Photo by Gisela Schmidt
 | | ID: 0154 | 13 JUN 2005 |
West-Großefehn
Gliding down the canal from Timmel to West-Großefehn, we listened to a local resident play and sing Ostfriesen folk songs. This part of the canal was a conservation effort—the moor draining had stopped and the meadows mowed once a year or not at all. Inquisitive water buffalo along the shore watched as we passed. Since cows preferred a drier ground, water buffalo were allowed to roam freely throughout the area.
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Photo by Mike Balster
| | ID: 0061 | 13 JUN 2005 |
Wiesmoor
This is the exterior of the Blumenhalle. It is a beautiful restaurant located near Wiesmoor. Inside, you will not only find a restaurant, which served us a wonderful lunch on Monday, but also a nursery, which sells all kinds of plants and flowers. There is also a fountain, which puts out a water display in coordination with music.
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Photo by Mike Balster
| | ID: 0062 | 13 JUN 2005 |
Wiesmoor
Wiesmoor Peat and Settlement Museum. This is one of the buildings at the museum. Inside this building we were shown how the people who had worked the peat bogs lived. It was a very difficult existence, living in very cramped quarters and not having a lot of food to eat.
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Photo by Mike Balster
| | ID: 0063 | 13 JUN 2005 |
Wiesmoor
Wiesmoor Peat and Settlement Museum. This is another of the buildings at the museum. |
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Photo by Gisela Schmidt
| | ID: 0153 | 13 JUN 2005 |
Wiesmoor
The “Torf und Siedlungs Museum” (Peat and Settlement Museum) was established in 1988 with the efforts of Harm Eilers and Wiesmoor residents. Located near the Blumenhalle in Wiesmoor, the museum’s dedication to the preservation of the colonisation of the moor can be seen in the presentation of colonists’ houses, buildings, and artefacts; in particular, the old village school. |
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Photo by Cheryl Meints
| | ID: 0045 | 13 JUN 2005 |
Wiesmoor, Blumenhalle
It was difficult to stay with the group as we entered the Blumenhalle in Wiesmoor. Seated in the Blumenhallen Café, my eyes frequently peered through the glass to the large mass of red, orange, and yellow hues in the adjoining photographer’s paradise. Eating very little of the lunch provided, I disappeared among the alluring flower beds—ten thousand blooming treasures beneath one roof. |
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Photo by Cheryl Meints
| | ID: 0046 | 13 JUN 2005 |
Wiesmoor, Blumenhalle
The Blumenhalle—Flower Hall—on Dahlia Road in Wiesmoor opened from March through October and featured the only dancing water fountain in Ostfriesland. My husband, Don, and our table partners chatted and shared funny stories while I swatted, leaned, and zoomed in for the perfect photo of those blooming delicacies—this was an hour of mission impossible. |
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Photo by Cheryl Meints
| | ID: 0050 | 13 JUN 2005 |
Wiesmoor, Ottermeer Lake
A local resident demonstrated the endless cycle of peat harvesting near the one-hundred year old Ottermeer Lake near Wiesmoor. The process involved four steps—cutting, loading, hauling, and stacking. It was usually accomplished by two swift and proficient couples from April through August. |
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Photo by Linda Bayliss
| | ID: 0038 | 12 JUN 2005 |
Wolthusen
This picture is of the Wolthusen church. My Gt-Gt-Grandpa Harm Eekhoff was from Wolthusen. Wolthusen is a town that has grown to about 4,000 people, and it has become something like a suburb of Emden. There are 4 warfs, with this church being at the center of the oldest warf. A warf is a "mound of mud" that was built up so that the church and town were high enough to be protected from the floods. |
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Photo by Linda Bayliss
| | ID: 0039 | 12 JUN 2005 |
Wolthusen
This is a street in Wolthusen. |
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