Tergast is a village in the region of
East Frisia, 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 ...
,
Germany
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. Administratively, it is an ''
Ortsteil
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
'' of the municipality of
Moormerland. Tergast is 1.5 kilometers to the northeast of
Oldersum and has a population of 457.
The first known mention of the village is as ''Gast'' in a deed of gift from the Langen monastery in 1401. Its current name could refer to the fact that the village is built on a high sand ridge, known as a ''
geest
Geest is a type of landform, slightly raised above the surrounding countryside, that occurs on the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark. It is a landscape of sandy and gravelly soils formed as a glacial outwash pla ...
''. The
Church of Tergast was built on the highest point of this ridge somewhere in the second half of the 13th century.
The
Emden municipal waterworks with several reservoirs is located in Tergast.
Notable people
*
Habbo Gerhard Lolling (1848–1894), archaeologist
References
Moormerland
Villages in Lower Saxony
Towns and villages in East Frisia
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