School and community gardens

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Park on Dowesee
Gardener's house in the school and community gardens, a nearby greenhouse is also used for cultural events in summer.
"Brunnennixe" in the garden (by Anny Funke-Schmidt, 1955).

The school and community garden at Dowesee is a 9.07 hectare urban park in northern Braunschweig . It was created as a main school garden in 1919 and expanded in 1953. It is surrounded by a water protection area . It is located north of the Siegfriedviertel between the Vorwerkiedlung and the Schuntersiedlung and south of the Schunteraue landscape protection area.

Design of the school and community gardens

The school and community garden is a very extensive and well-tended park , which is divided into individual themed and garden parts. In the middle of the park is Dowesee. In the western part is the English Garden with a fountain and a moat. An arboretum is adjacent to it. To the east of the Dowesee is the kitchen and herb department with extensive collections of medicinal plants and a rosarium .

The school and community garden provides u. a. for the residents of the northern part of the city , especially those of the Siegfriedviertel and the Schuntersiedlung, a recreational area close to their homes. In contrast to other public parks, visitors only have access to the park during fixed opening times. The garden is used for teaching and research purposes.

In 2004 the ring road around the lake was raised and paved. In 2011 the cottage garden and the chess courts were renewed and a phlox garden restored.

The urban green and sport department of the Braunschweig city administration is responsible for the park .

Clubs and events

Several clubs are located in the garden:

The Friends of the School and Community Gardens on Dowesee and the Dowesee Biology Station organize cultural and nature events for a wide audience. It was founded in 1992.

The Dowesee Regional Environmental Education Center addresses topics from biology, ecology and sustainability to school classes of all grades.

Since the end of October 2013, the office of the Braunschweig Regional Association of Gardening Friends has been located in the southwest of the garden, where it created a teaching and experimental garden in 2015.

Dowesee

As of lying in the immediate southern neighborhood Bull Pond , the lake is a filled with groundwater sinkhole in the glacially influenced glacial valley of the Oker .

Geologically, this is attributed to an extensive fault zone between the Salzdahlum and the honeycomb lowland , which is known as the Braunschweig axis . In this zone, the lower lying salt has partially lifted and, like in the honeycomb valley, has been washed out and covered by sand and gravel from the river.

Until the 19th century, the water from the Dowesee ran off in the Ohe through the Ohefeld to the then very branched Schunter . Today a Wiesenbach beginning at the Butterberg bears this name and runs along the western edge of the Schunteraue to the Alte Schunter .

Drinking water production

When bottlenecks appeared in the Braunschweig water supply at the end of the 19th century, test drillings were carried out around the Dowesee from 1890 in order to develop the local groundwater resources. In fact, promising delivery rates and satisfactory water quality were determined, so that the Braunschweig magistrate decided in May 1900 to build the groundwater works on Bienroder Weg, which still exists today. The water was pumped from 30 pipe wells with a depth of up to 30 m via siphon pipes to the waterworks. Since then, the area has been a water protection area. Protection zones I and II of this water protection area Bienroder Weg lie south of the Dowesees at the Bullensee up to the east over the honeycomb at Querum . Protection zone IIIa extends to Kralenriede , Gliesmarode and Schwarzer Berg . With its protection zone IIIb, the Bienroder Weg water protection area extends in the northeast to Bevenrode on the city limits of Lehr and in the east of Braunschweig to Cremlingen .

Finds of traces of settlement

In the vicinity of the Dowesees and in the bank areas of the Schunter numerous flint tools were found which were dated to the last Ice Age from about 10,000 to 7,000 BC.

In 1930 a dugout canoe was found at a depth of 1.50 m during dredging work on Lake Dowesee . It lay in the peat bog and was about 3.20 m long, 50 cm wide and 30 cm high. The side walls were about 4 cm thick, the front and rear stems butt rounded. Its construction time is probably in the first centuries AD. It was the first dugout canoe found in the Braunschweiger Land.

Myths and legends

The area used to be owned by the Riddagshausen monastery together with the surrounding villages . The legends of monks and sunken church bells handed down around the Dowesee act accordingly.

literature

  • Friends of the school and community garden on Dowesee and the Dowesee Biology Station (publisher): 75 years of Braunschweig school and community garden on Dowesee. Braunschweig - 1919–1994. Braunschweig 1994.

Web links

Commons : School and Citizens Garden (Braunschweig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press office of the city of Braunschweig: Phlox garden, cottage garden and chess courts renewed for 200,000 euros , July 8, 2011
  2. ^ Department of Urban Greenery
  3. ^ [1] Garden as an urban green area
  4. ↑ Friends of Events
  5. ↑ Friends' Association Review
  6. ↑ Dowesee Regional Environmental Education Center
  7. ^ Garden friends office
  8. ↑ Friends' Association: Culture
  9. ^ Wilhelm Appelt, Theodor Müller: Wasserkünste und Wasserwerke der Stadt Braunschweig , Braunschweig 1964, p. 107
  10. ↑ Water protection area (environmental map). In: www.braunschweig.de. Retrieved May 24, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Prehistory of the Schunteraue. Retrieved December 22, 2014 .
  12. ↑ The history of the Schunteraue. Retrieved December 22, 2014 .
  13. ↑ The saga of Dowesee. Retrieved December 22, 2014 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 34.8 "  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 55.1"  E