Eckernworth
Coordinates: 52 ° 51 ′ 56 " N , 9 ° 34 ′ 11" E
The Eckernworth is the hilly and oldest urban forest of Walsrode in the Lower Saxony district of Heidekreis . It stretches between the old town of Walsrode and the village of Fulde (Stadt Walsrode), which belongs to the village of Fulde, 4 kilometers to the west, along the Fulde , a tributary of the Böhme .
Origin of name
The part of the name Worth is based on the old Saxon field name wurð , uurth "Hofstätte, Boden" (not related to New High German Werder , "river island" and with Wurt , Terp , "thrown hill"). Ulrich Scheuermann looks for the Middle Low German word word , Wurt the original meaning "bottom", "Basic" (especially the increased or been entertained), especially "farmstead" and "parcel of land" or "forest Mark". The part of the name Ecker is related to field and forest pasture (tree fruits of oak and beech) via an Indo-European root. In Middle Low German , the word ackeren stood for "acorn", "beech", "acorn mast". This sets the Eckernworth a name interpretation as increased convenient forest pasture near where earlier this special geological reasons Hutewaldes the beechnuts may have been that whereas in the surrounding forests rather acorn was possible.
Natural and cultural landscape aspects
The approximately 50 hectare Eckernworth is the beech-rich deciduous forest on the northern slope of the east-facing Fuldetal, which is about 35 m above sea level. NHN up 59. u m. NHN is enough. The lower part is a long, winding steep slope of up to 12 meters in height, at the foot of which several landscaped fish ponds fill the otherwise alder-covered floodplain of the Fulda valley. A very dense network of paths opens up especially the most attractive parts.
The steep slope is partly formed by clayey Neogene rocks that are around 30 million years old . These rocks are covered almost everywhere in the Lüneburg Heath by moraines and meltwater sands from Ice Age ice sheets and only come to the surface in very few places. One of them almost coincides with the built-up location of Walsrode. The steep banks along the Fulde in Eckernworth show in places a vegetation pattern that is rather untypical for the heather, which is due to the clays cut there, but also to the intensive design in the 19th century as a park-like urban forest in places.
It is assumed that the Eckernworth used to be Allmendewald . It was transferred to municipal ownership at the beginning of the 18th century and leased to citizens of Walsrode from 1756 to 1780 for pig fattening. In the years 1830 and 1889 the city bought additional areas and later reforested them. Points designed in the 19th century are the fountain of youth (a spring in boulders in the upper slope) and in the small Bohlenbachtal the swan pond with a fountain and a somewhat dilapidated small waterfall further above. The Eckernworth is in the conservation area Böhmetal , which was reported 1976th
Buildings and facilities in the Eckernworth
The following buildings are on the edges of the "front", eastern Eckernworth south of Oskar-Wolff-Straße:
- Eckernworth Stadium and other sports facilities
- Heidemuseum Rischmannshof , which was opened in 1912 as one of the first open-air museums in Germany
- "Waldgaststätte Eckernworth"
- Schützenhaus of the "Schützenkorps Walsrode von 1849 e. V. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Moriz Heyne (original from 1899): The German housing. From the oldest historical times to the 16th century , p. 12, reprint Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-84607-804-4
- ^ Ulrich Scheuermann : Field name research . Schriften zur Heimatpflege 9., Melle 1995, p. 156
- ^ Bibliographisches Institut (Ed .: Dudenredaktion): The dictionary of origin: Etymology of the German language (Duden: German language in 12 volumes, Volume 7), Berlin 2013 ISBN 978-3-411-04075-9
- ↑ Experience nature in Lower Saxony - Heidekreis ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2010 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.
- ^ NIBIS map server: Quaternary geological overview map of Lower Saxony 1: 500,000 - depth of the Quaternary base . State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG). Hanover 2009
- ↑ Kommunal Service Böhmetal: Stadtforst, property history , accessed on March 22, 2018
- ^ Website of the Waldgaststätte Eckernworth
- ^ Website of the Rifle Corps Walsrode from 1849 e. V. ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
