Herzog-Erich-Weg

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Herzog-Erich-Weg or Herzog-Erich-Ring is now the name of a street or path in the south of the city of Cloppenburg and the municipality of Emstek and in the north of the municipality of Cappeln in the Lower Saxony district of Cloppenburg . The path is probably named after Duke Erich II of Braunschweig-Calenberg-Göttingen (1528–1584). Another historical name of the route is Ossenträde ( ox path ).

location

The Herzog-Erich-Weg (now called Herzog-Erich-Ring in its westernmost section ) runs along the southern edge of the Cloppenburger Geest . It begins today on the federal road 213 near Stapelfeld and runs largely on the route of an old road in an easterly direction south of the town centers of Cloppenburg and Emstek and in the far north of the municipality of Cappeln. To the north of Schneiderkrug, east of the border with the Vechta district, there is a continuation of the road called Herzog-Erich-Weg up to the district boundary , but under a different name.

Herzog-Erich-Weg, Reuterweg and Folkweg

Go court on the Desum

The today Herzog-Erich ring and Herzog-Erich-way said compound is up to A 1 part of a West-East old route from the Netherlands over medium Ems and the mean Weser to the Luneburg Heath , already the Roman general Germanicus is said to have used and which was called " Kriegerpad " west of Cloppenburg and " Reuterweg " and " Folkweg " east of it . The term “Folkweg” is not only used as a proper name for the section of the long-distance route between the Hunte and the Weser, but also as a generic name for the entire long-distance route. Occasionally, the Herzog-Erich-Weg is also counted towards Reuterweg.

One problem, however, is that the easternmost section of today's Herzog-Erich-Weg route does not lead to Reuterweg in the Visbeck district of Hagstedt, but to the district of Halter. The reason for this discrepancy is that large parts of the Altstrasse had already completely disappeared in the landscape in the 19th century, so that on a map published by Friedrich von Alten in 1888, one southeast of the Emsteker town center between Herzog-Erich-Weg and Reuterweg There is a gap in the presentation. The connection is said to have been made via the Hohen Weg, which joins today's road between Emstek and Visbek just east of the district border.

There is another gap in the map of Altens at the eastern end of the Reuterweg in Wöstendöllen. Some historians believe that the route led to the Huntebrücke near Bühren . In the opinion of Bernd Ulrich Hucker and other historians, however, the Reuterweg ran towards the "Golden Bridge" near Goldenstedt . As early as 1840, Carl Heinrich Nieberding was of the opinion that the Hunte crossing at Bühren had served the purpose of picking up traffic from the direction of Oldenburg , which had left the Huntetal in an easterly direction.

history

Quatmannsburg near Elsten

The Folkweg is said to have been used as a trade and military route as early as the Bronze Age . In the Middle Ages, the central court of justice for the Saxon Lerigau , the Gogericht on the Desum , was laid out directly on the section known today as Herzog-Erich-Weg . Presumably to protect the remote path was at Elsten the Quatmannsburg created. The path probably got its name after 1563. In that year, Duke Erich II of Braunschweig-Calenberg-Göttingen announced a feud with the Bishop of Münster and marched into the monastery of Münster with thousands of soldiers .

It is unclear to what extent the Guelph Duke Erich used what was later popularly known as the Herzog-Erich-Weg for his troop movements. This is supported by the fact that the route into the Emsland along the southern edge of the Ems-Hunte-Geest has proven itself over centuries and Duke Erich also visited Lingen on his forays . Ludwig Niemann reports that “the residents of the Vechta office, especially in the area of ​​Goldenstedt”, suffered particularly from the Soldateska, which consisted of 9,000 men on foot and 500 horsemen. The naming shows that the Duke's attack caused lasting horror in the population of Niederstift Münster .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ O. Hagena: The Herzog-Erichsweg (with a map) . In: Yearbook for the history of the Duchy of Oldenburg . Volume 11, 1902, pp. 97f.
  2. ^ Ernst Dünzelmann: The Roman road network in Germany . Yearbooks for Classical Philology . 1894, p. 135
  3. ^ Hermann Hartmann: New finds of Roman coins in the Osnabrück . In: Anzeiger der Kunde for German prehistory . Vol. 20, 1873, pp. 148f.
  4. ↑ O. Hagena: The Herzog-Erichsweg (with a map) . In: Yearbook for the history of the Duchy of Oldenburg . Volume 11, 1902, p. 95
  5. ↑ O. Hagena: The Herzog-Erichsweg (with a map) . In: Yearbook for the history of the Duchy of Oldenburg . Volume 11, 1902, p. 95
  6. ↑ z. B. Theodor Mommsen : The location of the Varus battle . 1885 (reprint Bremen 2012), p. 58
  7. ↑ Lars Chowanietz: Part of the riddle hidden in the forest floor . In: Kreiszeitung . March 14, 2014
  8. ^ Carl Heinrich Nieberding: History of the former Niederstift Munster and the adjacent counties . Vechta 1840, p. 195
  9. ^ Samtgemeinde Grafschaft Hoya - Municipality Schweringen: Village renewal planning for the localities Schweringen, Holtrup and Eiße . May 2009, p. 16
  10. ↑ Ludwig Niemann: Section “Improvement of Vechta Castle and Duke Erich's Incursion into the Münster Abbey” . In: ders .: The Oldenburg Münsterland in its historical development. Contribution to the promotion of local history, Vol. 2. Oldenburg. Schulzesche Hof bookstore and Hof book printing. 1891. p. 26

Coordinates: 52 ° 49 ′ 22.4 "  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 13.7"  E