Seekamp

That Friday, Heinrich Clüver sold a piece of land near Bollen known as the Seekampswerder to the church, who in turn leased the land to two brothers: Hinrich and Brüne.

[2] Werder are small, cultivated pieces of land, on a river, which become rich and fertile over time through the ebb and flow of river floods.

The Seekamp name is formed from German See meaning 'lake', and kamp, a Low German word meaning 'enclosed, fenced, or hedged piece of land', which in turn comes from the Latin word campus meaning 'plain'.

So a Seekamp, in the literal meaning of the word, is a lake-field.

By the early 1700s, descendants of Hinrich Seekamp and his brother had become established families in the surrounding villages: Bollen, Uphusen, Bierden, Mahndorf, Embsen, and the towns of Achim and Arbergen.