Roggenstede (

East Frisian Low Saxon East Frisian Low Saxon, East Frisian Low German or simply called East Frisian is a Northern Low Saxon dialect spoken in the East Frisian peninsula of northwestern Lower Saxony. East Frisian Low Saxon remains in everyday use among segments of t ...

: ''Roggstee'') is an

East Frisia East Frisia () or East Friesland (; ; ; ) is a historic region in the northwest of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is primarily located on the western half of the East Frisia (peninsula), East Frisian peninsula, to the east of West Frisia and to the ...

n village in

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 ...

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. 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

Dornum Dornum is a village and a municipality in the East Frisian district of Aurich, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located near the North Sea coast, approx. 15 km east of Norden, and 20 km north of Aurich. Division of the municipality The ...

, 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 ...

. Roggenstede is located about 2 kilometers southeast of Dornum.

Geography

The place is bounded by the Dornumersieler Tief in the north/northeast, the Schleitief in the southeast, the Otjetief in the South, the Alte Tief in the West and covers an area of about 5.7 square kilometers. The distance to the

Wadden Sea The Wadden Sea ( ; ; or ; ; ; ) is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea. It lies between the coast of northwestern continental Europe and the range of low-lying Frisian Islands, forming a shallow body of water with tida ...

is about 5.5 kilometers. Neighbouring places are Fulkum,

Utarp Utarp is a municipality in the district of Wittmund, in Lower Saxony, 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 t ...

, and

Westerbur Westerbur is an East Frisian village in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is an ''Ortsteil'' of the municipality of Dornum, in the district of Aurich. Administratively, the settlement of Middelsbur, located slightly to the northeast, belongs to Westerbur. ...

Etymology

Roggenstede was first listed in 1420 in the Stader Copiar as ''Reckenstede'' among the parishes required to pay taxes to the

Bremen Cathedral Bremen Cathedral (), named after St. Peter, is a church situated in the market square in the center of Bremen. The cathedral belongs to the Bremian Evangelical Church, a member of the umbrella organization Evangelical Church in Germany. It ...

. Later names were ''Roggenstädt'' or ''Roggenstedt'' ( 1650) and then from about 1750 ''Roggenstede''. An older interpretation of the place name as "place where rye grows" is not credible. More likely is the interpretation of the name as "place" of Rocke or Recko.

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