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Esens Bear Statue

Esens Bear Statue

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Esens Bear Statue

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Location: Esens, Wittmund, East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany

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1. Neuharlingersiel Harbor – Esens Town Center loop from Neuharlingersiel

34.6km

02:09

50m

Intermediate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Esens Bear Statue – Esens Town Center loop from Blockhausen

17.0km

01:00

30m

Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Pathway Along the Benser Tief – Esens Town Center loop from Bensersiel

9.59km

00:39

10m

Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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RALF G. 🚲🍀

September 14, 2021

How did the bear get into the coat of arms?
A bear guide once came to Esens. But he came at an inopportune time, because the knight Balthasar, the lord of the fortress, was at war with his neighbors and the enemies came to the city and besieged it. So the stranger couldn't get out again, and his bear was locked in an old tower.

The Junker Balthasar did not want to surrender, but the warbands in front of the city did not give up. They didn't let anyone into the city, thinking that the Essenes would soon run out of food and that hunger would conquer them. The food inside was actually running low and before long there was great distress among those trapped. They already believed that they had to open their gates to the enemy if they didn't want to die of hunger. Then there arose for them a savior whom no one thought of.

The bear had been completely forgotten and no one had given it food. The animal ran back and forth in hunger, trying to find a way out. But there was only one spiral staircase, narrow and steep, which you could use to climb to the top of the tower. The bear groped its heavy steps up the steps, one after the other, and finally it became light above him and he stood at the top. But he didn't find what he was looking for to fill himself up here. Then he was seized by angry despair, he stood on his hind legs and grabbed the parapet with his paws, so that the stones of the old walls came loose and rumbled into the depths. He roared with all his might so that everyone's eyes turned up in horror. When the besiegers saw a bear standing up there, they were frightened. They believed that the Essenes had led him there on purpose to show them that they could feed even such a superfluous animal and were far from thinking of surrendering. And because they were running low on supplies, they decided to leave.

The knight Balthasar and his followers could not believe their eyes when they saw the enemy turn their backs on the city. The bear was brought down from the tower in triumph, and in gratitude for his unconscious act of rescue, they put his image on their city coat of arms.

By Wilhelmine Siefkes
From the reading book East Frisia, people, destinies, landscape, nature
ISBN 3-87706-032-3
Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt and printing company, Hanover

(Source nordsee-esens-bensersiel.de/baeren/wappen.htm)

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Petra 🚴‍♀️🎒🥾

March 29, 2022

We think the bears in Essens are absolutely beautiful. Some shops have their own bear

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March 30, 2022

Essen's landmark

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Location: Esens, Wittmund, East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Esens Bear Statue

1. Neuharlingersiel Harbor – Esens Town Center loop from Neuharlingersiel

2. Esens Bear Statue – Esens Town Center loop from Blockhausen

3. Pathway Along the Benser Tief – Esens Town Center loop from Bensersiel

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