Wiesmoor
Wiesmoor () is a town in the district of Aurich in the northwest of Lower Saxony. It lies on the Nordgeorgsfehnkanal and is the youngest town in the East Frisia area having been bestowed town rights on 16 March 2006, two days later on 18 March 2006, Wiesmoor celebrated the Centenary of the settlement's founding. The town owes its growth to the industrialisation of the harvesting of peat from the surrounding moors. Wiesmoor holds an annual flower festival and the town is also known as the ‘Flower City’, the name originates from the large numbers of flowers which are grown in the town’s industri
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.name
- Wiesmoor
- German location.image_flag
- Flagge Wiesmoor.svg
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Wiesmoor COA.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Ortseingang Wiesmoor msu.jpg
- German location.image_plan
- Wiesmoor in AUR.svg
- German location.state
- Lower Saxony
- German location.district
- Aurich
- German location.elevation
- 11
- German location.area
- 82.94
- German location.postal_code
- 26639
- German location.area_code
- 04944
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- 1989 mid-air collision
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Wiesmoor () is a town in the district of Aurich in the northwest of Lower Saxony. It lies on the Nordgeorgsfehnkanal and is the youngest town in the East Frisia area having been bestowed town rights on 16 March 2006, two days later on 18 March 2006, Wiesmoor celebrated the Centenary of the settlement's founding. The town owes its growth to the industrialisation of the harvesting of peat from the surrounding moors. Wiesmoor holds an annual flower festival and the town is also known as the ‘Flower City’, the name originates from the large numbers of flowers which are grown in the town’s industrial greenhouse. Formerly the greenhouses were heated by waste heat from the now defunct peat burning power station which was located in the city. Wiesmoor also has the official title of a Luftkurort; tourism now plays an important role in the local economy.
==Geography== Wiesmoor lies around 30 km inland from the North Sea in the north-western Germany in the centre of the historic district of East Frisia. The city of Wiesmoor and its surroundings have a population of between 35,000 and 40,000 people.