Kietzwerder
| Kietzwerder | ||
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| Waters | Lieps | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 27 '15 " N , 13 ° 8' 44.4" E | |
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| length | 54 m | |
| width | 32 m | |
| surface | 0.13 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Kietzwerder is an island in the Lieps , a lake in the urban area of Neubrandenburg in the Mecklenburg Lake District . The island is located in the western part of the lake, about 250 meters east of Prillwitz . Kietzwerder is uninhabited and belongs to the Nonnenhof nature reserve .
The Kietzwerder was originally around 1900 m². During archaeological excavations, ceramic remains from pre-Slavic times were found, but they could not be dated with certainty. Further finds point to a settlement of the island since the 7th or 8th century, when a Slavic settlement chamber with the Bacherswall as the center developed in the southern part of the Tollensesee and on and in the Lieps . In the 11th and 12th centuries there was a craftsmen's settlement ( Kietz ) on the Kietzwerder , which belonged to the Yugoslav center on the Hanfwerder . The island was connected to the mainland near Prillwitz and the southern end of the Nonnenhof peninsula by wooden bridges and probably exercised a control function over access to the settlement center. The craftsmen who settled on the Kietzwerder and the Fischerinsel formed the economic basis of this center with their products in addition to the agriculture of the surrounding villages and carried out long-distance trade.
With the emergence of an early German castle complex near Prillwitz in the first half of the thirteenth century, the Kietzwerder was converted into a service settlement for this castle and separated from the Slavic settlement complex. In the second half of the 13th century, due to the damming of the Tollense on the Oberbach for the operation of the Vierrademühle , the water level of Tollensesee and Lieps rose by about 0.8 meters. Large parts of the Kietzwerder were flooded, so that the settlement had to be abandoned.
For the first time in 1968, Slavic and early German pottery finds were recovered from Kietzwerder by a volunteer ground monument conservator. In 1974 and 1975, archaeological investigations were carried out on the Kietzwerder and the other islands in Lieps and Tollensesee, aided by water levels 40 cm below normal. At that time the Kietzwerder had an area of about 432 m² and protruded up to 50 cm above the water surface. Most of the finds came from the shallow water area around the island.
In the last three decades of the 20th century, the island almost completely went under due to extreme stocking with cormorants . Since then, only a few remains of the magnificent old trees have survived. After the vegetation died out, the Kietzwerder was eroded to an area of 40 m² by ice drifts and waves. In the years 1996 and 1997 the island was redeveloped by flushing and backfilling and in doing so was enlarged again significantly.
literature
- Volker Schmidt : Investigations on the Slavic island settlements in the Lieps and Tollense Lake. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook. 1976, ISSN 0067-9461 , pp. 169-223.
- Volker Schmidt: Rethra - Lieps, at the southern end of the Tollensesees. In: Studia Mythologica Slavica. 2, 1999, ISSN 1408-6271 , pp. 33-46, ( digital version (PDF; 1.03 MB) ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst Ruthenberg: On the history of the area. (No longer available online.) In: Nonnenhof nature reserve in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Fördergemeinschaft Naturschutzgebiet Nonnenhof eV, archived from the original on March 7, 2016 ; Retrieved November 4, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
