Beek (Heringsdorf)

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Beek
Aal-Beek, Ahl-Beeke, Aalbach

Data
location Usedom , Vorpommern-Greifswald district , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Germany
River system Beek
River basin district Warnow / Peene
origin Gothensee
53 ° 55 '50 "  N , 14 ° 8' 45"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 55 '50 "  N , 14 ° 8' 45"  E
muzzle in the Baltic Sea

length 4.1 km
Right tributaries Drainage canal of the Thurbruch
ditches in the Parchenniederung
Flowing lakes Parchensee (silted up)
Communities Heringsdorf OT Ahlbeck

The Beek , historically also Aal-Beek , Ahl-Beeke or Aalbach [e] , is a watercourse in the area of ​​the municipality of Heringsdorf on Usedom in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald . It is the natural outflow of the Gothensee and thus the Thurbruch to the Baltic Sea . The district of Ahlbeck is named after the body of water.

The Beek begins at the northeastern end of the southeastern foothills of the Gothensee and runs in a northeastern direction through the Parchenniederung to the district of Ahlbeck , which takes its name from it. This approximately 2900 m long section has been straightened. From the railway line between Ahlbeck and Heringsdorf, it runs underground for a length of more than 1200 m through Ahlbeck to the Baltic Sea.

history

After the end of the last ice age, the Thurbruch basin was created. During the Littorina Transgression , the Baltic Sea had direct access to the Thurbruch Basin between 8000 and 6000 BCE through the Parchenniederung. Then began a process of bog. During storm floods , water from the Baltic Sea repeatedly reached Gothensee and Thurbruch via the Parchenniederung and the Beek until the 19th century.

In the Middle Ages, the Beek and the main tributary of the Gothensee, the Bäck, were regarded as a river and called Lassovnisza . In 1243, Duke Barnim I gave the Lassovnisza to the Stolpe Monastery . In the middle of the 13th century there were border disputes with the Grobe monastery, as a result of which the Lassovnisza had to be ceded to Grobe. Until the secularization of the monastery, the Beek formed the boundary of the monastery properties. Then it was the border of the Pudagla office , which belonged to the respective sovereign or the state. The Beek is shown on the Lubin map from 1618. At that time, the Parchensee through which it flows was still in the Parchenniederung. Near the mouth of the Baltic Sea drew Eilhard Lubin a Aalkiste ( Ale crate a), indicating the importance of the eel fisheries points in the area.

Carl Leonhard Müller von der Lühne , owner of the Gothen estate on the left bank , had a water mill built around 1700 on the Aal-Beeke, about 400 meters behind the eel crate . He leased the grain and cutting mill to Michael Agner, a miller from the Stargarder Heide. The damming of the mills led to a constantly high water level in the Thurbruch, which had an unfavorable effect on the pastures in the neighboring villages, as the meadows were often flooded. According to Schwatke's map, the width of the Aal Beck in the section between the Gothensee and the Parchensee was up to 80 meters. Franz Balthasar Schönberg von Brenkenhoff , commissioned by the Prussian King Friedrich II with the renovation of the Thurbruch, bought the mill for 3700 thalers in 1772 and had it removed. This enabled the water to flow out of the Gothensee again unhindered. Twelve colonist families were settled on the right bank of the Aal-Beek. They were given the duty to ensure the water drainage of the Beek; in particular, they had to keep the section between the Parchensee and the estuary clear at all times.

At the end of the 18th century the water drainage was again insufficient. The mouth of the Aal-Beek, which was more than six meters wide east of the Parchensee, was silted up. Drifted sand from the Korswandter Heide was probably the cause, which at that time was not sufficiently afforested. Finally, the Aal-Beek and the Knüppelgraben were cleaned at a cost of together 600 thalers.

With the completion of the Sack Canal in 1819, the Aal-Beek was no longer the sole outflow from Gothensee and Thurbruch. It now carried less water. After the Gothensee was temporarily drained from 1860 via the Sack Canal, the runoff through the Beek fell sharply again. Around 1870 it usually had no running water because the estuary was also silted up, and it sometimes dried up in summer. The Parchensee silted up.

In 1898 the Beek was canalized and piped within the Ahlbeck urban development. She was also led through the beach dunes with the pipe .

literature

  • Benno von Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff: The "Aal-Beek Colonists" and the Thurbruch on the island of Usedom in Western Pomerania. J.-G.-Herder-Bibliothek Siegerland eV, Siegen 1992.
  • Wilhelm H. Pantenius, Claus Schönert: Between Haff and Heringsdorf - The Thurbruch on Usedom . Neuendorf Verlag, Neubrandenburg 1999, ISBN 3-931897-11-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 2, Stettin 1925, pp. 659, 690 and 694.
  2. ^ Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 2, Stettin 1925, p. 274.