Dike roller
A dyke role was the listing of dyke cable owners who were obliged to provide maintenance . Dyke rollers are described in Bleckede as early as 1600 and were used to document praise and complaints about the dyke maintenance in the context of the dyke load . The dike roll would first be made on rolled parchment paper, later in paper form.
Dike scrolls contained the name of the debtor, City, cable number and length of the maintained dike route . Despite the change from the role to the paper file, the concept of the dike role (in Lower Saxony) persisted until 1963. Since the abolition of the cable industry, only contribution registers are kept.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Puffahrt: 100 years of Artlenburger Deichverband 1889–1989 . 1989, p. 112 .