Copper strand

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Copper strand
Map around 1770 (edited)

Map around 1770 (edited)

Data
location Hildesheim , Lower Saxony
River system Weser
Drain over Innerste  → Leine  → Aller  → Weser  → North Sea
origin Confluence of the Trillkebach and Blänkebach in Moritzberg
52 ° 8 ′ 51 ″  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 57 ″  E
muzzle between Himmelsthür and Steuerwald in the innermost coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 12 ″  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 23 ″  E 52 ° 10 ′ 12 ″  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 23 ″  E

The Kupferstrang is a tributary of the Innerste in Hildesheim . Originally it was an arm of the Innerste created by the splitting of the river, which became the northern fortification ditch of the dam city ​​in 1311 and enclosed the city of Hildesheim together with Innerste, Trillkebach and Blänkebach.

Different courses of the water body have been handed down from the Middle Ages, as the entire area belonged to the floodplain of the innermost, whereby the position of the side arms of the river differed significantly over time. The position of the copper strand has also been artificially corrected several times. On the one hand a course is described in a wide arc to the southwest, then turning to the north under the Moritzberg; on the other hand, branching further downstream from the Innerste in a relatively straight west line tapering towards the Moritzberg to the north turn. (see map)

The copper strand got its name from a copper mill driven by its water . Such a system on the Trillke was documented as early as 1451. A short-lived, privately operated copper mill was built directly on the copper strand with the permission of Hildesheim Bishop Henning von Haus in 1480, which was destroyed again in 1482 by episcopal troops in the course of a dispute between the city of Hildesheim and its Bishop Berthold II von Landsberg .

The water power of the copper strand was used earlier: The Moritzberg mountain mill was probably built on it as early as the 11th century, and in 1500 it became the property of the city of Hildesheim. From 1598 on, the episcopal mint stood nearby , but it was destroyed in 1632 during the Thirty Years War . The mountain mill was burned down in 1633 and could not be put back into operation until 1651. They existed until 1857. They were replaced sequentially for several industrial companies who used the Kupferstrang water: a flax factory , a jute spinning mill and in 1876 a rubber - or rubber factory .

The section running in an east-west direction south of the Michelsenschule was only filled in at the end of the 1920s. Today's street Am Kupferstrange got its name in 1938.

literature

  • Johannes Heinrich Gebauer : History of the city of Hildesheim. Volume I, Lax, Hildesheim / Leipzig 1922 (unchanged reprint)
  • Anton J. Knott: Street, paths, squares and alleys in Hildesheim. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1984, ISBN 3-8067-8082-X
  • Working group Moritzberg u. a. (Ed.): Abbey Freedom and Mountain Village. 883 years of Moritzberg history . Hildesheim: Lax 1989, pp. 136-141 ISBN 3-7848-5023-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Meier-Hilbert: Geographical structures. The natural potential . In: Hildesheim. City and space between the Börde and the mountains . Hildesheim 2001, p. 7–41, here: p. 21 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ); Knott, p. 16 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nibis.de
  2. ↑ cf. Thomas Küntzel: The dam city of Hildesheim: ideal and reality of a high medieval city foundation . In: Concilium Medii Aevi 10 (2007), pp. 1-32, pp. 13f. ( PDF )
  3. ↑ Document book of the city of Hildesheim . Vol. 7. Hildesheim 1899, No. 8
  4. ↑ Gebauer, p. 371 (fn. 96): "not urban"
  5. ↑ a b Knott, p. 16
  6. ↑ Gebauer, p. 132
  7. ↑ Moritzberg working group, p. 93ff .; 98ff .; P. 176ff.