Weserdeicher sands
The Weserdeicher Sands are an island of the Lower Weser west of the main stream . While the upstream Juliusplate and downstream Elsflether Sand were included in the left-hand Weser dike and are therefore no longer islands, the island character of the Weserdeicher Sands has been preserved for reasons of nature conservation .
As the grammatical plural suggests, the 2.3 km long and 600 m wide island is made up of several parts, the Tegelsand in the south, the Ruschsand in the middle and the Rönnebecker Sand in the north, which is sometimes used as a rinsing area.
The island is delimited by the main stream of the Weser from Bremen-Nord with Farge and Rekum , by the Woltjenloch from the Juliusplate, by the Westergate , which runs parallel to the main stream, from Land Stedingen on the left bank of the Weser and by the Rekumer Loch from Elsflether Sand. In the interior of the island there is the small hole as part of an earlier branch of the Weser , consisting of a small lake and a drainage canal. Since the Lower Weser is a tidal area , the smaller arms of the Weser sometimes dry out at low tide, but flow through them regularly at high tide.
Large parts of the island are enclosed by summer dykes and are used for agriculture. At the edges of the pastures and mowing meadows there is some bush . Two pumping stations drain the cultivated areas into Westergate. In the northern part, which had been raised to the level of the summer dike as a flushing area, a tide-dependent shallow water zone connected to the Westergate was created as a compensation measure for the deepening of the Lower Weser . A similar shallow water zone was planned for the south of the island.
The only land access to the Weserdeicher Sands is a ford in the southwest, at the transition from the Woltjenloch to the Westergate.
Politically, most of the island belongs to the municipality of Berne in the Wesermarsch district in Lower Saxony, but the eastern bank zone on the main stream belongs to Bremen .
Web links
- Federal state study climate change and coast: Case study Weser estuary (PDF; 5.3 MB) with several maps of the dike foreland of the Lower Weser, u. a .: Page 15, Lower Weser and its tributaries with rough classification of the areas in the dyke foreland; Page 35, Biotopes in the foreland of the dike with a differentiated representation of the land use
supporting documents
- ↑ Compensation measure Rönnebecker Sand (PDF; 632 kB)
- ↑ Environmental report on the planned mining of bran in Ruschsand, 2005
- ↑ Gunars Reichenbachs: Lower Saxony's strangest border runs in the Wesermarsch. Nordwest-Zeitung , October 16, 2017, accessed on April 2, 2018 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 38 " N , 8 ° 29 ′ 33" E