Folkweg

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Folkweg is a name for old streets , both as a generic name (“a” Folkweg) and as a proper name (“the” Folkweg in / near ...).

Genus of folk paths or Deitwege

Folk ways were also called Dei (t) - or Die (t) ways . Like the word “ German ”, the word group dei (t) / die (t) refers to the meaning “belonging to the people”. All variants of the name indicate that they are “people's paths” in the sense of people's long-distance paths, which everyone was allowed to use, but which primarily functioned as trade and military routes. The synonymy of the terms Folkweg and Dei (t) - or Die (t) weg is clear from the example of a section of the Via Romea that crosses the Aller in a north-south direction near Celle : It is both under the name Dietweg and known under the name Folkweg .

→ see also Via Romea # Other names for sections

Proper name of a connection between the Hunte and the Weser

As early as 1902, O. Hagena pointed out that a chain of repeatedly interrupted routes between the Ems near Lathen and Uelzen had previously formed a continuous trade and military route. Sections of this old road were given the names Kriegerpad , Blutweg , Ossenträde and Ochsenpfad (later called Herzog-Erich-Weg ), Reuterweg and Folcendung ( Folkweg ). The latter proper name was mainly used for the section between the Hunte and the Weser . W. O. Focke used the term for the entire section between the Ems and the Weser. The path runs west of the Hunte as far as possible near the border between the catchment area of ​​the Hase and the Leda . According to one of several theories, today's Marklohe , which is located at the former crossing of the Folkweg over the Weser near Nienburg, is the place of Marklo , where annual meetings of the Saxon Gau leaders were held before the victory of the Franks over the Saxons . The Folkweg is considered to be Bronze Age . Trade relations with Western and Eastern Europe are said to have existed on it about 4000 years ago. Allegedly, the Roman general Germanicus is said to have used this route with his troops.

Continuation of the folk route west of Twistringen

The question of whether the Folkweg crossed the Hunte at Bühren or at Goldenstedt is disputed. The Folkweg (viewed from the east) may have split up behind Twistringen , so that its southern section from Goldenstedt followed the southern edge of the Ems-Hunte-Geest, while the northern branch followed this river to Oldenburg after reaching the Hunte . The northern route is called "Folkweg" by Carl Heinrich Nieberding . Ernst Dünzelmann explains the different information about the place where the Hunte is crossed by the Folkweg by saying that the “Folcweg” formed the border between the dioceses of Bremen and Minden . Initially, it ran towards Goldenstedt from the east. Later "the border of the Bremen and Minnesian diocese ran a little further north". The recent border line led to the assumption that the Folkweg crossed the Hunte at Bühren and led from there to the Ems.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ O. Hagena: The Herzog-Erichsweg (with a map) . In: Yearbook for the history of the Duchy of Oldenburg . Volume 11, 1902, p. 95
  3. ↑ Elfriede Hornecker: On the way on old tracks. The change of folk between Weser and Hunte. 1st edition. Solivagus-Verlag, Kiel, ISBN 978-3-943025-58-3 .
  4. ↑ W. O. Focke: Die Wümme. A contribution to the natural history of local history ( 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. . In: Abhandlungen (Ed .: Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein zu Bremen). 1906, p. 320 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.forgottenbooks.com
  5. ^ Gustav Engel: Political History of Westphalia . Cologne 1969, p. 37
  6. ^ Municipality of Schweringen: village renewal planning for the localities of Schweringen, Holtrup and Eiße . May 18, 2009. p. 16
  7. ^ Hermann Hartmann: New finds of Roman coins in the Osnabrück . In: Anzeiger der Kunde for German prehistory . Vol. 20, 1873, pp. 148f.
  8. ↑ Theodor Mommsen: The locality of the Varus battle . Meeting reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences . Berlin. January 15, 1885. p. 28
  9. ↑ Peter Kratzmann: Historical hiking on the "Volkweg" . Northwest Newspaper . May 30, 2011
  10. ^ Carl Heinrich Nieberding: History of the former Niederstift Munster and the adjacent counties . Vechta 1840, p. 195
  11. ^ André Steuer: The Folkweg and other historical boundaries . District newspaper . 22. July 2013
  12. ^ Ernst Dünzelmann: The Roman road network in Northern Germany . In: Yearbooks for Classical Philology . 20. Supplement band. Leipzig 1894, p. 85