Wiegboldsbur

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Location map of the municipality Südbrookmerland

Aerial view in 2013, left the Wibadi Church with cemetery

The formerly independent city Wiegboldsbur ( Low German: Wiebelsbur ) in Ostfriesland is since the municipal reform, which came into force on 1 July 1972, was a part of the community Südbrookmerland. Wiegboldsbur is a series of houses, situated on the Great Sea about 10 kilometers northwest of the seaport city of Emden. Mayor is Bernhard Behrends (SPD).

Geography and Geology

Wiegboldsbur is located about three kilometers southeast of Georgsheil at heights between 0.2 meters and under 2 meters above mean sea level. The number of village stretches along the county road 113 in the immediate vicinity of the river Wiegboldsburer Riede in the transition region of march, Geest and bog.

Development of the place name

For the first time the village in the 9th century will become known as Uuibodasholta in the abbey register of the monastery. Later it emerged as Wibadeshof ( 1250 ), Wilbaldingaszerspele ( 1300 ), Wiboldeshoff, Wibelsburen ( in the late 15th century), Wiebel Baur ( 1700 ) and Wiegboldsbuhr and Wibelsbur ( in the 18th century). More traditional variants of the name are Wibolduskeriken and Wibbodeshoff. The name of the place name is interpreted as a composition of Rufnames Wi ( g) soon and Bur ( = peasantry ).

History

Wiegboldsbur one of the oldest communities of East Friesland. The occupation of the site probably began in the 7th century to three artificially raised Warfen. A first church built by the inhabitants of the village in the 10th century. Around 1250, construction began on the present church made ​​of brick.

In Brokmerbrief, the written down in the 13th century Code of Brocmanni, the inhabitants of the reclaimed land until the end of the 12th century settlement area west of Aurich, is in the 218ten Küre: " The Brokmänner raise this to the law, that no gedungenes wake within the Wiegboldsburer may be parish under penalty of eight marks and loss of the house. " prohibition " gedungenes entourage " ( mercenaries ) to have evidence that it is the Wiegboldsburer parish concerned a place that was under special protection. One may therefore assume that there was the place of judgment of Brokmerlandes in Wiegboldsbur. Since such sites almost always were in churches, there is a reasonable high degree of probability that was spoken in the immediate vicinity of Canon Law for the residents of Brokmerlandes. To date, there exists in the church wall still a iron collar of the pillory.

In the High Middle Ages, Wiegboldsbur ( = land to the seas and waters ) became the capital of the so-called Oprinerlandes, as the meeting place of the village is mentioned in documents in 1401.

With the rise of the chiefs of the house of tom Brok Wiegboldsbur lost its importance. Capital of Brookmerlandes was then Marienhafe. The Cirksenas that were to succeed the tom Brok, shared their territory for the administration in office. Wiegboldsbur counted from then to the Official Aurich and formed into this with the parishes Engerhafe, Victorbur, Bedekaspel and Forlitz - Blaukirchen the Südbrookmer bailiwick, whose headquarters was Oldeborg.

Attractions

The Wibadi Church was built in 1250 on a terp, an artificial man made hill, to 1.15 meters deep foundations. At the same place before a wooden church had stood, which is burned. The church was built of brick is one of the seven epistles churches, so the oldest churches in the Brokmerlandes. The organ was 1818/1819 built by Wilhelm Schmid Eilert with eight registers and is still preserved almost original. Since 1985 the old bell tower carries two bells again after one was melted down during the First World War. When the church was named and who was Wibadus, is not to be clarified.

Under the motto " Experience nature - to understand nature" provides the NABU School Farm Woldenhof since 2002, school classes and youth groups the opportunity to natural farming on a listed ostfriesischen Gulfhof from 1858 to experience for yourself. Located adjacent to the Woldenhof ( Wolde - from ostfr. Platt WOEL = " Wetlands " ) is the windmill Wiegboldsbur, a three-storey gallery of 1812 Dutchman with compass rose and louvres, which is obtained by an association in volunteer work.