Ripping dam
The tear dam is one of the historic main ways of Schradens , located about sixteen kilometers from east to west through the center of largely in the Elbe-Elster district nearby lowland draws.
The settlement of the same name on the Reissdamm is an officially designated residential area in the small town of Elsterwerda in southern Brandenburg .
history
Ripping dam
The Reissdamm is one of the main historical routes of the Schraden, which runs from east to west through the center of the lowland. It connects Elsterwerda with the Plessa-Süd settlement belonging to the municipality of Plessa , the municipality of Schraden and after about sixteen kilometers with the municipality of Tettau, which is already in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district .
In the middle of the 16th century , a so-called electoral sow or hunting garden was created in the center of the Schradenwald in the area where the current Plessa-Süd settlement is located. In the middle of it was a forester's house, which had been built as a half-timbered building with small turrets at the corners. In addition, a dam path was laid out from the west in 1650 in order to facilitate access to the hunting garden for the hunters arriving from the Elsterwerda Castle from the west. Presumably it was the present day reissue dam. The forester's house suffered severe damage during the Thirty Years War and was later demolished.
As a result of the regulation of the Black Elster flowing through the lowland in the middle of the 19th century, separations became necessary in Schraden , since the groundwater level in the lowland had fallen by about one meter as a result of the extensive amelioration work and a total of 80,000 acres of swamp was made usable. As a result of the separations, the reissue dam was extended beyond the Vorwerk of the same name, which at that time belonged to the Krauschützer Domain , to Tettau.
The Reissdamm , which previously ran mainly as a sand and gravel road through the lowland , was expanded and paved as a “tourist path” in the early 2000s.
Reissdamm settlement
The settlement, which is located about four kilometers east of the Elsterwerda district of Krauschütz and only consists of a few properties, owes its name to the Reißdamm on which it is located.
At the site of today's settlement tear dam a Vorwerk was the late 17th century reign Elsterwerda built. It was one of the first in the lowlands alongside the Oberbuschhaus Vorwerk, which also belongs to Elsterwerda, and the Rotes Buschhaus Vorwerk, which belongs to the Großkmehlen rule . Among other things, these Vorwerk cleared the Schradenwald, dug arable land and ditches. Because of the use of the Schraden, disputes soon arose between these two lords, some of which were carried out in court.
The properties in the Reissdamm housing estate are characterized by the combination of living quarters and stables in one building. Some of these buildings are also provided with wooden cladding. They were described as remarkable in Volume 63 “Der Schraden” of the publication series “ Values of the German Homeland ”, published in 2001 .
legend
The legend of the Reissdamm tells of the construction of the Reissdamm, which leads through the middle of the swampy lowland, but which in the legend is located between Krauschütz and Merzdorf . Once upon a time, a knight is said to have lived in a moated castle at its end, to whom a maiden had to be sacrificed every year . After the thirtieth virgin, the knight and his doings were put to an end by the peasants in the area with the help of a wanderer.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. City of Elsterwerda , accessed on July 13, 2017.
- ↑ Rudolf Matthies : The Schraden as an old hunting area. In: Home calendar for the Bad Kreis Liebenwerda . Ed .: Working groups of friends of nature and home of the German Cultural Association in the Bad Liebenwerda district. Bad Liebenwerda 1959, p. 91 to 95 .
- ^ A b Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: Der Schraden. , Pp. 132-134.
- ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: Der Schraden. , Pp. 1128/1129.
- ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: Der Schraden. , Pp. 174/175.
- ^ Statute of the City of Elsterwerda on the collection of contributions for road construction measures - expansion of the Reissdamm and expansion of October 18, 2001 (PDF file).
- ^ A b Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: Der Schraden. , Pp. 120-121.
- ↑ Guntram Götzelt, Marlies Scheibe: Legends from the Elbe-Elster-Land . Ed .: Working group for local history Bad Liebenwerda. Bad Liebenwerda 2016, p. 58-59 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ' N , 13 ° 35' E