Rodder Maar

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The Rodder Maar is located in a south-westerly direction from Rodder , at an altitude of 340 m above sea level to Niederdürenbach . When the cadastre was created in 1827, it belonged to corridor 1 in the Rodder district and was awarded to the Niederdürenbach community after the municipal political incorporation of Rodder to Niederzissen. The name Rodder Maar was retained, however.

Geological origin

In the Alluvian Age, around a hundred thousand years ago, the Rodder Maar was formed by faults and subsidence . Some assume a meteorite impact was the reason for the maar. The maar is not a real maar because it is not of volcanic origin.

The floor was filled with light clay due to deposits and weathering, making the floor impermeable to water. Rainfalls and smaller springs in its area resulted in water replenishment of shallow depth. The maar, now without water, had a water surface of about 30 acres and lay next to the Maarheide. Economically, the maar and the surrounding area were previously unused.

use

When around 1840 the population of the Eifel became generally impoverished due to poor harvests, storms, population growth, etc., attempts were made everywhere to reclaim land that was still fallow. During this time of need, the then owner drained the maar using a drainage ditch, dug drainage ditches and prepared an area for arable farming. In 1860, crops were already being grown in the maar.

Around 1870 Antonius Remaklus Weber from Waldorf bought the maar with some land, a total of 36 acres, from a Cologne textile merchant who ran a cloth trade with the Waldorf and Rodder weavers. In 1919 ownership passed to the Baron von der Leyen, Schirmau. This in turn sold the maar around 1960 to the hunting tenant Heiliger from Viersen. To the right of the village in the forest was the "small maar" with a size of about 3 acres. But this maar has meanwhile become swampy and overgrown, so that it no longer has any meaning.

Because of the distance to the maar, but also because of the damp clay soil and thus poor yields, the maar was later allowed to fill up again and left as a wasteland until the famine years after the First World War. In another time of need it was then drained for the second time and in 1926 it was almost dry.

Now a pasture was laid in the maar to let cattle graze in it. But with the economic boom around 1935, grazing on the damp ground was dropped again and the maar was again full of water. Due to the hunger years after World War II, people were again dependent on pastureland and so the maar was drained again around 1948. After that, the village youth went back again and again during the winter time, threw in the drainage ditch and thus reached a large area of ​​water on which a layer of ice formed in frost. This was for the enjoyment of the youth of the surrounding villages, who were active in sports on the ice with ice skating. In the spring the water was then repeatedly drained and a pasture was available for the summer.

Around 1960, spruces were planted in the maar and the drained maar was reforested. This measure was received with regret by the youth, because the little winter fun was unfortunately lost.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rodder Maar Niederduerenbach. Retrieved July 22, 2020 . 
2. ↑ The Rodder Maar - a very special nature experience. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .