Seewiesen (Dresden / Radebeul)

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Seegraben in the Seewiesen

The lake meadows on the city limits between Dresden and Radebeul are part of an old river Elbar . They form an elongated, flat and largely undeveloped depression with a historic drainage ditch, the Seegraben, running in the middle . Recently it was exposed again and received a new, flood-proof passage under Kötzschenbrod (a) er Straße .

location

Course of the Elbe and the Seegraben near Radebeul and Kaditz

The lake meadows lie on the right bank of the Elbe in a gully about 2.5 kilometers long, on average 150 meters wide and about two meters deep, along the border between the Saxon state capital Dresden and the large district town of Radebeul. The southeast end of the depression was originally at the current location of the Ikea furniture store in the north of the Elbe Park . In this area it is no longer noticeable due to the overbuilding. The channel begins today a few hundred meters further northwest below the Dresden-Neustadt motorway junction on the A4 . From there it first stretches about 1.5 kilometers to the northwest. The Seegraben, which runs in its middle, marks the boundary between the north-western Dresden district of Kaditz and the old Radebeul district of Alt-Radebeul . With the incorporation of Kaditz on January 1, 1903, it became the outer border of Dresden and is now the longest existing section. From about the height of the Heimkehrerstein and the Rundling Am Kreis , the gully runs a kilometer further to the west. There it marks the field boundary between Serkowitz and Kaditz. Immediately south of the center of Altserkowitz, the Seewiesen meet the Elbe meadows and the Elbe . The Seegraben flows near Altserkowitz into the canalized part of the Lößnitzbach just before it flows into the Elbe.

The names of the Kaditzer streets, Am Seegraben and Seewiesenweg, laid out in 1937 and the allotment garden association Seewiesen e. V., whose 107 parcels are east of the motorway and north of the Elbe Park. To the west of the motorway, in the Seewiesen you will also find the gardens of the allotment garden associations Alte Elbe Fürstenhainer Straße e. V., Seewiesen Kaditz e. V. and An den Seewiesen e. V.

The lower part of the Western Seewiesen is part of the 5387 hectare protected landscape Elbtal between Dresden and Meissen with left bank valleys and Spaargebirge (d 83).

geology

The lake meadows are a water-bearing zone and, like the Seegraben in the central and south-eastern Dresden city area, form part of the barely meandering oxbow gullies of the Elbe. Soil , peat and silt deposits cover their soil. The peat-containing layers can reach a thickness of more than five meters and are covered on their southern flank by sands, which in turn are superimposed by clay. Layers of the late subatlantic lie at a depth of about seven meters . The channel cuts through older Elbe gravel from the time of the Vistula Early Glacial and the Vistula High Glacial .

In the upper section, sandy soils of the Junge Heide and the former Kaditzer Tännicht, a no longer existing forest area, flank the lake meadows. In its lower area between Serkowitz and Kaditz, the alluvial soil of the Seewiesen border the loam of the lower terrace of the Elbe and its valley sands.

history

Waterlogged area - typical for the lake meadows, which is why they got their name
Seewiesen during the Elbe flood in 2006 , Altserkowitz in the background
The confluence of the Seegraben (right) into the Lößnitzbach

The lake meadows, which are mentioned on a crack by Balthasar Zimmermann Radebeuler Wiesen in the lake in 1627 , were often affected by floods in the Elbe as a low-lying floodplain . During the Elbe flood in 1845 (there are records of these "strangest waters" in the Radebeul city archive in the five-volume diary of the winemaker, Bergvoigts der Hoflößnitz and local chronicle Johann Gottlob Mehlig [1809–1870]) and in 1890 the valley was last a flowing body of water when it naturally entered the flooded corridors around Trachau drained. After the flood events, small ponds and ponds in many places in the lake meadows, to which they owe their names, remained for years. As early as the Middle Ages, a moat was built to drain the damp lowland . Since then, the lake meadows have been used as pastureland. The ditch was mentioned in 1566 as Seehe Graben and in 1598 as Sehegraben , in 1610 it was also called Radebeulische Sehe near Alt-Radebeul ( Rundling Am Kreis ) , which also became Radebeul Lake , because only there a water-filled pond remained when it was dry. There, east of the district, called the village center, the Tautzschenbach , which came from the vineyards, flowed into the Seegraben in the 1770s . In 1773 and again in 1814, the municipalities of Kaditz, Radebeul and Serkowitz received the order to clear the Seegraben twice a year and thus keep it functional. This obligation existed for the residents until around 1950.

After the Elbe flood in 1784 , it was decided to carry out extensive regulatory measures along the Elbe in the Serkowitz area (see Weiberstein ). This work lasted until 1789 and resulted, among other things, in the relocation of the mouth of the Seegraben into the Lößnitzbach. Originally the ditch flowed into the Elbe a little further south. In the course of Kötzschenbrod (a) er Straße, a massive bridge was built over the Seegraben in 1772, the construction of which the farmers in the surrounding villages had to do labor. It was destroyed by another flood in 1799 and then rebuilt. Another bridge was built in 1885 on Serkowitzer Strasse in Kaditz as a connection to Altserkowitz.

The Seegraben was considered to be rich in fish and was still completely filled with water until 1910, after which it was only filled with water during floods. For flood protection in Dresden , there were plans at the beginning of the 20th century to develop the Seewiesen into a flood channel. The plans failed because of Radebeul's resistance and became obsolete around 1920 with the construction of the (“southern”) Kaditz flood channel about 1.5 kilometers further south. With this, the lake meadows had lost their flood protection function. The intensive cultivation of the surrounding fields by the LPG early vegetable center " Wilhelm Wolff " Dresden-Kaditz as well as the changed inflow conditions due to the construction of today's A 4 in the 1930s also resulted in a significant decline in the groundwater level, which is why the Seegraben fell completely dry and in the middle In the 1960s, the upper part was finally filled with rubble and household waste and leveled. Radebeuler and Kaditz residents created allotment parcels here. The lower part of the sea trench was neglected and clogged in the following period. After the lake meadows were almost completely flooded by backwater during the Elbe flood in 2002 , the water could no longer drain away. Therefore, the Seegraben was restored over a length of more than one kilometer.

literature

  • Wolfgang Alexowsky among others: Geological map of the Free State of Saxony 1:25 000. Explanations for sheet 4948 Dresden . Freiberg 2001.
  • Wolfgang Alexowsky: Geological map of the Free State of Saxony 1:25 000. Sheet 4948 Dresden . Freiberg 2001, signatures 4, 18, 22.
  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
  • Curt Reuter; Manfred Richter (arrangement): Radebeul chronicle . Radebeul 1966 ( online version (pdf; 732 kB) ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) - edited by Manfred Richter 2010).
  • Siegfried Reinhardt: The Kaditzer Tännicht and the Seewiesen. In: New Neighborhood Kaditz e. V. (Ed.): Typically Kaditz. History and stories . Saxonia-Verlag, Dresden 2002, pp. 110-117.
  • New Neighborhood Kaditz e. V .: Dresden-Kaditz. History - stories - memories . Saxonia-Verlag, Dresden 2005.
  • Heike Funke: flood protection: restoration of the sea ditch. The Urban Development division provides information. In: Stadtverwaltung Radebeul (Ed.): Radebeul Official Journal. No. 02/2006. Radebeul 2006. ( Online version (pdf; 1.9 MB) )

Web links

Commons : Seewiesen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Dresden this street is called Kötzschenbroder Straße, in Radebeul Kötzschenbrod a er Straße.
  2. ↑ kleingartenvereine.de
  3. ↑ dresden.de (PDF; 93 kB)
  4. ↑ a b Alexowsky: sheet 4948 Dresden .
  5. ↑ Alexowsky: Explanations. 2001, p. 95.
  6. ↑ Alexowsky: Explanations. 2001, p. 83.
  7. ↑ Flood in Radebeul
  8. ↑ Curt Reuter; Manfred Richter (arrangement): Radebeul chronicle . Radebeul 1966, p. 9 (edited by Manfred Richter 2010).
  9. ↑ Curt Reuter; Manfred Richter (arrangement): Radebeul chronicle . Radebeul 1966, p. 25 (edited by Manfred Richter 2010).

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 40 ″  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 35 ″  E