Lamb pond

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Location of Lämmchenteich and Lämmchenriede in historical maps, transferred to the current city map of Braunschweig

The lamb pond was probably a three-hectare pond in the area of ​​the Braunschweig district of Bebelhof . It was filled in in the 1920s for the newly created railway workers' settlement of the same name and the railway lines built over it. According to the relevant scientific opinion, its name has nothing to do with the lamb , but can be traced back to the nearby desert of Limbeck . It was traversed by the Lämmchenriede, which flowed into the Oker at Eisenbüttel .

Location and size of the lamb pond

Site of the former Lämmchenteich on the fortified embankment of the former marshalling yard on Borsigstrasse, on the right Schwartzkopffstrasse (2017).
The pond around 1835 with the neighboring corridors (map by Johann Karl Mare )

The pond can be clearly localized on the historical maps and lay between today's Schwartzkopffstrasse and Rischkampweg, stretched out in a south-east-north-west direction. Its extent can be estimated using the survey map from the 18th century to be around 400 meters long and 70 meters wide, i.e. almost three hectares. On the map series from 1899 its shape is segmental, the length is estimated to be only half.

In some maps it has a division that separates the northern third from the rest.

The pond was in the depression between the western Zuckerberg and the eastern Lindenberg , after which the Lindenbergsiedlung is named. It received a tributary from the east from the slopes of the Lindenberg, which was already documented on older maps. In the map from 1899, this inflow bends north to today's main train station and the Ostbahnhof that was already in existence at the time. This map shows another tributary from the Zuckerberg, which runs along today's Kruppstrasse.

In today's terrain, the southern part of the pond can be located in the lowland west of Schwartzkopffstrasse, the northern part is completely covered by the embankments for the marshalling yard.

Lammchenriede

Excerpt from Ludwig Winter's site plan south of what will later be the main train station

The names of brooks are rarely given on the historical maps, the name "Lämmchenriede" (with double m) has been handed down on Ludwig Winter's site plan for a street parallel to the course of the brook in the area of ​​today's marshalling yard. It is not known whether the Lindenberg tributary has already been given this name. However, it can be assumed that the course between Lämmchenteich and Eisenbüttel was named this way in earlier times. The parallel Riedestrasse is certainly named after the brook.

Limbeck desert and origin of the name

In the area of ​​the lamb pond, a desert has been handed down, the exact location of which has not yet been clarified. It is only known that the Feldmark later became the property of the Aegidia Monastery, which set up a Wolfshagen farm.

In the ordination of the Magni Church from 1031 the name is Limbeki , later in 1179 Limbeke and 1220 Villa Lenbeke . The name on the map from the 18th century is Limbeck . Otherwise, among other things, the field names up dem Limbeken veldhe (1321) and in Lemkenvelde (1674) as well as the Der Lämchen Camp and Am Lämchen-Teiche recorded on the map - each with a simple m. From Limbeki became Lämchen , wherein flower , executes that the name part -beki the old Saxon word for Bach and as a generic name -beek or -beke often encountered, and also in this region is (z. B. reciprocal Beeke ). For the initial syllable Lim- there is on the one hand the interpretation of lim- for slippery soil. On the other hand, it is possible that the syllable originated from a shortening of the word lintberges- . The latter would mean as lintbergesbeki Lindenbergsbach and indicate its place of origin.

A similar origin of the name is also assumed for Limbecker Platz in Essen.

Obviously, at the transition from Limbeck to Lämmchen, the word meaning of -beke was lost and the generic name -riede was added to the stream . According to Blume, this would also be typical of the region, but here it certainly leads to the idea of ​​a “ bucolic, idyllic spring scene ...: a vineyard where innocent lambs graze on the banks”.

Street names

In the old course of the Lämmchenriede between Alter Salzdahlumer Straße (today Böcklerstraße) and Wolfenbütteler Straße there is Riedestraße, on the south side of which a water course was still mapped in 1899. The street of the same name leading to the Lämmchenteich in the local plan is now called Limbeker Straße and is reminiscent of the former desert. The name Lämmchenteich, however, no longer exists.

literature

Web links

Commons : Lämmchenteich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Historical Commission for Lower Saxony: Map of the State of Braunschweig in the 18th century, sheet 3729 Braunschweig , Wolfenbüttel, 2nd edition 1967.
  2. ^ City of Braunschweig: Braunschweig city map with suburbs from 1899 , Braunschweig 1899.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Meibeyer : Wüstungen . In: With the working group History of the Braunschweigische Landschaft: Brage bei der Wieden, Wolfgang Meibeyer, Niels Petersen (Eds.): Regional map for the history and regional studies sheets Braunschweig and Salzgitter . Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen, Hannover 2015, ISBN 978-3-941177-30-7 , p.  54 .
  4. ^ Manfred RW Garzmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf, Norman-Mathias Pingel (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon - supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, p. 85, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 .
  5. ↑ Herbert Blume : Oker, Schunter, Wabe , in: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte, Vol. 86, Braunschweig 2005, pp. 29, 33.

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 42 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 37 ″  E