Esens, Lower Saxony
Town in Lower Saxony, Germany
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Location of Esens within Wittmund district
53°38′49″N 7°36′46″E / 53.64694°N 7.61278°E / 53.64694; 7.61278
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Esens is a municipality in the district of Wittmund, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated near the North Sea coast, approx. 14 km northwest of Wittmund, and 20 km northeast of Aurich.
- Esens townhall in wintertime
- Aerial view of Esens harbour Bensersiel
Esens is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Esens.
Sons and daughters of the city
- Eilert Dieken (1898-1960), German Nazi policeman and gendarme who murdered the Ulma family in Markowa (Poland) in 1944
- David Fabricius (1564-1617), theologian, major amateur astronomer and cartographer
- Johann Hülsemann (1602-1661), Lutheran theologian
- Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714), composer
- Christian Everhard, Prince of East Frisia (1665-1708), Prince of East Friesland from the House of Cirksena
- Enno Rudolph Brenneysen, (1669-1734), jurist and chancellor of East Friesland
- Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725-1776), theologian, zoologist and professor in Erlangen
- Theodore Thomas (conductor) (1835-1905), composer, founder of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Gerhard Tappen (1866-1953), General of the Artillery
- Timo Schultz (born 1977), German footballer
References
- ^ "Meeting in Esens | bewellatschool.sp16przemysl.pl.pl".
- ^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
External links
- Media related to Esens at Wikimedia Commons
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