Menstede-Coldinne is a district (''

Ortsteile A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village ...

'') of the municipality of

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

, in the district of

Aurich Aurich (; East Frisian Low Saxon: ''Auerk'', West Frisian: ''Auwerk'', ) 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 in popula ...

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. It mainly consists of the two villages Menstede and Coldinne. Other settlements in the district include Klosterdorf, Kölke, Breitefeld, Blinkheide, Coldinnergaste, Strück, and Westerbrande, together comprising an area of 12.45 km². The district is part of the municipality of Großheide since the 1972 Lower Saxony municipal reform, before that, it formed its own municipality.

Etymology

The place's name goes back to the Coldinne monastery. There are various theories about the interpretation of the name. It could either be a derivation from the name of the monastery ''ter waeren minne'' or it could be a Frisian-

Low German Low German is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language variety, language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide. "Low" ...

field name that could be translated either as "cold meadow", "uninhabited house" or "uninhabited inn". Menstede, on the other hand, is a combination of the first name ''Meene'' with ''Stelle'' ("place"), but could also mean "place of the Maane" ("community").

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{{Authority control Großheide Villages in Lower Saxony Towns and villages in East Frisia