Prökelmoor

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Prökelmoorteich at the Ohlsdorf cemetery

The Prökelmoor was until the 1920s a Moortümpel in swampy border area between the former villages and today's Hamburg districts Klein Borstel , Wellingsbuettel and Bramfeld . A stream flowed off towards the south and fed Lake Bramfeld . The name, derived from the Low German prekeln for "sting", indicates the former peat extraction in this area. In 1928, the site was incorporated into the Ohlsdorf cemetery as the last part of Otto Linne's expansion and a round lake about 120 meters in diameter was created. Circular terraces for urn burial sites were laid out around the Pröckelmoorteich (often also the Proöckelmoorteich on maps ) . The pond is to the north of the cemetery, east of the Kornweg entrance.

The former drain was replaced by a 15 meter wide canal, the Inselkanal , and a system of rectangular ponds and lakes that continue to flow into the Bramfelder See. The waters serve the surrounding residential areas as receiving water for accumulating surface water and apply to the Hamburg Water Act (HWAG) water law as public waters II. Order . The Prökelmoor is how the entire cemetery, an ecological niche in the urban space, in particular, it offers great crested grebes and kingfishers a hatchery.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Schoenfeld, Norbert Fischer, Barbara Leisner, Lutz Rehkopf: The Ohlsdorfer Friedhof. A handbook from A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-86108-086-9 , p. 149
  2. ↑ Helmut Schoenfeld: Water - design element and supply using the example of the Ohlsdorf cemetery ; in Ohlsdorf - magazine for cemetery culture, edition: No. 110, III, 2010 - August 2010 , accessed on November 13, 2011
  3. ↑ Nature observations: Ohlsdorfer Friedhof , accessed on November 13, 2011

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 41 ″  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 1 ″  E