Dittwarer Weiher
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Dittwarer Weiher in the local dialect: Wäid / Wejd / Weed |
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| The Dittwarer Weiher with a covered spring in the background and a drain in the foreground (2017) | ||
| Geographical location | Main-Tauber-Kreis , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany | |
| Tributaries | own source | |
| Drain | Weiherbach → Muckbach → Brehmbach → Tauber → Main → Rhine | |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 35 '19 " N , 9 ° 38' 16" E | |
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particularities |
own, water-rich spring |
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The Dittwarer Weiher (also local pond called) is a small lake with its own source in Dittwar , a district of Tauberbischofsheim in Main-Tauber-Kreis . In the local dialect the pond is also called "Wäid / Wejd / Weed ". Colloquially, this stands for a drinking trough or a wide watering hole.
geography
The pond is located near the Heckfelder Straße on the eastern edge of Dittwar and is fed from a spring on the edge of the pool. The Weiherbach flows away from it and flows into the Muckbach after less than 0.2 km from the left .
use
Previous use
Children's swimming pool
According to an older villager, the pond provided the Muckbach with most of its water before the Second World War and was a swimming pool for the Dittwar children.
Dittwarer water supply
When the construction of an elevated tank in the "Lämmerberg" district was imminent, Maninger dealt with the history of water in Dittwar in the local chronicle of 1968. About the importance of the pond for the water supply of the place he explained:
“Before the first common and general pipe network was laid, the population was mainly supplied by wells and the local pond. Just a few decades ago there were a large number of intact wells in the village; so z. B. at the Häfner, Kornel Zegowitz, Vinzenz Stephan (at the Brunnenstaffel), Alois Both, Fabian Lotter, Wöppel, Fridolin Honickel, Emil Honickel and Schüßler estates. Even after the Second World War, on hot summer days, many farmers could still be seen running to the pond with their wooden mugs, who took the refreshing water with them to the fields. "
According to Maninger, the pipelines for the Dittwar water supply from 1968 were laid in 1899. When asked from which source one wanted to get the drinking water in the future, the choice between on the one hand the source at the local pond ("Wäid") and on the other hand the one at the Pfaffenbrunn was so difficult that one asked an expert from Karlsruhe. The responsible local police officer allegedly took water samples from both sources, which were then examined in the laboratory. Although, according to Maninger, he actually filled both sample bottles with "Wäid water", the official findings rated the supposed Pfaffenbrunn water more favorably than that of the spring at the local pond, whose water is unhealthy. At the time the village chronicle was published, the town's water supply was therefore only using the source at Pfaffenbrunn. Studies from the 1950s also only allowed the consumption of pond water when it was boiled. With regard to the filling of the pond source, Maninger notes:
"However, the water strength of this spring is so great that the Bischofsheim fire brigade could not exhaust it in the event of a fire, even though they intended it to."
Maninger said as early as 1968 that the Dittwar water supply would in the future be connected to the community supply Tauberbischofsheim-Dittigheim, because drilling its own in the district would be too expensive for the community in the long term, because no public subsidy could be expected due to the available community sources. Maninger's foresight came true almost 50 years later when Dittwar was affiliated with the water supply association Mittlere Tauber, funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg, based in the Taubertal waterworks near Dittigheim . By 2019, the water from 26 tapping points, 22 wells and 4 springs from three cities and three municipalities is to be brought together centrally.
Todays use
Today the pond is mainly used for local recreation and fish farming. A sign forbids feeding the fish there.
See also
literature
- Topographical map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North, as single sheet No. 6323 Tauberbischofsheim West and No. 6324 Tauberbischofsheim East
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ Maninger (see below) describes the village pond in 1968 as "Wäid"; Walz (1983) as "Wejd / Weed".
- ↑ a b c d e Heimat- und Kulturverein Dittwar e. V .: Manfred Maninger - Chronicle of the community of Dittwar, 1968 . Online at www.hkvdittwar.de. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
- ↑ Dittwarer Mundart - language of the homeland , by Rudolf Walz, published in: 300 Jahre Kreuzkapelle , Lauda, StieberDruck 1983, p. 166.
- ^ According to verbal information from August Hammerich (born 1923), Dittwar, in January 2018.
- ↑ Main-Post: From 2017 drinking water from Dittigheim . November 2, 2016. www.mainpost.de. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
- ↑ City of Tauberbischofsheim: Wasser Zweckverband goes online ( memento of the original from February 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at www.tauberbischofsheim.de. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
