Bürgerweide (Worms)

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The Bürgerweide (locally also woods ) is a local recreation area south of the city center of Worms in Rhineland-Palatinate . A part of the area in the southeast of the Bürgerweide was converted into an uncontrolled floodplain between 1999 and 2002 by relocating the main Rhine dike .

Bürgerweide is part of the conservation area, Rheinhessisches Rhine area , a partial area in the south is a nature reserve Wormser Ried reported.

history

Originally the citizens pasture was used as pasture for the cattle of the citizens of Worms; it was owned by the city from around 1200. In the late Middle Ages, various places in the Worms area acquired the right to graze, which they exercised by mowing or driving cattle. In 1828, the authorizations were reorganized, the city of Worms compensated the participating communities of Beindersheim , Heppenheim an der Wiese , Hochheim , Kleinniedesheim , Leiselheim , Mörsch , Nieder-Flörsheim , Offstein and Pfiffligheim financially and thus came into sole ownership of the Bürgerweide. Until the last quarter of the 19th century, the sale of grass represented an essential item of income in the city budget. In order to secure this income, repeated renovation and dyke construction work was necessary in the area of ​​the Bürgerweide.

With the end of the use as urban hay meadows at the end of the 19th century, the so-called “grove” was created on a sub-area close to the city in the north, the areas further south were used as arable land or - in the flood plain of the Rhine - as pasture areas. In 1904, the "grove" was integrated into a large park, the Worms city park. As part of this work, the twelve-meter-high "Äschebuckel" (from ash : local for waste ) was heaped up. With the exception of the hag memorial erected in 1905, further plans for a redesign into a "rose garden", which was supposed to incorporate themes from the rose garden song and the Nibelungenlied , were not implemented. In 1932 the city park was redesigned in the style of a landscape park, the Hagendenkmal was moved to the banks of the Rhine.

South of the city park, the Worms Zoo was built from 1972 onwards from the holdings of a bird protection association . Around the same time, the areas adjoining to the south were afforested, and a playground and a barbecue hut were created within the area (both abandoned today). Between 1999 and 2002, the Rheinhauptdeich was moved back to the southeast of the Bürgerweide in order to create a non-controllable floodplain.

location

The Bürgerweide is around 1.5 km south of Worms city center. It is located between Landesstraße 523 (formerly B 9 ) in the west, the city center in the north, the Rhine in the east and the Eckbach in the south. The B 9 cuts it in a north-south direction, the Altbach flows through it in a west-east direction and flows into the Rhine in the northeast of the Bürgerweide.

use

Today the Bürgerweide is mainly used for recreational purposes. The recreational facilities include the city park, the zoo, the school and environmental garden, a large playground, several allotment gardens , various sports facilities and the Worms airfield . The floodplain is also used for recreation when it is not flooded. Partial areas in the west and north-east are used for agriculture. There is a closed garbage dump on the southern edge of the Bürgerweide .

Floodplain

To create the floodplain, the main Rhine dike between Rhine kilometers 440.2 and 441.4 was removed and replaced by a three-kilometer-long dike that was moved back. The resulting flood area of ​​around 68 hectares offers a storage volume of around 2 million m³ . The area is flooded from a water level of 5.20 m at the Worms gauge.

Within the polder, parts of the area were converted into extensive grassland or prepared for the development of alluvial forests . In addition, amphibious pools and "animal rescue islands" were created. The Altbach, which runs to the north of the flood area, was renatured, and a pumping station was built at its confluence with the flood plain to prevent backwater into the hinterland. The basis of the terrain modeling was the Haas map from 1801.

literature

  • Ludwig Glaser : History of the Worms Bürgerweide . In: Journal for the agricultural associations of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Vol. 30, 1860, pp. 375-386 et al. 389-399 ( online [accessed January 22, 2016]).
  • Heinrich Boos : History of the Rhenish urban culture from its beginnings to the present with particular consideration of the city of Worms . tape 3 . Berlin 1899, p. 72-77 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerold Bönnen (ed.): History of the city of Worms . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 , p. 200 .
  2. ↑ Gerold Bönnen (ed.): History of the city of Worms . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 , p. 441 f .
  3. ↑ Gerold Bönnen (ed.): History of the city of Worms . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 , p. 535 .
  4. ^ Johann Ludwig Valentin Glaser (Grünberg 1818 - Mannheim 1898) NDB

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 34 ″  N , 8 ° 23 ′ 15 ″  E