Leer

Leer is a town inside the district of Leer, the northwestern a part of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located at the river Leda, a tributary of the river Ems, close to the border with the Netherlands. It has a railway and autobahn connection to Groningen, Netherlands, Emden, Bremen and the South Rheine and the Ruhrpott commercial region. There are many strains of early settlements in the location, which includes crude flint tools which can be dated back to more or less 3200 BC.

In 791 AD Saint Ludger built the primary chapel in East Frisia at the western edge of the settlement Leer after which still named Hleri after feetlot, willow. This chapel is cited for the primary time in a written record from 850 AD. During the 14th and 15th centuries, Leer becomes domestic town of the Ukena family which was one most influential East Frisian chieftain families of that point. The town profited from the trade with the Hanse, and a citadel Leerort became constructed. In 1508, Count Edward acquired the reputable right to host a marketplace, which started out the culture of the Gallimarkt that's now an annual fair.