Deister-Süntel Valley

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Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '  N , 9 ° 18'  E

Map: Lower Saxony
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Deister-Süntel Valley

The Deister-Süntel Valley is located in the northeast of the Weser Uplands in Lower Saxony between the Bückeberg Süntel and Deister mountain ranges in the districts of Schaumburg and Hameln-Pyrmont .

geography

Contrary to what might be expected from a look at the map, the Deister-Süntel valley extends beyond the Süntel area to the north into the Rodenberger Mulde east of the Bückeberg and Auetal and south to the Hachmühler basin with the Kleiner Deister in the east and thus reaches a length of around 25 km.

Two rivers arise on the Süntel on the watershed of the valley north of Bad Münder . The Hamel has its source in Hamelspringe and flows south into the Weser . The Rodenberger Aue rises in Bakede and flows north into the Westaue , which in turn flows into the Leine . They are fed by around 20 streams from Deister and Süntel.

geology

Hülsede

The Deister-Süntel valley was created in the Cretaceous period when Deister and Süntel were arched into saddles. In the process, deep layers from the Jurassic period came to the surface. The Weser crossed to Elster glacial the valley approximately along the current flow runs of Hamel and Sedemünder millstream towards Deisterpforte . It was only dammed up by the ice masses and looked for a new route to the North Sea at Porta Westfalica .
Deposits of the Zechstein Sea from the Jura period and later the Weser as well as the debris from the Ice Ages and the petrified vegetation of the Cretaceous period left numerous mineral resources in the Deister-Süntel Valley. Today you can find Wealden sandstone of the best quality with fossilized marine animals and coal seams. Gypsum, rock salt, gravel and sand are just as available as brine and sulfur springs and ice age boulders . The wet to swampy landscape well into the 19th century is covered with fertile loess soil .

Two geological strata of the "White Jura" or " Malm " bear names of localities: the "Münder Mergel " and the "Eimbeckhäuser Plattenkalk ".

Flora and fauna

Süntelbuche in Lauenau

Deister, Bückeberg and Süntel are mostly overgrown with red beech forests, interspersed with oaks and spruces. In some places there are still wild occurrences of rare orchids. The holly or pod still grows abundantly here. She gave the place Hülsede its name.

The Süntelbuchen represent a botanical specialty of this region . In the Deister-Süntel-Tal there are still some old specimens of the rare trees to be found, in the Süntel near Hülsede, in the Deister near Feggendorf and Köllnischfeld , in Lauenau , Beber , Luttringhausen and Bad Münder. The last existing Süntel beech forest was cleared near Hülsede in 1843.

The amphibians, which were common in the once swampy lowlands, are still present in residual deposits. For their protection, as well as for the protection of griffins and songbirds, a lot has been done by creating new ponds, buying green areas and planting hedgerows to network biotopes.

Places in the valley

In the valley are the cities of Bad Münder and Rodenberg as well as the area Lauenau . Other places are Algesdorf, Old Hagen I , Altenhagen II , Apelern , Bakede , Beber , Böbber , Egestorf , Eimbeckhausen , Feggendorf , Flegessen , United Hegesdorf , Hachmühlen , Hamelspringe , Hasperde , Hemschehausen, Hülsede , Klein Süntel , Klein Hegesdorf , Luttringhausen , Lyhren , Meinsen , Messenkamp , Nettelrede , Nienstedt , Pohle , Reinsdorf , Rohrsen , Schmarrie , Sedemünder , Soldorf and Waltershagen.

traffic

In the north the valley is bordered by the federal highway 65 and in the south it goes a little beyond the federal highway 217 . The federal road 442 runs in a north-south direction along the valley.

economy

Windmill in Rodenberg

Numerous small and medium-sized businesses from various trades are located in the Deister-Süntel Valley. The once dominant wood industry has declined sharply.

Spa guests from Bad Nenndorf and Bad Münder and tourists in the Weserbergland Schaumburg-Hameln nature park make tourism an important industry.

Large parts of the valley are used for agriculture. Wheat, barley, oats, rapeseed and sugar beet are grown. There are many lush green meadows available for livestock farming, and nature conservation is also not neglected. Numerous streams, ponds, hedges and groups of trees structure the landscape. Many cycling and hiking trails have been created for tourists in the valley and the adjacent mountains.

history

The Deister-Süntel valley has been inhabited for around 5000 years. There are still numerous barrows from the Bronze Age in Deister and Süntel .

At the turn of the times, the Cherusci settled in the valley. After the Chatten and Chauken , the Saxons finally came in the 4th century . On a high plateau in Süntel, the Dachtelfeld , there were 782 during the Saxon Wars to the Battle of the Süntel between Saxon rebels and an army of Frankish occupying power, in which the Franks were subject to heavy losses.

Munchausen Castle in Apelern

In the centuries that followed, the fertile soil, abundance of water, mineral resources and, last but not least, the large amount of wood in the forests promoted economic development and brought a certain degree of prosperity to the region. The Thirty Years' War , however, brought great devastation and other wars, from the Hildesheim collegiate feud to the Second World War , wrecked many things.

First of all, agriculture determined the valley. With the water of Roden Berger Aue were forges and water mills operated. Gradually, the natural resources were also used. It emerged salt mines , brick kilns and quarries. In the valley there are still several buildings of the Weser Renaissance , which were built from local sandstone , Deistersandstein and Süntelsandstein .

Coal was already being mined in the Deister near Feggendorf (1831–1952) and in the Süntel near Bad Münder (1810–1895) in the 19th century.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Deister-Süntel-Tal was mainly used to manufacture chairs and furniture: Many wood-processing companies with the abundant wood around made the Deister-Süntel-Tal the center of furniture manufacturing in Lower Saxony. But the expansion of the pool sector and the glass industry also made progress.

In 1905 the Süntelbahn was opened, a railway line that ran lengthways through the valley. It connected the Hanover – Minden and Hanover – Hameln lines . Bad Nenndorf, Rodenberg, Lauenau, Messenkamp, ​​Eimbeckhausen, Egestorf / Bakede, Hamelspringe and Bad Münder got stations on this route. In 1968 passenger traffic was stopped again and in 1988 the last freight trains ran. The tracks were dismantled and most of the route became a cycling and hiking trail.

Increasing automation, competitive pressure from globalization and the general economic recession have recently led to a collapse in the long positive development and the loss of many jobs. The municipalities endeavor to attract new businesses and to promote tourism. The numerous new development areas in the valley testify to the high quality of living in the region.

Attractions

The "Steinhof" in Bad Münder

literature

  • Udo Mierau: Out and about in the Deister-Süntel valley. Fürsten Mirski-Verlag - Udo Mierau, Springe 2000. ISBN 3-00-006589-X
  • Matthias Biester, Klaus Vohn-Fortagne: Chairs and more. The Deister-Süntel-Tal, the cradle of the North German chair industry , with contributions by Heyno Garbe and Heinrich Lewinski, publication for the exhibition Der Stuhlbau im Sünteltal in 2000 in Bad Münder, ed. from Heimatbund Lower Saxony , local group Bad Münder, in the series of publications of the Museum Bad Münder , ISBN 3-00-006845-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Matthias Biester, Klaus Vohn-Fortagne: Chairs and more ... (see literature)