Uphusen Explained

Uphusen
Art:District
City:Emden
Coordinates:53.3768°N 7.2508°W
Lageplan:Emden-Uphusen-Marienwehr.svg
Lageplanbeschreibung:Location of Uphusen-Marienwehr within Emden
Bundesland:Lower Saxony
Pop Metro:817
Vorwahl:04921
Kfz:26725

Uphusen is a village in Lower Saxony, Germany. The East Frisian village is currently a borough (German: Stadtteil) of the city of Emden together with Marienwehr.

Uphusen was originally a village built on a warft. The current warft, with the church on it, was created from three smaller mounds.[1] The current church dates from the fifteenth century. This replaced an earlier church from the thirteenth century that was said to have been demolished and rebuilt in Veenhusen.

The name of the place is a combination of up ('higher') and husen ('houses'), therefore meaning “higher located houses”.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Schwarz, Wolfgang . Archäologische Quellen zur Besiedlung Ostfrieslands im frühen und hohen Mittelalter . Ostfriesland. Geschichte und Gestalt einer Kulturlandschaft . Karl-Ernst . Behre . Hajo . Van Lengen . Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft . Aurich . 1995 . 3925365850 . 75–92 . de.
  2. Book: Remmers, Arend . Von Aaltukerei bis Zwischenmooren – Die Siedlungsnamen zwischen Dollart und Jade . 2004 . Verlag Schuster . Leer . 3796303595 . 224 . de.