Marcardsmoor is a village and district (Stadtteil) of the East Frisian town of Wiesmoor, in Lower Saxony. It is located north of the town, on the intersection of the and the Nordgeorgsfehn Canal.
Marcardsmoor is a village and district (Stadtteil) of the East Frisian town of Wiesmoor, in Lower Saxony. It is located north of the town, on the intersection of the and the Nordgeorgsfehn Canal.
==History== The village was the first to be established in the late 19th century according to the so-called "Deutschen Hochmoorkultur". This envisaged that agricultural use should be made possible after the raised bog had been drained with the help of artificial fertilizer. After the Ems-Jade Canal was built between 1880 and 1888, the Prussian Central Moor Commission began cultivating an area of around 2,100 hectares to the north and south of the canal. Until then, Marcardsmoor was only inhabited by a bridge and lock keeper on the canal. Settlers and prisoners took on the reclamation of the moor. They dug drainage ditches into the moor at a right angle to the canal running east–west. Five settlers were counted in 1890, and by 1900 another 29 had followed. In 1906, construction of the Nordgeorgsfehn Canal began from Marcardsmoor, which enabled the settlement of what is now the core area of Wiesmoor.
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