Wandsetal

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The Wandsetal is an approx. 10.5 km long and on average 100 m wide strip of green. The valley begins at the Kuhmühlenteich and extends to the eastern edge of the city of Hamburg to Rahlstedt along the watercourse of the Wandse . The Wandse brook is embedded in a green landscape axis with sometimes narrow, sometimes park-like widened green spaces, with floodplains, with dammed mill ponds and younger, sometimes well over a hundred years old trees.

geology

Several ice ages have shaped the landscape. The ground and terminal moraines give the Wandsetal a hilly character and the streams a surprisingly high gradient for the North German lowlands. B. the Wandse alone in the area of the Wandsbek district has a height difference of almost 30 m, the bed slope is reduced by ten barrages / retention basins.

Significance in the development of Wandsbek

Before the name Wandse became naturalized at the beginning of the 19th century, the brook was known as “Bek” or “Mühlenbek”. This name refers to the eight water mills that drove the Wandse in the past and are reminiscent of the mill ponds today. This made the Wandse, which has a relatively steep gradient, the busiest tributary to the Alster . The energy supplied by the water power of the Wandse made a decisive contribution to the economic development of the estate and later factory in Wandsbek. Businesses settled on the Wandse, the watercourse was diverted, straightened and dammed. Industrial sites that still exist on the Wandse today are explained by this historical development.

The enormous width of the green strip for the Wandse brook and the Wandse hiking trail is explained by the failed attempt to connect the Wandse to the Eilbek Canal and to make it navigable to today's Ostend swimming pool. The application from 1882 was approved, but failed because of Hamburg's resistance to continue the Eilbek Canal up to the then city limits.

Parks

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Köster: From the Outer Alster through the Wandsetal to Rahlstedt . Ed .: District Office Wandsbek. Department of Economic Development, Hamburg 2008, p. 2 .
  2. ↑ from: The Wandsbeker . In: Wandsbek v. 1848 eV (Ed.): Journal of the Wandsbek v. 1848 eV with its group of trade, commerce and industry . No. 4 . Hanseatisches Werbekontor Heuser & Co, Hamburg 1964, p. 1-4 .
  3. ^ Georg-Wilhelm Röpke: Between Alster and Wandse . 2nd Edition. Verlag Otto Heinevetter, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-87474-961-4 , p. 270 .