Jever, Schortens und das Wangerland

Püttbier and Brüllmarkt, Marienläuten, Krähenklappern, Klootschiessen, and "True Passions" - there are many occasions to marvel at during a visit to Jever. The 14,000-inhabitant town in the heart of Friesland breathes history like few others in Northern Germany. A plaster cast of the famous coffered ceiling in the castle is said to have made it all the way to Sydney. In any case, it is one of the many stories shared in the neighboring "secret" town of Schortens and the villages nestled behind the dike in the windy Wangerland. There, the nuns from Oestringfelde are said to have behaved so wildly that the Grand Duke of Oldenburg intervened. And the captains of Hooksiel cleverly showed the French occupiers, with cunning and double floorboards, what the stubborn Northerners thought of the Continental Blockade. This book tells the story of one of the last Int.