Fething
As Fething ( North Frisian : di / younges Feeding ) means a special water reservoir on the islets and mounds in the marshes of the German and Dutch North Sea coast. Fethinge are rainwater collecting basins, which were usually used as cattle trough and give the impression of a normal pond . Most of them were created at the highest point, in the middle of the Hallig or Terft.
Since the surface water of the meadows and thus possibly also manure could get into Fethinge , they were usually not suitable as reservoirs for drinking water. For this purpose, a separate cistern , the so-called Sood , was created, in which the rainwater from the roofs could collect.
Drinking water was a precious commodity on the Halligen and on the marshes. Due to the island location and the small size of a Hallig, even the groundwater consists of salt water. The Fethinge only lost its task in the middle of the 20th century when the water supply was gradually expanded. So has Hooge only since 29 July 1968 a water connection, Gröde since 1976th
Rainwater reservoirs of this type were also built on the terps in other regions of the North Sea coast. You can still find such ponds in the terp villages of Ziallerns near Tettens in Wangerland and Rysum in Krummhörn . Before 1980 there was still a Fething in Wichtens near Tettens in Wangerland. In the meantime, the remaining fethings have been placed under monument protection.
literature
Oliver Parodi: Hydraulic engineering - a collage . GRIN, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-638-23220-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- Schematic structure of the water supply on the terps ( memento of October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Water supply in the North Frisian marshland
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frasch uurdebök, Neumünster 2002, page 64