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Westeraccum

human settlement in Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 21, 2024
Entity authorityQ1753149 ↗
Source-derived summary

Westeraccum is an East Frisian village in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is an Ortsteil of the municipality of Dornum, in the district of Aurich. The village is located just to the northeast of Dornum.

Etymology

Westeraccum was first mentioned in documents in the early 12th century as Westrachem. Later names were Westeragheim, Westerachem (around 1200), and Wester Accum (1684). This is a combination of the first name Acke with -heim ("residential place") and the western direction.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Westeraccum” as human settlement in Germany. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1200, 1684—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Westeraccum, human and settlement can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as human settlement in Germany. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 21, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1753149. Authority coordinates are 53.650, 7.444. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1200 and 1684.

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This entry incorporates text from “Westeraccum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.