Osbek

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Road sign of the Osbek strait

Osbek ( Danish Osbæk ) is the name of a small stream and a former residential area in the northeast of the independent city of Flensburg . Osbek is also a district in the Mürwik district , which includes the Osbectal and the adjacent buildings. There is also a short spur road with this name.

geography

Location of the Osbek

The Osbek rises near the old village of Engelsby (Engelsby-Dorf or Alt-Engelsby) and then flows north. The mouth is piped shortly before its end, so that in the area where the Osbek flows into the Flensburg Fjord , no natural mouth can be seen. It flows piped into the water at the boat harbor of the Naval School Mürwik .

The landscape around the Osbek

Wildflower meadow in the Osbectal
One of the sledding slopes of the Osbektal in January 2015

The Osbektal is a glacifluvial valley that drains over the Osbek into the Flensburg Fjord . The area between Engelsby-Dorf and Osterallee is known as the Upper Osbektal and is characterized by its crooks and agricultural areas. The Middle Osbektal begins at Osterallee and ends near the Federal Motor Transport Authority on Fördestraße. The valley area is narrower and the slopes are steeper than in the Upper Osbectal. Most of the area is used for gardening and is not accessible to the public. The Lower Osbectal cannot be entered either, as it is part of the marine area .

Nowadays the Osbektal is surrounded by buildings. What was once a rural agricultural area has become an inner-city green corridor. Residential houses and other buildings were erected right up to the edge of the slope. The slopes have been partially transformed into gardens. Some damp areas have been drained to the point that they can be used for agriculture.

From the Osteralle to the south in the valley there are meadows and fields , hedgerows, damp lowlands with rushes and marsh marigolds and the course of the brook, on the banks of which trees grow. The valley area serves as a habitat for bird species, as well as frogs and other amphibians in large numbers. It has also been found that rare animal species such as stone marten , hares , water shrews and grass snakes also live here. From the point of view of nature conservation, it is one of the most valuable and most landscape-defining parts of Flensburg. The course of the stream and the damp area south of Osterallee are particularly interesting for nature conservation ; Part of the area is therefore also under legal protection. The Knicks and the ponds are also protected by law, they must not be destroyed.

The Osbectal has not been a pure natural landscape for centuries , but it has received its typical appearance from the fact that humans have used it. It is therefore referred to as the “historical cultural landscape ” . In the city of Flensburg there are other examples of this mixture of arable land, grassland and hedgerows, such as the Marienau. Without the agricultural use, the image of the Osbectal would change fundamentally within a few years. Bushes and trees would grow in fields, creating a forest. The valley is one of the landscape protection areas of Flensburg .

history

Emergence

Relief from the Osbeck-Hof or Osbek-Hof on the building of the Imperial Post in Mürwik

The formation of the Osbectal began towards the end of the last ice age , i.e. over 10,000 years ago, and continues to this day. The water made its way through an area that has the typical relief of fishing . The flowing Osbek then dug deeper and deeper into the ground over the course of thousands of years, which finally resulted in today's Kerbtal . Other well-known notch valleys in the city are the Mühlenstromtal, the Lachsbachtal, the Lautrupsbachtal, the Schwarzenbachtal and the Cäcilienschlucht . The height difference of around 20 meters between the valley floor and the slope edges emphasizes the shape of the valley. In contrast to all other streams in Flensburg, the Osbek flows mainly in a south-north direction and is therefore a specialty.

designation

The word part Os- comes from the Danish after Wolfgang Laur and should mean 'mouth'. The root word -bek , Danish -bæk , corresponds to the German Bach . The name Osbek would be interpreted as the “mouth of a stream”, which seems absurd as a name for an entire river. The determinative word Os- could rather indicate ox , but there is no definite etymology . The name of the brook, the Osbek , is feminine gender.

The name of the water body was subsequently carried over to the surrounding area and settlement, so that Osbek also became the place name (city district and street name).

colonization

Deer at the Osbektal on the edge of Engelsby village

The Osbectal was once far from the gates of the city of Flensburg. The stream was already partially straightened at that time, and the kinks were also largely as they still do today. The fields in between were used for agriculture.

Not far from the confluence of the stream in the Flensburg Fjord there used to be a katenstelle probably deposited by Twedter Holz , which in the 19th century owned such extensive land that it could be taxed as a full-fledged farm. The site was first mentioned in 1685. The brickworks located a little to the west of it, directly on the fjord, has been attested since 1734 . Osbek was under the administration of the Flensburg Office and after 1864 belonged to the rural community Twedter Holz in the now Prussian-German district of Flensburg .

The former "Osbek School" which today bears the name Ostseeschule Flensburg .

Anyone who stood on one of the side slopes 100 years ago had a wide view of the slightly hilly land around, in which the Osbectal represented a striking dividing line. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Osbek-Hof was roughly at the point between the Christ Church and the KBA. After the closure of the brickworks in 1900, the entire property was acquired by the tax authorities . Just south of the mouth of the Osbek emerged from 1903, the first buildings of the naval base Mürwik , north of it from 1907, the Naval Academy Mürwik . Hof Osbek, located inland, initially remained as a farm, but in 1939 the buildings that had been preserved until then were blown up during a military exercise. The Federal Motor Transport Authority is now located directly north of the former farm . In the lower Osbectal a school was built in 1929/30 according to plans by the architect Paul Ziegler . This "Mürwiker Schule" later bore the name "Osbekschule" for many decades, but was closed in 2009 due to a lack of students and the building and grounds were taken over by the Ostseeschule Flensburg . Previous road construction plans that would have destroyed the upper Osbectal have now been discarded. The natural space there is now considered secure.

literature

  • Wolfgang Laur : The place names in fishing , in: Yearbook of the home community for the fishing landscape 1968. V. a. P. 41.
  • Gerret Liebing Schlaber: Fra opland til bydele. Flensborgs bymark and de indlemmede landsbyer i photo and text approx. 1860-1930. - From the country to the district. Flensburg's Stadtfeld and the incorporated villages in pictures and words approx. 1860-1930. Flensburg 2009. pp. 140 f.

Web links

Commons : Osbek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City districts, published by the City of Flensburg ( Memento from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ WiF, Kerbtäler ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed on: May 31, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wir-in-flensburg.de
  3. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg !. Flensburg 2009, article: Osbek and Cäcilienschlucht
  4. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Osbek
  5. ↑ Gerret Liebing Schlaber: From the country to the district. Flensburg's Stadtfeld and the incorporated villages in pictures and words, approx. 1860-1930. Flensburg 2009, p. 145.
  6. ↑ In Low German referred -bek also a stream. Other waters of this type of name are Mühlenbek and Adelbybek .
  7. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Osbek
  8. ↑ In current Danish dictionaries the meaning of a mouth or something similar cannot be found. In today's Danish, Os means 'smoke, haze, smoke'. Rather, the word shows a similarity to the Low German Oss , which means ox ; see. also Oxbull . However, the name Osbek is traditionally not interpreted in Low German. (Cf. Johannes Sass : Der neue Sass - Low German Dictionary - Low German - High German, High German - Low German. 2nd edition, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2002 and: Wolfgang Lindow: Low German-High German Dictionary. 5th edition. 1998.)
  9. ↑ See Flensburger Tageblatt : Continuous rain in SH: Flensburg fights against the water , from: January 16, 2015; accessed on: May 3, 2016 and Flensburger Tageblatt : “Play area instead of street”: Children's demo on the Alsterbogen , from: May 4, 2009; accessed on: May 3, 2016 and Wif. Kerbtäler ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed on: May 3, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wir-in-flensburg.de
  10. ↑ See Lutz Wilde : Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, page 126

Coordinates: 54 ° 48 ′ 3 ″  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 12 ″  E