Schwerinsdorf is a

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in the district of Leer, in

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. The municipality has 705 inhabitants and covers an area of 5.57 square kilometers.

Geography

Location

The community is located between

Hesel Hesel is a municipality in Leer district. It is situated approximately northeast of Leer, and east of Emden. Hesel is also the seat of the ''Samtgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Hesel Hesel is a municipality in Leer district. It is sit ...

and Remels on the former federal highway 75 (now Landesstraße 24). Administratively Schwerinsdorf belongs to the integrated municipality Hesel in the north of the district Leer. Neighboring communities are Firrel in the north and Hesel in the west (both also belonging to the joint municipality Hesel) and Uplengen in the east.

History

From the founding of 1802 until the end of the empire in 1918

Starting point of today's community Schwerinsdorf was submitted on 15 June 1799 request of a tenant of the Dominion Gutshof Monastery Barthe in the Prussian War and Domain Chamber

Aurich Aurich (; East Frisian Low Saxon: ''Auerk'', West Frisian: ''Auwerk'', stq, Aurk) is a town in the East Frisian region of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Aurich and is the second largest City in East Frisia, both i ...

to lease his son a piece of bog on today's municipal area, on which he could settle. However, the first settlers built up until 1802 their modest cottage on the moor, as previously still limit stipulations with the neighboring towns Selverde, Hasselt and small Oldendorf and with the Dominialgut needed to be clarified. The new colony was named after Friedrich Carl Heinrich von Schwerin(1768-1805), President of the War and Domain Chamber in Aurich from 1798 to 1803 and 1804/05. He killed himself in Aurich in 1805. Under him, the temporarily suspended peat colonization in East

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had been resumed. Until then, the colony had been called "at the monastery of Barthe". After 1815, the Kingdom of Prussia Ostfriesland ceded to the

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. Within Hanover belonged Schwerinsdorf Office Stickhausen, therein to the official votebook Remels and in turn to the subvogue Hesel. In 1848 Hesel formed an independent bailiwick within the office Stickhausen.

References

Towns and villages in East Frisia Leer (district) {{Leer-geo-stub