Redder
A redder is a path that is bordered on both sides by a hedge or a bend .
The name comes from Low German and means “way between two ditches occupied by hedges”, whereby at the time “ditch” was a wall.
It often happened that, due to the Coupling Act of 1770, every field was delimited with kinks. It turned out that the paths received kinks on both sides. The hedges along the paths also protected adjacent fields from the cattle driven by.
Redder play a special role in the natural balance . While approx. 30 pairs of birds breed in a single bend of 1 km length , the breeding pair density can increase up to 6 times in a double bend. Redder are therefore not only valuable as an optical structuring element, but also ecologically for cultural landscapes . Due to their structure, they not only offer a habitat for birds , but also for invertebrates and mammals . Some of them come from comparable forest structures .
Redder with an enclosed sandy path are particularly valuable, but even asphalt paths are often so shaded that their barrier effect is significantly reduced, especially for amphibians . Knicks and Redder are also parts of large-scale biotope network systems .
The term Redder is especially typical for the region of today's Schleswig-Holstein . The component “Redder” also contains street names in Hamburg (e.g. “Reinbeker Redder”) and Lower Saxony (e.g. Celle : “Kleine Redder”).
Individual evidence
- ^ Association for the Promotion of the Cultural Landscape eV - Ecology of the Knicks. Archived from the original on April 19, 2010 ; accessed on August 27, 2019 .