Water villages

Water villages is a name for the villages of Hassel , Hastedt , Hemsbünde and Worth in the Rotenburg / Wümme district . The origin of the name lies in the two rivers Rodau and Wiedau , which flow into the Wümme in Rotenburg . In 1773 Johann Hinrich Pratje wrote:

“... the parish of Rotenburg consists of the village of Rotenburg and four villages, which are surrounded by water in the event of heavy downpours and in winter, when the rivers easily leak, that you cannot even drive from a village to the others can come to be called water villages, but in dry weather they are provided with good meadow growth. ... "