Language (forest area)
Language is the name of a forest area in Lower Saxony east of the city of Celle . The mixed forest was already known in the Middle Ages and was later made accessible from Celle by creating its own walking paths for short hikes.
History and description
The forest area was mentioned in a document as early as 1000 as "Sprake", derived from the Middle Low German term "sprok" for brushwood . A later name "Königsplatz" for a clearing located in the language made it possible to assume that it was a former Thingplatz of the Teutons .
Later the language was temporarily a forest of the sovereign over the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg .
At the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , the piano and organ builder Ferdinand Eduard Theodor Scheller from Celle won the wood from the language, which he could use as a sound box for his musical instruments through a process he invented .
In the early days of the German Empire , the Celler “Beautification Association” had walking paths laid out and benches set up in the language. As a result, excursions for school classes from Celle were part of the compulsory course program for decades.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d RWLE Möller , Bernd Polster : Language. In: RWLE Möller, Bernd Polster: Celle. The city book. Edition Stadtbuch, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-00-012605-8 , p. 232
- ↑ Bernd Polster, RWLE Möller: Ferdinand Eduard Theodor Scheller , in this: Celle. Das Stadtbuch , p. 216
Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 25.8 ″ N , 10 ° 9 ′ 42.3 ″ E