Pewsumer low

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Pewsumer low
Data
location East Frisia , Lower Saxony , Germany
River system Ems
Drain over Knockster Tief  → Ems  → North Sea
source northeast of Pewsum in the municipality of Krummhörn
53 ° 26 ′ 25 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 51 ″  E
muzzle in the Knockster Tief north of Twixlum in the city of Emden Coordinates: 53 ° 23 ′ 15 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 6 ″  E 53 ° 23 ′ 15 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 6 ″  E

Right tributaries Woltzetener low

The Pewsumer Tief is a watercourse in the municipality of Krummhörn in the Aurich district in East Friesland .

Course and backwaters

The Pewsumer Tief branches off northeast of Pewsum from the Uttumer Tief , which in turn is a tributary of the Old Greetsieler Sieltiefs in the Krummhörn . It flows south over Pewsum to Knockster Tief and takes in the Woltzetener Tief a few kilometers south of Pewsum near the town of the same name .

Traffic importance

For centuries, the natural depths and drainage channels that crisscross the Krummhörn in a dense network were the most important modes of transport. Not only the villages but also many farms were connected to the city of Emden and the port of Greetsiel via ditches and canals. The boat traffic with Emden was particularly important. Village boatmen took over the supply of goods from the city and delivered agricultural products in the opposite direction: “From the Sielhafenort, smaller ships, so-called Loog ships, transported the cargo to the inland and supplied the marsh villages (loog = village). The loog ships from the Krummhörn enlivened the canals of the city of Emden until the 20th century. "

Peat, which was mostly extracted in the East Frisian Fehnen , played an important role as heating material for the inhabitants of the Krummhörn for centuries . The peat ships brought the material on the East Frisian canal network to the Krummhörn villages. On their way back into the Fehnsiedlungen the Torfschiffer often took clay soil from the march and the manure of cattle with which they their home were dug fertilized land.

drainage

The Pewsumer Tief is located in the catchment area of ​​the I. Drainage Association Emden , based in Pewsum , the main town of the Krummhörn. Parts of the catchment area are below sea ​​level , so that without sufficient drainage, those areas would be under water if there was continued rainfall .

literature

  • Theodor Janssen: Hydrology of East Frisia. Publishing house Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1967.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This article is based, unless otherwise referenced, on Theodor Janssen: Gewässerkunde Ostfrieslands. Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1967, p. 211 ff.
  2. ^ Harm Wiemann, Johannes Engelmann: Old streets and ways in East Friesland . Verlag Deichacht Krummhörn, Pewsum 1974, p. 169 ( Ostfriesland in the protection of the dyke , volume 8)
  3. ^ Gunther Hummerich: The peat shipping of the Fehntjer in Emden and the Krummhörn in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Emder Yearbook for Historical Regional Studies in Ostfriesland , Volume 88/89 (2008/2009), pp. 142–173, here p. 163.
  4. ^ Map of the association area . entwaesserungsverband-emden.de; Retrieved July 6, 2013.