Bremen dune

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The Bremen dune is part of the slightly more than 20 kilometers long dune ridge that extends from the Geest area of the Verden Heide in a north-westerly direction, initially along the Achim-Verdener Geest parallel to the Weser to Burg-Grambke . The Bremen dune separates the Wümmen lowlands from the Weser lowlands . The formation of the Bremen dune is traced back to the end of the last ice age, when the vegetation was still very sparse on the areas that were just released from the ice. The dune also had a decisive influence on the current course of the Weser. As a flood-free strip between the two lowlands, it shows numerous traces of early settlement.

Most of Bremen's old town stands on the Bremen dune , with the cathedral at the highest point . Older suburbs such as Ostertor and Steintorviertel and Utbremen are also located on it, as well as the row of old village centers from Mahndorf to Burg-Grambke , located between the Weser and the Wunstorf – Bremen – Bremerhaven railway line . The railway line roughly follows the eastern edge of the Bremen dune. The dune ridge has a few gaps, for example near Mahndorf, in the Dobben / Sielwall area and near the Brill . At that time, ditches connected the waters of the Wümmen lowlands with the Weser.

Over the centuries, earthworks in the context of development, flood protection and fortifications such as the Bremen city wall have resulted in the Bremen dune only being recognizable as an elevation in a few places. Originally, the difference in height between the Domdüne and the river bank of the Balge arm of the Weser , where Bremen's first port was located, was nine meters. The difference in level between Obernstrasse and Langenstrasse, between Ostertorstrasse and Schnoorviertel , in Arbergen the hill with the church, in Mahndorf the mill "mountain" is still striking .

literature

  • Bremer Archäologische Blätter, supplement 2/2000 for the exhibition of the same name in the Focke Museum: “Settlers, Mercenaries and Pirates”, Chauken and Saxony in the Bremen area, © Der Landesarchäologe Bremen, ISSN  0068-0907 .
  • Bremer Archäologische Blätter, Supplement 3/2004 for the exhibition of the same name in the Focke Museum: "Found Past", Archeology of the Middle Ages in Bremen, © Der Landesarchäologe Bremen, ISBN 3-7749-3233-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas L. Zotz, Lutz Fenske: Die Deutschen Königspfalzen: Repertorium der Pfalzen, Königshöfe and other whereabouts of the kings in the German empire of the Middle Ages . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 4 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000, ISBN 978-3-525-36513-7 , pp. 194 .

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