La ciudad de Emden y sus personajes
Por: Geraldina González de la Vega
Estuve en el Mar del Norte, en la ciudad de Emden, parte de la región de Frisia del Este. Ostfriesland, en alemán, es una región en el noroeste del estado de Niedersachsen. Ostfriesland se encuentra en la costa del mar del norte y se compone de las ciudades de Aurich, Leer y Wittmund, and the free city of Emden, in addition Frisian island of Borkum, Lutje Horn, Memmert, Juist, Norderney, Baltrum, Langeoog and Spiekeroog. Ostfriesland is a region very different from the traditional German. They're not feeling in Germany, but somewhere between the Netherlands and maybe at some English port. They speak a dialect that sounds between English, Dutch and German. Stratospheric amounts are taken tea, according to the man who sold us 500 grs of black tea and 500 grams of different teas, they are the number one consumer of tea, followed by the Irish, not English as is commonly believed.
The free city of Emden is located in the Bay of Dollart, if one sailed straight from the coast, would Niederlande or the Netherlands. The city of Emden is very old, its founding dates back to 800. In the XIV and XV had many conflicts with the powerful Hanseatic League states, as Emden Ostfriesland and other cities, as Marienhafe, supported the pirate Klaus Störtebeker. Who incidentally, where the daughter of an important character Marienhafe. Thanks to these conflicts, Emden was occupied by the forces Hanseatic Hamburg until 1447 mainly those Emden finally stopped.
The Störtebecker is a legend in Ostfriesland, the story that once arrested him and his troops, Störtebecker asked the authorities Hamburg once beheaded him, let him run, "clear, head along a line formed by his men and to spare the life of the people he managed to pass before dropping dead. Thus, the Störtebecker, saved all his men, after death, -, or half dead? Long after his death became also a figure of political advertising. The "Left" made him a hero of the medieval class struggle against capitalists Hanseatic states. Those in the "right" made him a sort of Francis Drake German. "It's like Che Guevara, a freedom fighter but also as a Robin Hood, because he fought for the rich on behalf of the poor ..." say some residents of Stralsund.
A figure that citizens do not pay much attention Emden-or rather no, is the medieval jurist Johannes Althusius. Althusius's fame is based in federalism, whose principles were opposed to the centralization proposed by Bodin - what happens when the world clings to the wrong ideas! -. His theory was based on the doctrine of the symbiotic association of the community, ie, based on a pluralist principle, recognized the autonomy of a community of men living together and joined by real links with a union contract, express or implied, institutionalized. Beginning with the family, federalism Althusian, was "rising" level up to the association of states, dividing sovereignty between them, - not centralized, as proposed by Bodin - so that its base would be the law, not may be imposed by a sovereign and foreordained by a deity, but by a set of secular and humane laws in terms of effective participation of community members and in successive layers. Althusius based his theories on religion Calvinist and Swiss and Dutch models. This theory and legal philosophy earned him the prestige to be called to fill the position of trustee for 34 years in Emden.
The city of Emden in 1526 became one of the first in Germany to embrace the Reformed faith. Since John Laski had been invited to Emden in 1542 by the Countess Anna to reorganize the religious life, Emden had become the "Geneva of the North." Its strategic location on the border between the German Empire and the Netherlands gave him freedom of movement vis a vis the Lord Lutheran and the Catholic Emperor. At the same time its strong Calvinist spirit allowed him to make an exceptional influence in key areas of the Netherlands and Germany. Emden was nominated as the alma mater of the Dutch Reformed Church, as was from Emden where many Dutch ministers came and went in Emden, where many exiles from persecution of the Duke of Alva found refuge. At the Synod of Emden in 1571, the Reformed Churches of the East Frisian and Lower Rhine joined the Dutch churches to form the largest union of Calvinism in the North. Emden was a major port, with close communication with England and served as a refuge for a large number of English nobles during the reaction Catholic Mary Tudor.
Emden was strong provincial conflicts with his Lord, as well as powerful and much larger units of both the German Empire and the Kingdom of Spain. Therefore, the City Council was constantly in search of a skilled leader who would guide the negotiations and the fate of the city. Altin Johann, the son of a shepherd named important Menso Alting, a student of law at Herborn, where Althusius was his teacher. Alting apparently sent his father back "Politics" of Althusius. Its reception - very friendly - gave the Emdenianos the idea of \u200b\u200bsending calling Althusius, who agreed in 1604. To see "Politics" of Althusius see here.
The city's wealth during the early seventeenth century allowed the construction of a main dam to dam the river Ems, the dam was maintained until 1616. Also built the Wall of Emden, which protected the port of troops of the Thirty Years War. In 1574, Rathaus was built or City Hall, Sea Gate until 1635 and the New Reformed Church in 1643. During the time of Althusius, Emden, was a free city, but only de facto, but not of law, it relied on the Netherlands as protecting power.
In the photos, the New Church tower, the facade of the New Church, La Puerta de Mar and Rathaus.
in Emden is now a huge port that handles about 6.75 million of Tolen (2008). The products are mostly automotive, wood products and further equipment for wind mills. The port of Emden is the third in Europe in management of Auto, after Bremerhaven and Zeebrugge. Emden is a Volkswagen factory, which produces the Passat. In much of the city are brick houses, much like Dutch and German architecture which is called brick expressionism (Backsteinexpresionismus) which is a special variant of expressionist architecture that emerged during the twenties of last century in Germany. The most influential regional points of this architecture was the great cities of northern Germany and the industrial area of \u200b\u200bRhein-Westfalen. Amsterdam School was an important part of this movement whose style also found in the Netherlands and Belgium.
As port is Emden's food is coming from the sea as well as tea (Ostfriesischer Tee), the Matjes or herring are the symbol of the region. A weekend of May is Matjes Festival, which begins with the fishing season. The herring prepared in thousand varieties are delicious! Typical of the region, too, are the fish sandwiches and as in the British island, the fish & fries. During our stay was May Sollo season, a typical flat bottom fish, white meat, soft and delicious.
As the images from the beaches of the early twentieth century, where you could see people dressed with great elegance stroll along the sand, they dress, hat and umbrella and the most daring, in a kind of dress that was supposed to be a bathing suit No, them in full signer ba striped suit and conservatives stick. L a beach full of booths and chairs replaced blue and white stripes. "I could see? Nordeney for that is, one of the 7 Islands Ostfriesland and we could visit. To get there, we first had to take a train to the coast of Norddeich, from there a ferry to the island. The island reminded me of an amusement park in the United States, houses, shops and hotels, all in harmony. A truly beautiful, the houses overlooking the beach a dream not. The coastal landscape is very different from that Mexicans are used to, but it is a spectacle of nature. We bought a couple of "backpacks" and enjoy the sea and the beach for a couple of hours before returning to the dock to take the ferry back to mainland Europe and then travel back home.
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