Flemish street

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The Flemish Road was a trade route connecting Lübeck and Jutland with Flanders . The Hanseatic cities of Lübeck , Hamburg , Bremen , Haselünne , Deventer , Arnheim and Nijmegen as well as the cities of Antwerp and Bruges formed stations on the Flemish Road. Goods and goods from Scandinavia and the Hanseatic cities found their way to Paris via the Flemish Road. However, the land route between the port cities was seen as a makeshift solution for several products compared to transport by ship. The overland transport of grain and wood was too expensive to be able to sell the goods afterwards at affordable prices, and tar and ashes were spoiled by the overland transport.

course

Coming from the Netherlands , the Flemish Road followed today's federal road 403 to Nordhorn and then federal road 213 via Lingen (Ems) , Haselünne , Herzlake , Wildeshausen to Bremen and from there to Lübeck . This road was of great importance for long-distance trade for Bremen, as almost all western land traffic crossed the Weser at Ochtum by ferry.

history

The Flemish Road is said to have existed around the year 800. The Saxon Duke Widukind is said to have founded Wildeshausen exactly at the point where it crossed the Hunte . Up until the High Middle Ages, the Flemish Road was not a road of the type that the Romans could build, but one of the "tracks that had been traveled and walked for thousands of years and always followed the same direction Geest and marshland , along the forest and through the heather in the paths marked out by nature and crossed rivers, moors and the sea ​​bellows of the coast in places given by the nature of the soil . "

Schlutter Castle, which was destroyed in the Stedinger War in 1234, was replaced shortly afterwards by Delmenhorst Castle to protect the Flemish Road. The Fernweg in Delmenhorst was extended to the street from the 14th century. Since then it has run through the town center (now known as Lange Straße). In Delmenhorst, the Frisian Heerweg branched off from the Flemish Road in the direction of Oldenburg , East Frisia and Groningen . Cloppenburg, where the Herzog-Erich-Weg , part of a Bronze Age long-distance route between the middle Ems and the middle Weser along the southern edge of the Ems-Hunte-Geest, branches off from the Flemish Road, owes its existence to this road.

Before 1800 the volume of traffic on the Flemish Road in Wildeshausen averaged seven four-horse wagons a day.

Flemish Street (name in cities)

Flemish Street is the name of a street in the city center of Kiel . Their name can probably be explained by the fact that Flemings coming from the west drove up the Eider to Flemhude . They brought their goods overland to the fjord in order to then ship them over the Baltic Sea to Scandinavia . Other authors think that it was named after a Fläminger trading company .

On the other hand, part of the long long-distance route (the road in Kiel only shortens the sea route around Jutland) is the Flemish Road in Huchting , a district of Bremen. The Flemish Road , which crosses the center of Lastrup , is also on the route of the former long-distance route.

In Essen / Oldenburg there is also a Flemish Street . However, this horseshoe-shaped side road is ten kilometers south-east of the federal highway 213 and has an atypical alignment (old roads in the lowlands usually run with little bends and purposefully in a certain direction).

literature

  • The Flemish Street. Wandering trade from the Netherlands and Westphalia and Russia , edited by Dexia Bank et al., Brussels 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Berthe: Hamburg trade and its destinations
  2. ↑ Siglinde Killisch (Hrsg.): Oldenburg: Cultural History of a Historical Landscape (=  catalogs of the Landesmuseum Oldenburg . Volume 8 ). Isensee, Oldenburg 1998, ISBN 3-89598-533-3 , p. 75, 77, 125 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed July 19, 2020]).
  3. ↑ District of Oldenburg: History ( Memento of the original from February 2, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oldenburg-kreis.de
  4. ↑ Gerhard Kaldewei: "On the Road" - On the cultural history of travel in the northwest . In .: Oldenburg yearbook . Vol. 98, 1998. p. 5
  5. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: The diocese of Münster . Volume 7. Max Planck Institute for History (Ed.). 1999, p. 43
  6. ↑ Our Graft eV - Bürgerparkverein Delmenhorst: History of the Graft in fast motion
  7. ^ Albrecht Eckhardt: The emergence of the city of Cloppenburg . Lecture in the town hall of the city of Cloppenburg. May 21, 2010. p. 2
  8. ↑ Wildeshausen . GenWiki
  9. ^ Archives for history, statistics, children of the administration and state rights of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, Volume 1 , Niels Nikolaus Falck, Schwers'sche Buchhandlung, 1842