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Esens, Lower Saxony

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Country
  
Germany

District
  
Wittmund

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Population
  
6,934 (31 Dec 2008)

State
  
Lower Saxony

Municipal assoc.
  
Esens

Postal codes
  
26427

Local time
  
Tuesday 10:58 PM

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Weather
  
2°C, Wind S at 6 km/h, 84% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Wattenhuus Bensersiel, Peldemühle, Museum „Leben am Meer“, Siegfried Esmarch, Ferienhof Inselblick

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.

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Map of 26427 Esens, Germany

Esens is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Esens.

Sons and daughters of the city

  • 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

    Esens, Lower Saxony Wikipedia
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