school. Since the school year 2009/2010, there next to the expiring in Marienhafe types of schools described above, a comprehensive school from grade five.
Personalities
- Schomerus Wilhelm (1864-1943), Lutheran theologian, General Superintendent of Aurich
- Hilko Wiardo Schomerus (* 1879 in Marienhafe, † 1945 in Halle / Saale), Protestant theologian, missionary and religious scholar, Indologist
- Georg Peters ( b. 1908 in Marienhafe, † 1992 in the north), politicians