Scheftheim meadows

	Scheftheim meadows near Darmstadt IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
location	Hessen , Germany
surface	166.07 ha
Identifier	1411008
WDPA ID	165373
Geographical location	49 ° 53 ' N , 8 ° 43' E Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '45 " N , 8 ° 43' 25" E
Setup date	1993

Aerial view of the Scheftheim meadows (lower half of the picture, 2015)

The Scheftheimer Wiesen is a nature reserve of 166.07 hectares established in 1993 in the east of Darmstadt in Hesse .

location

The Scheftheimer Wiesen are located southeast of the Kranichstein hunting lodge between Dieburger Straße and Bundesstraße 26 . You start near the Steinbrücker pond , which used to supply water to the Kranichstein pheasantry . The meadows stretch to the southeast along the Ruthsenbach .

history

The open areas of the meadows were used by the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt in the 16th and 17th centuries for so-called ceased hunting , in which the hunters could easily kill the game from the wooden stands. Further use after the end of hunting by the sovereigns as arable land was later abandoned in contrast to the Oberfeld west of the meadows . Wetlands developed that are now protected.

prehistory

Menhir complex at Ruthsenbach near Rossdorf

In the south-easternmost part of the nature reserve there is a system consisting of 14 re-assembled and erected granite blocks ( megaliths ) called the Menhiranlage von Darmstadt . There are some barrows along the Bernhardsackerschneise .

etymology

Historically documented forms of names in Darmstadt:

To Scheftheim (1521)

uf schiffthum ( ca.1550 )

vf Schefftum (1569)

on Schiffthumer Weg (1581)

in Schaffhumb (1634)

Scheftheimer Schlag (1634)

Left at Scheftheimer Weg (1634)

Scheftheim is a desolate, fallen settlement in the Darmstadt area that has not been documented. The - heim name probably goes back to an (unclear) weakly documented mhd. Schift for a "sloping point".

Schefter is a historically documented form of the name in Darmstadt-Arheilgen:

Scheftirstrudin (14th century), probably Strut "Buschwald" but it could also be an early shortened form of the desert name Scheftheim ; but probably an early evidence of dialectal sheepern as a name for the field horsetail (Equisetum arvense).

literature

Hans Ramge: Südhessisches Flurnamenbuch , Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt, 2002, p. 809.

Web links

Commons : Scheftheimer Wiesen nature reserve near Darmstadt - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ The Hessian Stonehenge in the FAZ of November 15, 2015, p. 46
^ Scheftheim, City of Darmstadt. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of August 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 1, 2020 .

[1] The Hessian Stonehenge in the FAZ of November 15, 2015, p. 46

[2] Scheftheim, City of Darmstadt. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of August 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 1, 2020 .