Berumerfehn is part of the municipality

Großheide Großheide (East Frisian: Grootheid) is a village and a municipality in the district of Aurich, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km east of Norden, and 15 km northwest of Aurich Aurich (; East Frisian Low Sax ...

in the district of Aurich, in

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

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History

Early years

Berumerfehn was founded in 1794 by the Fehnkompanie of

Norden Norden is a Scandinavian and German word, directly translated as "the North". It may refer to: Places England * Norden, Basingstoke, a ward of Basingstoke and Deane * Norden, Dorset, a hamlet near Corfe Castle * Norden, Greater Manchester, a vi ...

. The Fehnkompanie was a

peat Peat (), also known as turf (), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. The peatland ecosystem covers and is the most efficien ...

digging company of people from Norden and

Hage Hage (East Frisian: Haag) is a small East Frisian town in Lower Saxony, Germany. Located in the Aurich District close to the North Sea, approx. 5 km east of Norden, Hage has a population of 5,893 as of 31 December 2002. Hage is also the seat ...

. By this time the village was named Norderfehn, because it was the only settlement founded inside the peat (Lower German: fehn) by of people from Norden. Later the name of the village changed to Berumerfehn because of the close distance to Berum

20th century

In 1972 Berumerfehn got incorporated into the municipality of Großheide.

21st century

On August 16, 2021 an F2 T5

tornado A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, altho ...

hit Berumerfehn and damaged about 50 houses.

References

{{reflist Aurich (district) Lower Saxony