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Art Gallery / Bike Hiking / Boat Port / Brewery Museum / Camping / Canoe Hiking / Fishing/ Handelscompanie Westgroßefehn / Museum / Navigation School Timmel / "Oll Reef Hus" / Open-air Swimming Pool/ Riding / Sailing/Surfing / Smithy "Strier"/Trips by Ship / Walking
If you do not like overcrowded tourists centres and look for silence and recuperation without given up the accustomed conveniences, then you find purely your ideal vacation target into Großefehn with much nature pure. Enjoy in an incomparable landscape, silence and traditional hospitality with a cup genuine Eastfrisian tea in cosy round!
By decision of the advice of the municipality Großefehn the area Timmel/Westgroßefehn was proven as recreation area. The area is embedded in a meadow landscape that passed through from numerous lows and channels as well as ditches. The tourism developed into a significant economic factor in Großefehn.
The banks of the channels and ditches load to fishing. To the Fishing Rod Permission, the Sport Fishing Diploma is required. The fees are low. You can catch pikes, pikeperches, perches, eels, white fishes and carps.
The Fishing Permission of the district fishery league for Eastfrisia you can get in the hotel "Preußischer Adler" (Prussian Eagle) in Timmel. Phone 0 49 45 / 912 020 (two days 6 €, a week 18 € and a month 35 €).
"Frauke of Großefehn", this sailing tjalk is a flat sailing ship with site swords. In the months April until October you can charter it. Departure place is usually Westgroßefehn.
"Gretje of Großefehn" is a former peat ship (Torfmuttje), originated from the year 1913, which was rebuilt as trip ship. In the summer months it is starting from the boat port Timmel to ship on the channels nearby the Eastfrisian meadows landscape
For skipper on own keel the municipality Großefehn entertains a boat harbour with 60 berths in Timmel for ships with a one length of max. 10,50 m and a depth of max. 1.10 m.
The historical land brewery "Ostfriesenbräu" with a beer museum considers in the old dairy in Bagband. The brewery restaurant is decorated affectionately with old relics of the brewing art. The dark beer brewed like Eastfrisian tradition, furthermore beer spirits and beer liqueur are served. Beer-typical meals are sold to it. Among other things can be admired in the museum like the smallest standing bottle closer rack in operation.
You find the municipality-own campsite with modern sanitary building In Timmel and approx. 160 parking bays. For dog owners, 12 parking lots are divided off. Phone 0 49 45 / 919 711.
Heated open-air swimming pool in Holtrop and nature open-air swimming pool "Timmeler Lake" with sand and grass beach at the campsite in Timmel.
In the exhibition of Ulbargen are sawn pictures, ceramics and sculptures of Hartmut Bless and friends artists. You can also see the artists working.
Saturday of 16 to 20 o'clock, Sunday of 12 to 18 o'clock or after appointment.
Phone 0 49 43 / 41 61.
This association has the target to activate and develop the infrastructure in Westgroßefehn. Mechthild and Herbert Goechels manufacture window pictures, mirrors, and lights of glass. Phone 04945/1674.
Annchen and Herbert Uden make pottery in their type. Phone 04945/391.
Gabriele Lassere paints and creates with brush, needle and threads, silk and linen. Phone 04945/1573.
Anne Wiese offers home-made dried ham even done jams, jellies, juices, liqueur, preserves, Bologna sausages and special dried ham, called "Nagelholz" (nail wood). Phone 04945/1404.
Joe Wefers forges iron to weather vane, sundials, flower stools and window lattices. Phone 04941/63144.
CANOE HIKING
Fun and experience tours with paddle and pedal offers to travel by Canadian and bike on the tracks of the pirates and bog colonists. Mobile canoe station, bike transit, canoes with equipment for daily, week and vacation routes. On wish with barbecue or fish smoking. Home port in Westgroßefehn.
Phone 0 49 43 / 29 80.
The museum "Fehnmuseum ISLAND" was opened 1991. It consists of the main house with comfortable tea and gift room, a residence, the frame-saw and the museum smithy. In main building, the evolution of Großefehn is represented by exhibits, writing boards, graphics and models. Changing special exhibitions. Opened: tu - su 10 - 16 o'clock.
Phone 0 49 45 / 13 33.
The Nature Conservation Station "Fehntjer Tief" is low in immediate proximity.
Historical private collection of appliances, utensils and machines of our predecessors from kitchen, household and agriculture in Wrisse, Moorlager Weg 2.
Visiting hours: Sundays from 10.00 to 16.00 o'clock or after agreement.
Phone 0 49 43 / 16 94
The area of the municipality Großefehn is ideal for biking. The Bike Hiking Group Großefehn/Timmel developed a various selection of bike hiking tours and labelled cycle paths of more than 200 km.
Furthermore there is the Frisian Route "Rad up Pad", "Deutsche Fehnroute" - a round course along the rivers and the dikes - over wide routes through the area of the municipality Großefehn as well as borderless moving on the "Dollard Route".
Tourist info.: in the "Mühlenhof ", phone 0 49 43 / 920 292.
Indoor riding arena in Timmel with outside place, school horses, among them ponies, direct riding training through technical personnel, riding tours and much more besides.
Phone 0 49 45 / 13 90
Indoor Riding Arena in Aurich Oldendorf, Moorlage.
Phone 0 49 44 / 70 59.
Historical hoof and car blacksmith "Striek" in the traffic-calmed zone, Kanalstraße Nord 66, Ostgroßefehn.
Phone 0 49 43 / 920 292.
Sightseeing: 01.04. - 30.09. according to declaration/agreement.
OLD NAVIGATION SCHOOL in TIMMEL
A house of the guest with history. In 18th and 19th century the inhabitants of this marshy country began to earn their living in ever-stronger extent in the shipping. Since primarily constantly high ships were lost in the North Sea through lacking navigational knowledge the Royal Navigation Schools were established.
The former navigation school was restored 1985. A part of the navigation school is available to all vacation guests and natives as ones as house of the guest. You find therein spaces to watch television, reading, and a small gastronomy. Changing exhibitions.
Opened only for groups from 12 or more persons.
Phone 0 49 45 / 344 or 214 or 0 49 43 / 920 292.
"Timmeler Lake" in Timmel
March until Octobers for jollies and small boats.
Hike through the heart of Eastfrisia. The Walking Group of Großefehn-Timmel labelled round-foot paths. The distances are 3 to 12 km long.
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