Samerrot
The Samerrott , also Samerott , is a 266 hectare closed forest area in the municipality of Samern in the Lower Saxony district of Grafschaft Bentheim .
The Samerrott has been managed as a branded forest for centuries, which means that the individual owners are united in a forest cooperative that manages the forest holistically. As a so-called wet oak and hornbeam mixed forest (LRT 9160), it belongs to the FFH areas in Lower Saxony and bears the number 63 3609-303.
In addition to its importance for nature conservation and the timber industry , it is mainly known for its medieval place of execution on the legendary raven tree .
history
The closed forest area Samerrott is one of the oldest in the county of Bentheim . His first known cartographic representation is from 1744; the forest and the brand cooperative management are much older. At that time the management took place according to the "Verkörungsartartikel", which laid down the rights and obligations of the members, the tasks of the board and the management rules. Even today, the area is still farmed jointly. Its owner is the "Realverband Forstgenossenschaft Samerrott"; however, the shares in the forest are personal and freely tradable.
The forestry support is provided by the forest organization of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture . For about 25 years, with the aim of transitioning to permanent forest management, there has been no planar drift. The wood is marketed in part via the traditional auction by interested parties, and in part via the Grafschaft Bentheim forestry management association.
The tree population consists mainly of oaks and beeches . The quality of the Samerrotter oak is valued nationwide and rewarded with high prices.
Surname
The name of Samerrott and the community of Samern can be derived from the name Zameron , which was first found in the archives of Burgsteinfurt in 1109 .
location
Due to the Hanoverian law of 1842, the demarcation to Samer's field was made in 1843. Most of the boundary stones that have survived to this day are labeled SR 1843 and are numbered from 1 to 13. The stone with the number 1 is on the west side of the forest, where the Rheiner Damm municipal path joins the Samerrott; the stone with the number 13 is on the south side.
Raven tree
In the center of the Samerrott stood the legendary raven tree, which is said to have a circumference of 11 m and a diameter of 3.5 m, until the late 19th century. He was dedicated to the Germanic god Wodan , on whose shoulders sat two ravens who gave him wise advice. After its times as a sacred natural temple of the Teutons, the raven tree became a medieval thing - or place of execution, later also a meeting place for the painters of Samerrott.
According to the legend of "Anna Holmer and the Anabaptists" is located in the hollowed mighty tree 1535 located on the run from the captors of the Bishop of Münster Anabaptists have hidden January Kuiper before he was discovered by Malbauern that him on the court Schulze Holmer hid in Samern. Anna Holmer, daughter of the painter and runaway nun, fell in love with him there. Later, Kuiper is said to have taken part in the establishment of the Batenburger resistance group , which, in succession to the Münster Anabaptists, organized attacks on manorial property in the wider area of Emlichheim .
The raven tree lost its crown in a storm in 1798. The remaining stump, around four meters high, was later torched by strangers. Farmers fenced in its former perimeter with iron-bound oak planks in the shape of its former size and planted a new oak of the same name in its ashes. From the original tree only two pieces of wood are left in a showcase and a wooden ring that is supposed to represent the circumference of the tree.
literature
- Hubert Titz: History in the Spieker. In: Bentheimer Jahrbuch 2013. Heimatverein der Grafschaft Bentheim. ISBN 3-922428-94-0 . Pp. 301-304.
- Hans Götker: The Samerott. In: Yearbook of the Heimatverein der Grafschaft Bentheim, 1969. P. 107–111
- Johann Busmann: The Samerott and the community of Samern . Der Grafschafter, 1970. pp. 701, 716-717, 725
- Arnold Fokke: Anna Holmer or The Anabaptists . Home Society of the County of Bentheim, 1989.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schuettorf.de: Samerrott forest area attracts hikers with its biological diversity
- ^ Hubert Titz: History in the Spieker. In: Bentheimer Jahrbuch 2013. S. 304
- ^ Arnold Fokke: Anna Holmer or The Anabaptists . Home Society of the County of Bentheim, 1989.
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 20 ″ N , 7 ° 16 ′ 37 ″ E