Abelitz-Moordorf Canal
The Abelitz-Moordorf Canal (also known in sections as (Engerhafer-Victorburer) Ehe ) is a natural flowing water in its lower reaches, whereas in its upper reaches an artificially created watercourse in the Aurich district in East Friesland . It flows through the city of Aurich , the municipality of Südbrookmerland and the Samtgemeinde Brookmerland . It drains into the Ems via the Abelitz and the Alte Greetsieler Sieltief , partly also via the Knockster Tief .
In earlier centuries, the marriage flowed from the Engerhafer-Victorburer Geest as one of the natural tributaries into the Sielmönker Bay, roughly at the level of the present-day places Cirkwehrum and Osterhusen (Hinte municipality). After the Sielmönker Bucht silted up around the year 1000 and the later expansion of the Leybucht by storm surges , the marriage ended in the latter, roughly in the area of today's municipality of Willum . The successive embankment of the Leybucht from around 1500 made it necessary to include the marriage in the drainage system through sluices on the Leybucht. At the same time, marriage - like most natural, artificially created or man-made watercourses in East Friesland - served as a shipping route for inland boatmen in the villages. These drove the lows to handle the exchange of goods between the city (in this case mostly Emden ) and the country. The marriage was the main connection between Emden and the Engerhafe / Victorbur area .
Already in 1671 planned Dodo (II.) To Innhausen and Knyphausen , which extended to the territory of the Municipality Südbrookmerland bog lands had to channel the marriage and in the bog fen colony along the lines Großefehns create. It is no longer known today why this plan failed.
The marriage became muddy over and over again in phases over the next two centuries or so - among other things due to insufficient care for maintaining the depth of the fairway and arguments about who should take over it. After East Frisia had become Prussian again in 1866, the Prussian officials in Aurich again made plans to develop the marriage into a canal and also to cultivate the then largely undeveloped moor north-west of Aurich. Ultimately, the canal was even to be extended to the coast near Bensersiel , thereby opening up the moorland south-west of Esens . But that never happened.
In the 1870s, the marriage was finally expanded in its lower reaches as far as the Geestrand near Victorbur. To the west of this, a subsequent canal was dug in a south-westerly direction towards Moordorf and from there further north-westerly into the moor area between Moordorf and Tannenhausen , where the youngest of today's Aurich districts, Georgsfeld , had been founded as a moor colony about three decades earlier . While the canal in its lower reaches was still used for the traffic with small inland vessels in the following decades, the importance of the same already decreased after the First World War and came to a complete standstill after the Second World War. In the upper reaches beyond Moordorf, village shipping had never been able to acquire any significance.
The Abelitz-Moordorf Canal, on the other hand, was of great importance for the drainage of the moorland in Südbrookmerland from the beginning and still holds this today. The I. Drainage Association Emden , based in Pewsum, is responsible for drainage .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unless otherwise referenced, this article is based on Martin Wilken: The Engerhafer-Victorburer marriage and its expansion into the Abelitz-Moordorf Canal. In: Jannes Ohling (ed.): The eight and their seven sluices. Cultural, water and agricultural development of an East Frisian coastal landscape. Drainage Association Emden, Pewsum 1963, pp. 589-647.