title: Esens, Lower Saxony
text: # Esens, Lower Saxony
  
  Esens is a municipality in the district of Wittmund, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated near the North Sea coast, approx. 14 km northwest of Wittmund, and 20 km northeast of Aurich.
  
  * Esens townhall in wintertime
  * Aerial view of Esens harbour Bensersiel
  
  Esens is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Esens.
  
  ## Sons and daughters of the city
  
  * David Fabricius (1564-1617), theologian, major amateur astronomer and cartographer
  * Johann Hülsemann (1602-1661), Lutheran theologian
  * Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714), composer
  * Christian Everhard, Prince of East Frisia (1665-1708), Prince of East Friesland from the House of Cirksena
  * Enno Rudolph Brenneysen, (1669-1734), jurist and chancellor of East Friesland
  * Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725-1776), theologian, zoologist and professor in Erlangen
  * Theodore Thomas (conductor) (1835-1905), composer, founder of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  * Gerhard Tappen (1866-1953), General of the Artillery
  * Timo Schultz (born 1977), German footballer
  