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View of the historical path between Ohrum and the Oderwald , which has been preserved as an overgrown ravine

Deitweg , also Deiweg , Dietweg or Dieweg , is a name for old streets , both as a generic name ("a" Deitweg) and as a proper name ("the" Deitweg in / at ...). Corresponding proper names are still handed down today as street names or field names in Westphalia , Ostfalen and southern Germany. Like the word “ German ”, the word group dei (t) / die (t) refers to the meaning “belonging to the people”. As a result, the very old route designation means “Leuteweg” or “Volksweg” in the sense of Volksfernweg. Not only common people, merchants or noble people used Deitwege or Folkwege , kings of the time also moved on them from Palatinate to Palatinate in order to carry out their government business there, because government seats in their current importance did not yet exist. In the literature, these paths are dated to the pre-Franconian period, i.e. before the 9th century.

Elsewhere, Dei (t) and Die (t) wege were referred to as Folkweg . The synonymy of both terms is clear from the example of a long-distance path that crosses the Aller in a north-south direction near Celle : it is known both under the name Dietweg and the name Folkweg .

Paths with the word component "Dei (t)"

Existing street and field names

In Ostfalen streets with the names Deiweg or Deitweg have been handed down, which preferably run in an east-west direction:

In the Meiningsen district of Soest , the street name Deiweg is still there, only a few kilometers from today's B1 and Soester Westernhellweg .

Historical Deitweg near Ohrum

North of the Harz Mountains , a long-distance path, documented as early as 747, crossed the Oker near Ohrum , where it became the scene of a war between Pippin the Short and later the baptism of Saxony by Charlemagne . He connected the former residence of Gandersheim with the monastery in Schöningen and the seat of the Ottonians in Magdeburg . Further stations were Königsdahlum , Ortshausen and the royal palace Werla near Goslar .

The path is mentioned in a document from Hildesheim Monastery from 1108 as publica et antiqua via between Pilsenbrück and Goslar. During construction work in the course of the Ohrum Schmiedeweg , the remains of a billet dam were exposed, the extension of which leads into the Oder forest through a ravine. To the east of the Oker, a piece of land west of Remlingen near Wöhrenberg is called "Hinter dem Deiwege", which is north of the Wolfenbüttel-Halberstadt military road that came from Ohrum.

Paths with the word component "Die (t)"

Southern Germany

The current street directories of the online map providers list the name Dietweg in the following German localities:

Alsace and Belgium

Other roads and dirt roads with the name Dietweg can be found in the Strasbourg area and the name Dieweg in Belgium.

Web links

  • Online map search query "Deiweg" at openstreetmap.org.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wilhelm Bornstedt : Chronicle of the pile village Rüningen: settlement geography, social, cultural and war history of a Brunswick village , Brunswick 1980, p. 229 ff.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Bornstedt : The old military and trade routes in the greater Braunschweig area: Hildesheim, Peine, Schunter, Königslutter, Helmstedt, Schöningen, Schöppenstedt, Grosses Bruch, Oderwald, Wolfenbüttel, Salzgitter and Braunschweig. Braunschweig 1969.
  3. ↑ Frank Rieckenberg: Waters in the Celle urban area before the city was founded - A historical consideration (Part 1) ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 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. . Cellesche Zeitung . 14th of June 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cellesche-zeitung.de
  4. ↑ Wilhelm Bornstedt : Chronicle of the pile village Rüningen: settlement geography, social, cultural and war history of a Brunswick village , Brunswick 1980, p. 237 ff.
  5. ↑ Elisabeth Reifenstein, ed. Municipality of Ohrum: Chronik Ohrum 747–1997. Wolfenbüttel 1997, p. 31 ff.
  6. ↑ GeoLife TK 25. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 19, 2015 ; accessed on March 4, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / navigator.geolife.de
  7. ↑ Online map, search query “Dietweg” at openstreetmap.org from November 30, 2014.