Reuterweg (Visbek)

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Crossing Reuterweg (from left to right) / Pickerweg

Reuterweg is now the name of a hiking trail in the municipality of Visbek in the Lower Saxony district of Vechta . The path is also a section of an old road that led from the Netherlands via the Emsland , the Hunte and the Weser to the Lüneburg Heath .

Today's course

The path begins today in the Visbeck farmers' association in Hagstedt in an orchard. It runs eastwards past a hanging beech that has been declared a natural monument to the country road between Vechta and Visbek, crosses this north of Astrup, crosses the Pickerweg north of Norddöllen and ends in Wöstendöllen . It runs south of the Visbeck town center. Occasionally the part of the former Altstrasse Reuterweg to the west of Hagstedt is also mentioned (e.g. from the municipality of Emstek ).

Course of the old street

Way cross under a weeping beech on Reuterweg in Hagstedt

As early as the Bronze Age there is said to have been a trade and military route between the middle Ems and the middle Weser. Remnants of this path could still be seen in the landscape in the 19th century. They were mapped by Friedrich von Alten in 1888. Von Alten referred to the paths that still existed at that time as “ Kriegerpad ”, “ Herzog-Erich-Weg ” and “Reuterweg”. Von Alten's map suggests that these apparently short routes are part of the Bronze Age long-distance route that merged into the Folkweg at Bühren . Theodor Mommsen also shares this opinion .

According to Bernd Ulrich Hucker , the Reuterweg did not run towards the Huntebrücke near Bühren, but towards the "Golden Bridge" southeast of the center of Goldenstedt .

Ernst Dünzelmann provides a possible explanation for the different views on the course of the Folkweg: The “Folcweg” separated the Dervegau from the Lorgau during the Saxon period and formed the border between the dioceses of Bremen and Minden . This had run from the east to Goldenstedt and from there to Reuterweg. Later "the border of the Bremen and Minnesian diocese ran a little further north". That is the reason why it was assumed that the Folkweg had crossed the Hunte near Bühren. According to another explanation, the Volkweg (here the term is to be understood as a generic term ) that crossed the Hunte at Bühren did not run towards the Reuterweg, but followed the course of the Hunte from Bühren to Oldenburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Bishop of Münster (ed.): Cross discovered under the beech as a place of prayer. Place of silence between endless strawberry fields . kirchensite.de . April 11, 2011.
  2. ↑ Municipality of Emstek: History and development - the municipality introduces itself ( memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.emstek.de
  3. ^ Samtgemeinde Grafschaft Hoya - Municipality Schweringen: Village renewal planning for the localities Schweringen, Holtrup and Eiße . May 2009, p. 16.
  4. ↑ O. Hagena: The Herzog-Erichsweg (with a map) . In: Yearbook for the history of the Duchy of Oldenburg. Volume 11, 1902, p. 95.
  5. ↑ Theodor Mommsen: The locality of the Varus battle . 1885 (reprint Bremen 2012), p. 58
  6. ↑ Lars Chowanietz: Part of the riddle hidden in the forest floor . In: Kreiszeitung. March 14, 2014.
  7. ^ Ernst Dünzelmann: The Roman road network in Northern Germany . In: Yearbooks for Classical Philology. 20. Supplement band. Leipzig 1894, p. 85.
  8. ^ Carl Heinrich Nieberding: History of the former Niederstift Munster and the adjacent counties . Vechta 1840, p. 195.
  9. ^ André Steuer: The Folkweg and other historical boundaries . District newspaper . 22. July 2013.