Edewecht (

Low German : : : : : (70,000) (30,000) (8,000) , familycolor = Indo-European , fam2 = Germanic , fam3 = West Germanic , fam4 = North Sea Germanic , ancestor = Old Saxon , ancestor2 = Middle ...

: ''Erwech'') is a municipality in the Ammerland district, in

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. It is situated approximately west of Oldenburg.

Villages in the municipality and their population

*Friedrichsfehn Nord 1,747 *Friedrichsfehn Süd 3,185 *Husbäke 1,005 (known for the

bog bodies A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between and the Second World War. Fischer ...

found there; see: List of bog bodies) *Jeddeloh I 1,101 *Jeddeloh II 1,333 *Kleefeld 439 *Klein Scharrel 1,229 *Nord Edewecht I 2,246 *Nord Edewecht II 2,548 *Osterscheps 1,604 *Portsloge 1,962 *Süddorf 608 *Süd Edewecht 2,256 *Westerscheps 554 *Wildenloh 805 *Wittenberge 386 total: 23,008 *Edewecht only 7,050 *Friedrichsfehn only 4,932 Source: website of the Edewecht Municipality. Date: June 30, 2020. The population figures include people, who have a second home in Edewecht besides to a dwelling elsewhere, and legally residing foreigners.

History

Edewecht was the scene of severe fights during the last weeks of the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

. Coming from Friesoythe in the south, on April 17, 1945, Canadian troops had to conquer Edewecht in fierce house-by-house fighting against fanatic German paratroopers and other soldiers. The famous German artist

Joseph Beuys Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( , ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and anthroposophy. He was a founder of a provocative art mov ...

, who was a young man in these days, was one of the

Wehrmacht The ''Wehrmacht'' (, ) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the ''Heer'' (army), the ''Kriegsmarine'' (navy) and the ''Luftwaffe'' (air force). The designation "''Wehrmacht''" replaced the previou ...

paratroopers A paratrooper is a military parachutist—someone trained to parachuting, parachute into a military operation, and usually functioning as part of an airborne forces, airborne force. Military parachutists (troops) and parachutes were first used ...

defending Edewecht, and got injured on April, 27 during battle. This battle was the fifth time that Edewecht was destroyed in a war. The first four times were in the 15th and 16th centuries. Edewecht had been a border watch location between Eastern Frisia and the County of Oldenburg for many centuries.

Twin towns

Edewecht is

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with *

Krosno Krosno (in full ''The Royal Free City of Krosno'', pl, Królewskie Wolne Miasto Krosno) is a historical town and county in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in southeastern Poland. The estimated population of the town is 47,140 inhabitants as of 2 ...

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''(since 1996)'' ' * Wappen Wusterhausen

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Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 square ...

Germany

Sons and daughters

* Hein ten Hoff (1919-2003), German boxer

References

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