Harlingerland (Ost-Friesland)

Het Harlingerland is de naam van een gebied langs de Waddenzee in Oost-Friesland. Tegenwoordig wordt met het Harlingerland meestal het gehele district Wittmund aangeduid; het historische Harlingerland komt echter overeen met het noorden van het district, met name de huidige gemeenten Esens en Wittmund. Het Harlingerland was onderdeel van het Vorstendom Oost-Friesland en een van de gouwen binnen de Zeven Friese Zeelanden.

Het Harlingerland rond 1300

Name:	Harlingerland
Delimitation:	North Sea with the islands Langeoog and Spiekeroog, Geest border, neighbouring entities Norderland, Auricher Land, Wangerland
Size:	Approx. 657 km² (administrative district Wittmund)
Location - map:	Sea marsh in the western part of Lower Saxony, Germany
Origin of name:	Wangerland is a historical name which can be traced back about 1200 years to the Friesian Gau Wanga. The name Wangerland is derived from the Friesian Wanga, a pasture or plain. The earliest mention of the name (in two different sources) was in 787 AD. The Wanga is mentioned in the chronicles of Moissac Abbey in southern France, and also in the Vita of Saint Willehad.
Relationship/similarities with other cultural entities:	Similar Heritage and cultural landscape to Norderland and parts of Wangerland/Jeverland. Shares tourist activities with both the mainland and island coastal resorts. Used similar sod techniques on the Geest similarly to other Geest areas such as Auricherland.
Characteristic elements and ensembles:	Dwelling mound landscape with its large village mounds and massive farmhouses. The maritime heritage significant of coastal regions is reflected by dykes and floodgates as well as by sluice harbours. Lake marsh, Geest, peatland areas, tourism, agriculture rural house forms with Frisian gulf-houses, loose scattered villages, sluices, linear settlements and settlements on dykes.