Blocksberg (Flensburg)

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Blocksberg stone at the Blocksberg farm

Blocksberg ( Danish : Bloksbjerg ) is an area of ​​the city of Flensburg in the east of the city, in the neighboring Wees . The area is part of a green corridor that extends from the Flensburg harbor , over the Lautrupsbachtal , Adelby , Vogelsang , Blocksberg and Tremmeruper Wald to Glücksburg Castle .

history

Apparently people had been in the area since ancient times. Until its destruction at the end of the 19th century, this was testified by the large stone grave Wees , which was not far from Blocksberg. Johann Christian Gude also reported in the 18th century that in the area around Flensburg and Glücksburg "many grave mounds were previously found that were destroyed in a short period of time because the stones were hewn and used for building." He went on to report : “Not far from the Heckkate on Flensburgschen Weg there is a small hill overgrown with a few oaks, where a pagan altar and from which the stones could still be seen a few years ago. Such a secluded place was called Hayn, Lucus, Hagen or Hege, and was a sacred forest. The old Nordic pagans and pagan Holsteiners had no temples, but only stone altars under an oak tree, where they worshiped, and where even they themselves sacrificed their idols in blood. These altars were located between west and east and consisted of 3 or 4 large stones, over which a large flat stone lay. ”The said rear gate (Kate closed rear) was on the edge of the Blocksberg area. In addition, other traces of past human life were discovered. On his quite large arable land, the Blocksberg farmer noticed ancient, black, charcoal-containing burn marks while plowing in the 20th century .

When exactly and under what exact circumstances the area got its name is unclear. The name Blocksberg refers to a so-called “ Hexentanzplatz ” on a mountain, but apparently there was never a high mountain there, even if the land formation may have changed a little over time due to the cultivation of the land . Nevertheless, people also believed in the existence of witches in the Flensburg area. In Flensburg, witch trials and burnings have been handed down from the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century . In 1563 the Flensburg Council passed a corresponding death sentence, in 1564 four such death sentences. 1608 and 1620 were executions of persons who were accused of witchcraft, instead. In the course of time, a total of 14 women were burned at Galgenberg near Galwik .

Around 1400 Blocksberg belonged to the nobleman Peter Lund. From his daughter Catharina the St. Jürgenhospital (cf. St. Jürgen-Kirche (Flensburg) ) received the Vogelsang around 1430, to which Blocksberg may well have belonged. But a clear naming of the Blocksberg area with regard to these processes has not been handed down. At that time, the area did not belong to the city of Flensburg, but to the Adelby parish .

At the end of the 16th century, Duke Johann the Younger had Glücksburg Castle built about 6 km away . He also had a game fence ( Low German : Heck) built around the parish of Munkbrarup , which was in his possession . This wild fence was also located on the edge of the Blocksberg area, which was also supposed to keep unwanted people away. In addition, there was a passage gate on the edge . The Kätner was responsible for opening the gate , which is why the cottage there received its name closed-back in the following years. The name closed tail is not unique in the area of ​​the former parish Munkbrarup. Another farm with the name closed tail exists in Dollerup , which obviously has the same background.

In 1717 the area was first mentioned under the name Blocksberg in a document from the St. Jürgen Hospital. In the 1850s there weren't many buildings in the Blocksberg area. A Kate Blocksberg , which apparently belonged to the St. Jürgen Hospital, has come down to us. From 1885 the Flensburg circular railway stopped in Kauslund , which Blocksberg borders in the west. Not far away in Wees the train stopped again. Due to the construction of the said railway, the terrain formation of the area may have changed again.

Anecdote about the witch superstition

View from the Blocksberg viewpoint over the Blocksberg area

Even at the beginning of the 19th century, there were apparently Flensburg residents who believed in witchcraft. An anecdote from JJ Callsen from Flensburg has come down to us from the 1830s, in which the Blocksberg is also mentioned by name. Callsen reported in 1901: “In the thirties I still knew an old woman who, according to popular judgment, should be a witch. She certainly rode a broomstick up the Blocksberg every year to the witch's dance. She has been seen riding out of the chimney and in again. It was said that she did not cross a broomstick, and when she stepped into the large hall of our house [...] once during the threshing, the servant quickly threw a broomstick across the entrance when he saw her coming in the distance. She ignored him, ignored the way I watched carefully as a boy; nevertheless the servant said stiffly that she had walked around the broomstick. The old woman often came to us; there was nothing striking about it; on the contrary, it was very dear to us children. She usually baked her bread in our oven, drew the same thing with a wooden stamp with several crosses, which was interpreted by others as a witch's mark. But she never bewitched us. ”In addition to this anecdote, there is also the legend of the crowing rooster in Flensburg , in which the motif of witchcraft plays a role, but it plays a role in the Hohlwege area . Another legend, The Flying Witch , is about Husby , which is also not far from Blocksberg.

Blocksberg these days

Blocksberg was only incorporated with Twedt in 1910 . After the incorporation, the area is now in the northeastern area of Engelsby and in the southeastern area of Mürwik . The area is separated from the north road into a small south part and a large north part. From the aforementioned north road, which has replaced the aforementioned circular path since 1954, the Blocksberg dirt road goes south and north. The entire area east of the dirt road to the border of the municipality of Wees is now called Blocksberg. In the north, the area ends at the Fördewald , which in this area belongs to the Twedter Feld area. The area to the west of the Blocksberg field path running north (it was named on April 5, 1961) also belongs to Twedter field. The area west of the Blocksberg dirt road to the south belongs to Kauslund. To the east of the southern part of Blocksberg lies Himmershoi , which belongs to Wees. The Blocksberg area still largely consists of arable land. Along the way of the north road that lies yard Blocksberg , the farmer to the agriculture and cattle farming pursues. On the edge of the area, at the point where the Heckkate used to be, is the closed rear yard, which apparently already stands in parts in the municipal area of ​​Wees. There are also three single-family houses at the southern end of the Blocksberg dirt road . There is also a field of flowers where flowers can be picked for money.

The Blocksberg area is one of the landscape protection areas of the city of Flensburg . You can therefore get from the local recreation area Vogelsang , via Blocksberg, into the Twedter Feld nature reserve to the Fördewald and from there on to the city of Glücksburg, so that you can spend almost all of your time in the open, undeveloped nature. At the northern end of the Blocksberg dirt road there is now the Blocksberg viewpoint on a small hill, which was apparently created with the help of the German Nature Conservation Union . As mentioned, the landscape formation has changed step by step as a result of various construction measures. Most recently, in 2010, district heating pipes were laid in the Blockberg area right next to Nordstrasse, connecting Wees to the district heating of the city of Flensburg . Nevertheless, nature continues to dominate the area today, largely in a cultivated form.

  • Blocksberg street sign

  • The Blocksberg dirt road to the north

  • Blocksberg lookout point

  • Raspberry bushes on the dirt road

More blocks of mountains nearby

In addition to the Blocksberg area in Flensburg, there are other Blocksberg mountains nearby:

  • Blocksberg Street exists in neighboring Glücksburg , on a hill built with single-family houses.
  • A little further away, a place in the municipality of Galmsbüll is called Blocksberg. It is also the stop of the Niebüll – Dagebüll small railway .
  • Also further away, in Kiel there is Blocksberg Street , but it was apparently named that way in 1869 after a gardener named Block.

In Flensburg there is also the Finisberg street near the Volkspark , which refers to the Venusberg there and has been in use since 1793. In the case of Venusbergen, a connection to witches was also sometimes drawn.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 435
  2. ↑ See Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, page 639 ff. (Section on Wees)
  3. ^ Johann Christian Gude: Report from the Sundewitt Peninsula , 1788, page 95; This note was also reprinted again, in a somewhat shorter form, in: Flensburger Straßeennamen . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Geschlossenheck
  4. ↑ So the farmer from the Blocksberg farm. (The last name given by Röschmann corresponds to the last name of the owner from 2014.)
  5. ↑ Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, page 205 (section on Flensburg)
  6. ^ A b Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Blocksberg
  7. ↑ a b c d Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Blocksberg
  8. ↑ See Flensburg Journal, Das Flensburger Stadtarchiv, Das Gedächtnis der Stadt , from January 29, 2014, accessed on July 17, 2014
  9. ↑ See witch tracking in Schleswig-Holstein ..., crime scene Flensburg ( memento of the original from December 21, 2012 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. ; Retrieved July 18, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschichte-sh.de
  10. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: witch tracking
  11. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Galgenbucht
  12. ↑ Cf. Gerret Liebing Schlaber: From the country to the district. Flensburg's Stadtfeld and the incorporated villages in pictures and words approx. 1860–1930. Flensburg 2009. Page 124 f.
  13. ↑ See Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Trögelsbyhof and Vogelsanger Weg
  14. ↑ See Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Blocksberg; In the hospital certificate from 1717 cited there it says: "Vogelsanck or Blocksberg"
  15. ↑ Schleswig place names in Danish, German, Frisian, Blocksberg , accessed on July 21, 2014
  16. ↑ a b Cf. Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Geschlossenheck
  17. ↑ Wolfgang Lindow: Low German-High German dictionary. 5th edition. 1998, entry: Heck
  18. ↑ a b c Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Geschlossenheck
  19. ↑ See Schleswig place names in Danish, German, Frisian, closed tail , accessed on July 20, 2014
  20. ↑ Cf. Gundula Hubrich-Messow: Legends and fairy tales from fishing , Husum 1987, page 15
  21. ↑ See also: Gerret Liebing Schlaber: From the country to the district. Flensburg's Stadtfeld and the incorporated villages in pictures and words approx. 1860–1930. Flensburg 2009. page 125
  22. ↑ Gerret Liebing Schlaber: From the country to the district. Flensburg's Stadtfeld and the incorporated villages in pictures and words approx. 1860–1930. Flensburg 2009. Page 124
  23. ↑ Jakob Röschman mentions some of the changes in the landscape that resulted from the construction of the north road; See prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein 6. Neumünster 1963, page 640 (site 21) and page 641 (stone grave 27)
  24. ↑ The same J. J Callsen , who was a teacher at St. Johannis in Flensburg and who had written a book called botany in the elementary school in 1873 , and in 1895 the book fishing and the west, the Flensburger Schulwesen until 1886 description of the districts of Flensburg and Schleswig for school and home ; See also there and Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Callsenweg
  25. ↑ Die Heimat , monthly of the Association for the Care of Nature and Regional Studies, 11th year, No. 6, June 1901, section: Communications, page 122; The anecdote was also reprinted in: Gundula Hubrich-Messow: Sagen und Märchen aus Flensburg , Husum 1992, page 10, but without naming the author and shortened in such a way that it is not entirely clear from which region the author comes
  26. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 413
  27. ↑ a b Falk-Verlag : Flensburg city map with Glücksburg, Harrislee, Padborg, 1991, 17th edition
  28. ↑ a b Falk-Verlag : City map Flensburg + area map, 2013
  29. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Nordstrasse
  30. ^ Cities-Verlag: Map of Flensburg, 14th edition; The city map was probably created around 2013.
  31. ↑ See Gerhard Nowc : Twedt: The mother of Mürwik in Flensburger Tageblatt , April 1, 2010; Retrieved on: July 12, 2014
  32. ↑ vdl : Suspicion refuted : In Wees, no farmer applied liquid manure in snow in Flensburger Tageblatt , December 13, 2012; Retrieved on: July 17, 2014
  33. ↑ See Genealogy. Hof closed rear , accessed on: June 8, 2020
  34. ^ NSG Twedter Feld , accessed on July 21, 2014
  35. ↑ # 91 = 958 & cHash = d86c0ee6b4 Now start of construction for district heating pipeline from Stadtwerke Flensburg to Wees - 1st groundbreaking after frost and snow ( memento of the original from July 27, 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. ; Retrieved July 20, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtwerke-flensburg.de
  36. ↑ # 91 = 958 & cHash = cf444d8f63 District heating march! From now on, the first houses in Wees will be supplied with district heating from Stadtwerke Flensburg. Ester groundbreaking was on March 10, 2010. ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved July 20, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtwerke-flensburg.de
  37. ^ Schleswig place names in Danish, German, Frisian, Blocksberg, North Friesland , accessed on July 17, 2014
  38. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Finisberg
  39. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 437, entry: Finnisberg
  40. ^ Flensburg-Online, Hexen , accessed on July 17, 2014 and: Flensburg-Online, Finisberg , accessed on July 17, 2014

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