Wiesmoor lies around 30 km inland from the North Sea in the north-western Germany in the centre of the historic district of East Frisia.

The city of Wiesmoor lies in the middle part of the East Frisian raised bog, which was formed by glaciation and contained up to 1900 layers of peat up to 8m deep.

Further to this Dr. Ramm, in co-operation with Carl Friedrich von Siemens, also planned to construct a new peat burning power plant in the area.

While in the beginning, only specialists and prison labourers came to work by 1907 the first residents to Wiesmoor began to arrive and by 1909 the peat power plant was in operation.

[3] After the war, the Ernst Benary flower company erected a further twenty greenhouses and sowed forty hectares of outdoors area.

Around 40,000 people were visiting the town annually by this time and plans were put down to for the building of a baths, an open-air stage and for the extension of the park into a health establishment.

The loss of jobs caused by the closure of the power plant was helped by the growth of local company Bohlen and Doyen who have grown to become easily the largest employer in the city.

Lower Saxony Secretary of the Interior, Uwe Schünemann, delivered the documentation personally and congratulated the city on its rapid growth over the last 100 years.

On Friday 13 January 1989, a half year after the Ramstein Airshow Disaster, there was a collision of several military jets at low altitude over the Hinrichsfehn area of Wiesmoor.

A Panavia Tornado ZD891 of 14 Sqn of the Royal Air Force collided with a squadron of German Alphas Jets of the Jagdbombergeschwader 43 division.

British at Bruggen, flying at 150 metres, hit a German military aircraft at 9.50am, of squadron Jagdbombergeschwader 43, and crashed near a village.

On the Saturday evening of the festival the old Blütenkönigin parachutes over the sports ground which is the signal to start a party which culminates in a large fireworks display.

A new Blütenkönigin is selected on the Sunday afternoon and on Monday the festival concludes with the ‘Kanal in Flammen’ (literally canal in flames) which is a large fireworks display held on and around the Nordgeorgsfehnkanal