Theodor Hermann Rimpau
Theodor Hermann Rimpau (born January 12, 1822 in Braunschweig , † August 5, 1888 in Kunrau ) was a German farmer . He is considered to be the founder of the Moordammkultur .
Life
Rimpau, who comes from a farming and merchant family in Braunschweig, attended secondary school and the Collegium Carolinum in his hometown. After an agricultural apprenticeship, he attended the Hohenheim Agricultural University . In 1847 he came into possession of the 6,413 acre Kunrau manor in western Altmark . In this region there is the fen area Drömling , for the first time at the instigation of the 1770-1796 Prussian King Friedrich II. Dehydrated was.
Rimpau is considered to be the inventor of the Moordammkultur, which he developed in Drömling since 1862 and which is also named after him as the Rimpau'sche Moordammkultur .
In 1870 Rimpau made the proposal to build a canal from Mieste on the newly built Berlin-Lehrter Railway to Kunrau in order to be able to transport agricultural goods.
Honors
Like his colleague Albert Schultz-Lupitz in neighboring Lupitz , who was considered a specialist in sandy soils , Theodor Hermann Rimpau received the Liebig Medal in gold, which at the time was the highest state award for farmers. The fields created using the Rimpaus method have since been referred to as Rimpausche moorland dam cultures . A memorial stone for Rimpau was erected in the Drömling. A drainage project in the Netherlands was named in honor of Rimpau after his place of residence, Cunrau .
The Kunrau School has had his name since the fall of the Wall .
aftermath
The Mittelland Canal roughly follows the route proposed by Rimpau for a canal.
The moorland culture was successfully copied in moor areas in numerous countries. Today in the Drömling you can see the characteristic shape of the fields in numerous places. However, many of them are no longer used for agriculture because they are located in nature reserves . Often willows grow in the trenches. The Drömling is often referred to as the land of a thousand trenches . Most of these ditches come from the Rimpauschen moor dam cultures.
Fonts
- The management of the manor Cunrau. P. Parey, 1887.
literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 492 .
- Helmut Maigatter: Land of a Thousand Trenches - From the story of Drömling. 2nd Edition. Dr. Eduard Gambietz, Behnsdorf 1997.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Maigatter: Land of a thousand trenches - From the story of Drömling. 2nd edition, Eduard Gambietz, Behnsdorf 1997, p. 43.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rimpau, Theodor Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German farmer, inventor of the Moordammkultur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 5, 1888 |
| Place of death | Kunrau |