Semkenfahrt

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The canal of the Neue Semkenfahrt in the Bremen Blockland

The Semkenfahrt is a former main trench in the canal system between the Teufelsmoor and Bremen , on which peat was transported into the city. The name refers to different sections of the canal: the Alte Semkenfahrt near Worpswede in Lower Saxony , the Semkenfahrtkanal in St. Jürgensland near Lilienthal and the Neue Semkenfahrt in Blockland in Bremen. As Semkenfahrt also a large natural ice surface is on a polder referred to the New Semkenfahrt in Bremen Blockland.

History of the Semkenfahrt

Bremen could be reached from Worpswede by peat barge over the rivers Hamme , Lesum and Wümme in about three to four days. To shorten the route, the canal of the Semkenfahrt was “cut” in various sections in the 18th and 19th centuries , so that the journey was reduced to one or two days. In unfavorable winds from the west, the loaded barge to Bremen was mostly towed (pulled), staked or rigged (an eight-shaped movement with a long “paddle”), usually only on the return trip could the typical brown sail be used in westerly winds.

The heyday of peat shipping was at the end of the 19th century. Around 1880 around 25,000 shiploads of peat arrived in Bremen every year, 5000 to 6000 of them (30,000 to 36,000 m³) were transported into the city via the Semkenfahrt canals .

Sections of the Semkenfahrt

Old Semkenfahrt

(Start: 53 ° 14 ′ 3.1 ″  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 11.5 ″  E / End: 53 ° 13 ′ 6.36 ″  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 4.82 ″  E )

The canal of the Alte Semkenfahrt was laid out in the 18th century. It leads from Tüschendorf near Tarmstedt between the moorland villages Adolphsdorf and Otterstein southwest and then east past Worpswede with the Weyerberg . In Worpheim it encounters the Lüdinghauser Schiffgraben and continues its course northwestwards to flow into the Hamme at Neu-Helgoland near the railway bridge built later . Today the canal is only navigable for a short distance for paddle boats.

It is 12.7 km long, has a catchment area of ​​18.8 km² and has the GKZ 494892.

Semkenfahrt Canal

(Initial: 53 ° 11 '36.92 "  N , 8 ° 54' 20.54"  O / End: 53 ° 8 '51.62 "  N , 8 ° 50' 43.32"  O )

The Semkenfahrt Canal was created at the end of the 19th century. As a shortcut from the Alte Semkenfahrt near Worpheim, it leads with a slight offset (connection through the Lüninghauser Schiffgraben ) through the St. Jürgensland to the Wümme, where it ends at the height of today's excursion restaurant Zur Schleuse . From the Lüninghauser Schiffgraben to Querweg it falls partially dry these days. To the south of it it carries the GKZ 49489614 to the Kirchenfleet , then 49489616 to the Neugrabenfleet , then 4948982.

New Semkenfahrt

Former lock of the Neue Semkenfahrt, condition since 1995

(Initial: 53 ° 8 '40.38 "  N , 8 ° 50' 47.11"  O / End: 53 ° 7 '1 "  N , 8 ° 49' 3"  O )

The 3.4-kilometer Neue Semkenfahrt (also called Neuer Torfkanal ) was also laid out in the 19th century. It begins on the southern bank of the Wümme on the border between the Upper and Lower Blockland (at today's Gartelmann's Gasthof ) and leads from the Wümme to the Kleine Wümme . From there, the barges then crossed the peat canal to the peat harbor in Findorff . The transfer of the peat barges over the Wümmedeich was originally carried out with a ship cover using a winch . An inn was opened in 1868 to take care of the peat boatmen, who sometimes had to spend the night at this bottleneck, which later developed into a popular restaurant. In 1902 the ship cover was replaced by a lock , which was put down in 1995. Hydrographically, the Neue Semkenfahrt is listed as the 'Torfkanal' under the water code 49474.

The natural ice rink at the Semkenfahrt

The ice surface at the Semkenfahrt in February 2012

53 ° 7 '50.9 "  N , 8 ° 49' 50.3"  E

The natural ice rink on the Semkenfahrt (usually just called Semkenfahrt ) is an approximately 30 hectare and 3 kilometer long ice surface in the Bremen Blockland in winters with sufficient frost  , the one in the south of the Blocklander Hemmstrasse , in the north of the Wümmedeich, in the east of the Kanal the Neue Semkenfahrt and bordered in the west by the Südwenje .

The Bremen Ice Club has made the area available free of charge since the winter of 1965/66 . For this purpose, the meadows and pastures of the area are flooded for two to three weeks from November with three pumps that pump 135 liters of water per second from the Wümme until a water surface of around 20 cm is created. Due to the shallow depth, this water surface usually freezes over before other bodies of water in Bremen and is a popular destination for ice skaters and ice hockey players .

In the winter months, water birds rest in the area, also known as the Polder Semkenfahrt . In the breeding season for meadow birds from mid-March to the end of June, the Neue Semkenfahrt is closed to boat traffic due to a voluntary commitment by the State Canoe Association for nature conservation reasons.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Bremen and its buildings . Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1900, p. 611 .
  2. ↑ a b c Jürgen Heuser: Photos and stories from the Teufelsmoor. Semkenfahrt. Retrieved February 7, 2012 .
  3. ↑ GPS track of the Alte Semkenfahrt
  4. ↑ a b c Environment Lower Saxony - List Weser
  5. ↑ Our ice rink on the Semkenfahrt in Blockland. Bremer Eisverein, accessed on February 7, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Semkenfahrt could be opened soon. In: www.weser-kurier.de. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  7. ^ The "Semkenfahrt" in the Bremen Blockland. ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: radiobremen.de. Retrieved March 5, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  8. ↑ http://www.umwelt.bremen.de/sixcms/media.php/13/Begr%FCndung%20zur%20Verordnung.pdf
  9. ↑ http://www.lkv-bremen.de/revier/73-befahrensregelungen

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