{{Infobox German place | Name = Engerhafe | Art = Village | image_photo = Engerhafe-Kirche-msu-0631.jpg | imagesize = | image_caption = John the Baptist Church | Wappen = | image_flag = | coordinates = {{coord|53.48542|N|7.29820|E|region:DE|display=inline,title}} | Lageplan = | Lageplanbeschreibung = | Bundesland = Lower Saxony | Regierungsbezirk = | Landkreis = Aurich | Kreis = | Amt = | Municipality = Südbrookmerland | Gemeindeverwaltungsverband = | Samtgemeinde = | Verbandsgemeinde = | Verwaltungsgemeinschaft = | Verwaltungsverband = | Höhe = 1.3 | pop_metro = {{circa}} 600 | area_metro = | Vorwahl = 04942 | Kfz = 26624 | website = }} '''Engerhafe''' is an East Frisian village in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is part of the municipality of Südbrookmerland, administratively belonging to the ''Ortsteil'' of Oldeborg. The village is located on a spur of a Geest that runs through the middle of East Frisia.
==History== The village appears under the names ''Buta-Ee'' ("outside the Ee") and ''Uthengrahove'' ("hove" indicates a court location) in documents from the period between 1250 and 1276. The construction of the church of Engerhafe, dedicated to John the Baptist, also dates from that period. The church has a detached bell tower and a borg from the fifteenth century that serves as a rectory.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bibliothek.ostfriesischelandschaft.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/dateiarchiv/3218/Engerhafe.pdf |title=Engerhafe |website=Ostfriesische Landschaft |access-date=27 October 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
Since 1938, it has been part of the municipality of Oldeborg, together with the villages of Fehnhusen, Oldeborg, and Upende, which in turn has been an ''Ortsteil'' of the municipality of Südbrookmerland since 1972.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.grossesmeer.de/kultur-region/ortschaft-oldeborg |title=Wilkommen in Oldeborg |website=Südbrookmerland |access-date=27 October 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
==Concentration camp== {{Further interlanguage link|Engerhafe concentration camp|de|KZ Engerhafe}} A concentration camp was built near the village in October 1944 as a branch of the Neuengamme camp. Around 2,000 people were interned in the camp under inhumane conditions, mainly resistance fighters, forced laborers, and hostages from the Netherlands. The camp inmates were put to work between October and December 1944 in the construction of the so-called ''Friesenwall'', a defense line part of the Atlantic Wall that the Nazis built from the Dutch border to Denmark. When the camp was closed again in December, around 200 prisoners had not survived. The survivors were sent back to Neuengamme.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/en/history/satellite-camps/satellite-camps/aurich-engerhafe/ |title=Aurich-Engerhafe |website=KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme |access-date=28 October 2024}}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery> Churchtower_of_Engerhafe.jpg|Church tower Engerhafe_Pfarrhaus.jpg|Rectory KZ-Außenlager Engerhafe-Mahnmal-2024-msu-7456-.jpg|Memorial site Engerhafe concentration camp </gallery>
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Category:Südbrookmerland Category:Villages in Lower Saxony Category:Towns and villages in East Frisia