Horstsee (Stade)
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| The walled-up tunnel at Horstsee, which used to lead to the Horst share brickworks (March 2008) | ||
| Geographical location | Stade , Lower Saxony | |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 35 '39 " N , 9 ° 27' 42" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 6 m above sea level NHN | |
| surface | 3.75 ha | |
| Maximum depth | 9 m | |
| Middle deep | 4–5 m | |
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particularities |
Former loam |
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The Horstsee is a former loam on the edge of the Hohentorsvorstadt of Stade in Lower Saxony.
description
The volume of the lake roughly corresponds to the total amount of water in the upper wing. The average depth in the western part is 4 to 5 meters. In the eastern part the lake is up to 9 meters deep. The surface is approximately 3.75 hectares. A 640 meter long hilly hiking trail leads around the lake. At the feeding station for ducks, the brick passage to the previously existing brickworks on the Am Horstsee construction area could be seen until 2010 . In the course of the renovation of Horststrasse, the access was filled in.
Emergence
In 1854 a brickworks was founded between the Schwinge and the Horst by the businessman Johann Hinrich Elfers and the blacksmith Johann Mars Peter Kübler. A connecting channel to the swing arm, which has now been filled in, enabled the bricks to be removed via the swing arm. The red clay for burning the bricks was taken from a huge hollow on the Horst, which was connected to the brickworks by a tunnel under Horststrasse. In 1872 the Actien-Ziegelei Horst was built, which in 1873 already produced 4.68 million bricks and employed 100 Lipper workers. In 1893 the company was taken over by the Brunsbütteler Land- und Ziegelei Gesellschaft in Hamburg . The company was expanded until 1905, after which the brickworks ran into more and more difficulties. In 1911 only 22 workers were employed.
The end of the brickworks came when a water vein was tapped in the loam hole in 1921 . Within one night the clay pit was flooded, so that neither the carts nor the rails that went with them could be recovered. The brickworks then ceased operations in the same year.
After the brickworks were demolished, the VfL Stade sports club took over the site in 1922 and built a sports field there. Today there is the new construction area Am Horstsee .
Picture gallery
See also
Web links
literature
- Jürgen Bohmbach : Stader Stadtlexikon . Stade 1994
- Jürgen Bohmbach (editor): Stade - From the beginnings of settlements to the present . Stade 1994