Raven Grove

two well houses in the Rabenwedding

The Rabenwäldchen in Weimar-West , located between Prager Straße and Moskauer Straße opposite the Weimar-West train station, is a small wooded area, a pure deciduous forest , from which three sources arise, the so-called Rabenquellen , which gave the small wooded area its name. The name has nothing to do with a place for executions , as is the case at Rabensteinplatz in Leipzig , but is derived from the crows , which were popularly equated with ravens . They used the wood as a place to sleep.

The well rooms there serve to supply Weimar with water. To tube drives all be connected almost wells in Weimar supplied with water. This became possible because in 1984 and 1986 two out of three wells were exposed and restored. The well rooms are made of small-format shell limestone . The roofs are as barrel vaults or barrel roof executed. The third was restored in 1997.

The area around the Rabenwälchen is also important for the settlement history of the Weimarer Land . In 1977 a German-Slavic settlement from the 9th and 10th centuries was uncovered during the preparatory clearing work for the construction of the new district in the area of the Rabenwäldchen basin. With over 2500 ceramic fragments, this site was one of the most important in Thuringia.

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Well pipes. Weimar fountain

Individual evidence

^ Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 359.
↑ Paul Hemmann, Günther Golling, Gisela Hemmann: The fountains in Weimar: history and stories about the emergence, the partial decay and the restart of the running fountain. Stadtmuseum Weimar, Weimar 1990 (= tradition and present: Weimarer Schriften. Vol. 38), p. 79.
^ Gerd Seidel and Walter Steiner: Building block and building in Weimar. (= Tradition and present: Weimarer Schriften. Vol. 32), Weimar 1988, p. 60.
^ Gitta Günther, Wolfram Huschke, Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 358 f. and Sigrid Dušek (ed.): Pre- and early history of Thuringia. Pp. 185, 187.

50.988545 11.310583Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 18.8 ″ N , 11 ° 18 ′ 38.1 ″ E

[1] Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 359.

[2] Paul Hemmann, Günther Golling, Gisela Hemmann: The fountains in Weimar: history and stories about the emergence, the partial decay and the restart of the running fountain. Stadtmuseum Weimar, Weimar 1990 (= tradition and present: Weimarer Schriften. Vol. 38), p. 79.

[3] Gerd Seidel and Walter Steiner: Building block and building in Weimar. (= Tradition and present: Weimarer Schriften. Vol. 32), Weimar 1988, p. 60.

[4] Gitta Günther, Wolfram Huschke, Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 358 f. and Sigrid Dušek (ed.): Pre- and early history of Thuringia. Pp. 185, 187.