Suurhusen

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Suurhusen is a place in East Frisia and today a district of the municipality of Hinte in the district of Aurich with about 1100 inhabitants.

Location, Location and Geology

Place is located about five kilometers north of the city center of Emden and about two kilometers east of the town center of Hinte. West of the Emsland Railway runs from the north / north dike, to that previously housed a breakpoint. Since the construction of the bypass road motor vehicle traffic on the B 210 (formerly in this part of Section B 70) direction Aurich / north bypass the eastern outskirts of the village. The Knock Tief, a drainage run to the North Sea is also tangent to the place.

Overall, the district covers an area of ​​nine square kilometers. The soils consist of bending and clothing march, which rise to heights of up to Suurhusen four meters above sea level ( asl). Suurhusen was originally a scattered village, but has evolved through the designation of new building areas increasingly becoming a scattered settlement.

History

Suurhusen was formerly called Zuiderhusen ( Southshore Husen ), probably in contrast to the nearby locations Osterhusen and Westerhusen. As this is the place probably an expansion of settlement Hinte. For the first time the village was mentioned as de Sutherhusem documented in the year 1255. Later spellings were tu Suderhusum ( 1439), Suhrhußen ( 1579) and Suhr Hausen ( 1645). Since 1825, the name Suurhusen is common. The place name is Old Frisian origin and refers to the southern houses.

One that found in the old church steeple stone bearing the date 1004, and pottery finds suggest that the village is much older.

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 Suurhusen. 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 Suurhusens comprised 51 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.

The formerly independent municipality since the local government reform from 1 July 1972, a part of the newly established municipality of Hinte unit.

Attractions

The Church in Suurhusen reminiscent of the old fortress churches of earlier times. It was built in the first half of the 13th century. Originally the church was 32 ​​meters long and 9.35 meters wide. 1450 the nave was shortened by a quarter and placed on the tower. This 27.37 meter high tower is known as the Leaning Tower of Suurhusen: With a slope of 5.1939 °, it is considered wrong -art tower in the world, surpassing the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa, which has a slope of 5.08 °. It is built on oak trunks that are rotted after a lowering of ground water because it got air to the wood.

The church can be visited.

In the village center, the country is working museum where the life of a working class family is illustrated in earlier times.

People

• Gerhard Dietrich, philologist, historian and genealogist