Neermoor is a village in the region of

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, in

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. Administratively, it is an ''

Ortsteil A village is a human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located ...

'' of the municipality of

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. Located to the west of the river

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, Neermoor is approximately 8 kilometers to the north of Leer. It has a population of 4,748.

History

Neermoor is a subsidiary settlement of ''Edana'' and was probably founded further east on the edge of the moor before its demise in the 11th century. The oldest documented mention dates back to the year 1400. In one document Neermoor is listed as ''Edenramora''. Later name variants were ''Nymramore'' (1409), ''Eramoere'' (1428), ''Edramora'' (1436), ''Eddermore'' (1439), ''Neydermoer'' (1481), ''Neddermoer'' (1494) and ''Neermohr'' (1577). The place name is probably derived from the desolate parent settlement of ''Edana''. During the

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there were two castles owned by the

East Frisian chieftains The East Frisian chieftains (, Low German: ''hovetlinge / hovedlinge'') assumed positions of power in East Frisia during the course of the 14th century, after the force of the old, egalitarian constitution from the time of Frisian Freedom had ma ...

Focko Ukena Focko Ukena (1360 or 1370 – 1435) was an East Frisian chieftain (''hovetling'') who played an important part in the struggle between the Vetkopers and Schieringers in the provinces of Groningen and Friesland. Aside from this he was one o ...

and his son Uko Fockena in Neermoor. A castle stood on today's Vossbergweg at the corner of the Burgstrasse. The second stood between today's Osterstrasse and Süderstrasse. In 1422, a small church was built away from the village center on a hill near the old cemetery, which was replaced by the

Reformed Church Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Christian, Presbyterian, ...

from 1797. The Old Reformed Church dates from 1865.

Gallery

File:ChurchNeermoorOldRef.jpg, Old Reformed Church File:Mühle Neermoor Juli 2022.jpg, Historic windmill File:Neermoor, Reformierte Kirche (03).jpg, Interior of the Reformed Church

Notable people

(1360/1370–1435), East Frisian chieftain

References

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