Heete
The Heete (also Hethe or Heet ) was an old estuary of the Weser . It was diked around 1450, according to other sources around 1500.
From the middle of the 14th to the beginning of the 16th century, the Weser had an estuary with three side arms in the Jade Bay, which was essentially formed in the 12th century . The Heete ran west of today's Nordenham and formed the border between the islands of Butjadingen and Stadland . The ancestor bounded the Stadland to the west; extended by the Lockfleth in the south, it flowed from today's Brake in a north-north-westerly direction into the Jade Bay. The Liene finally branched north of Elsfleth from the main stream of the Weser in a westerly direction into the Frisian Bellows , which, beginning east of Rastede and flowing northwards at low tide, poured into the Jade Bay as the forerunner of the Jade River . These three main arms of the Weser branched off into various side arms.
The three brackish waters Heete, (Alte) Ahne and Lockfleth (with Neuer Ahne) as well as the Frisian bellows were created by salt water ingress from the North Sea, which filled with the sweet Weser water at low tide. During strong floods, a fourth connection arose from the Frisian bellows (salty) and the Lienebruch, which emanated from the Weser .
Description from the 18th century
In 1798 Johann G. Visbeck wrote in his handbook of the Duchy of Oldenburg:
“A third arm of the Weser, the Heete (Hethe), also came out of the Weser as a fairly wide, navigable river in the area of Atens , or, as some believe, in two different places, namely the main arm near the old Atens Siels, and the tributary a little further south, in the area of the Portsieler dike. The main arm made the border between Stad- and Butjadingerland, and probably flowed, united with the ancestor, at the former Stollhammer Siel in the Jade Bay. At high tide, the water flowed from the Jade Bay through Stad and Butjadingerland into the Weser; reversed at low tide. The former significant width of this river is already evident from the circumstance: when in the war between the city of Bremen and its allies (1400) with the Butjadinger Frisians, the Bremer built a ship bridge over this river, they had to build 20 eken (long, narrow, about 10 ships up to 15 feet wide). It was first dammed up in the area of Moorsee, probably in 1450, and then used on the Weser side at the Atenser Siel, and part of it to the Sieltief. Long after this damming, which also made the middle sand previously located in the Weser (a Weser island about 700 Jück large) established with the Oldenburg, the Weser water, especially that of the Weser arm dammed in 1746, called the small Weser, still had a lot strong pull to the former Heete estuary. "
Individual evidence
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^ A b Johann G. Visbeck: Handbook of a historical-statistical-geographical description of the Duchy of Oldenburg . 1798, p. 66.
Facsimile of the book on Google Books. - ^ Diedrich Rudolf Ehmck : The Friedeburg. A contribution to the history of Bremen's Weseppolitik. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 3. Bremen 1868, p. 82.
- ^ To Weser and Jade, 1430–1499 Article on the website of the journalist Klaus Dede
- ↑ The sea means a curse and a blessing ( Memento from November 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Article in the anniversary supplement for the 125th anniversary of the Wesermarsch district newspaper on June 29, 2001
- ^ Dietrich Hagen / Heinrich Schmidt / Günter König: Oldenburg. Land between the North Sea and Dammer Bergen ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 725 kB). Hanover. Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education 1999, p. 30
