Wipperteich
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| Today's level of the former Wipperteich pond with a dark pond bottom | ||
| Geographical location | Rüben ( Gifhorn district ) and Wolfsburg , Lower Saxony | |
| Location close to the shore | Wolfsburg | |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 29 '3 " N , 10 ° 49' 53" E | |
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particularities |
Former reservoir, drained in 1841 |
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| Wipperteich 1829 | ||
The Wipper pond was in the Middle Ages to the reclamation in 1841 a 200-hectare, is stautes waters on the Vorsfelder Werder . It served the fish farming and the operation of the nearby Wippermühle by the Wipperaller . Today it is a plain used agriculturally as meadow and arable land in eastern Lower Saxony near the border with Saxony-Anhalt . The former pond lies between Wolfsburg-Velstove , Rüßen - Brechtorf and Rorien-Eischott .
Surname
The origin of the name of the word Wipper is not clear. It can indicate rocking land because the ground is boggy. Another explanation is the naming by the Slavic tribe of the Wends , who settled on the Vorsfeld Werder until the Middle Ages. Wipper comes from the Old Slavic word vepri for boar. Other waters in the area have also been named after Slavic animal or plant names.
history
The pond bottom on the back of the Vorsfelder Werder was created during the Saale Ice Age , when meltwater flowing away formed a flat plain. The 11 km long brook of the Wipperaller drained this area. It still flows today from the 70 m high Werder ridge near Hoitlingen through the plain down to the Drömling and flows into the Aller at Vorsfelde . In the Middle Ages, the brook was dammed with a 500 m long dam to the Wipperteich . A body of water 2 km long and 1 km wide was created within a 60 m contour line . The pond, which is only 1.5 m deep, was used for fish farming and the operation of the nearby Wippermühle , which was driven by the Wipperaller as a pond drain. Large islands and peninsulas, the meadow eyrie, protruded from the water. The fact that the water was dammed as early as the 14th century is supported by the documentary mention of the Wippermühle in 1366. During the Thirty Years' War , the pond was overgrown with reed beds due to insufficient maintenance and is said to have dried up in some years. With an area of around 200 hectares (depending on the water level), the Wipperteich was still the largest body of water in the Braunschweig region in the 19th century .
A survey of goods by the Princely Chamber of the Duchy of Braunschweig reported in 1710 that the growth of the fish was not so good because of the sterile pond floor and because of birds of prey. Even so, the pond produced around 3500 fish every three years when it was fished. Because of the abundance of fish, the four richest Vorsfeld town houses were obliged to keep hound dogs and to provide a guard at the pond.
The Magdeburg school principal and home chronicle, Samuel Walther, described the pond in his Magdeburg merchandise, part VII. From 1737:
... the large Wipper pond that goes right through the Werder and stretches for half a mile. This pond is flowed by a stream that comes from Hoitlingen, has quite a lot of insul and grass field in the middle and is full of fish.
In 1841 the pond was finally drained and converted into pastureland and fields. Today the black bottom and the old dam still point to the former pond. The border between the city of Wolfsburg and the municipality of Rorien runs right through it . In 1996 a memorial stone was erected on the outskirts of Velstove in memory of the Wipperteich. At the beginning of the 21st century, there were considerations to damming the pond again to create a wetland habitat and to upgrade the area for recreational purposes. These plans were dropped.
Wipperteich on the Vorsfelder Werder , map of the 18th century
Depiction of the pond around 1745
Memorial stone for the Wipperteich in Velstove, behind it the former pond area
Drawing of the pond on the metal plate of the memorial stone
legend
The legend of the Wipperteich tells of a woman from Brechtorf who behaved so strangely that she was declared a witch . The village wanted to free itself from the mischief and spent her tied up on a wagon to the Wipperteich. At a deep point they were thrown into the pond with the wagon to drown them . In revenge for this, the pond later claimed its victims. One day a stately carriage came on the way from Wendschott to Brechtorf. Anyone who asked the coachman was willingly taken away. The respective victim fell into a deep sleep and drowned in the pond into which the horses ran. But a woman from Brechtorf was able to save herself. When a strong wind blew across the pond, one spoke of the evil spirit of the Kemphan with its rumbling tones. One explanation for the noise could be the bittern's courtship call .
See also
literature
- Axel Hindemith: The Wipperteich in Werder in: Wolfsburger Nachrichten of July 6th and September 25th, 1987
- Eberhard Rohde: The legend of the Wipperteich in legends and fairy tales from the Gifhorn-Wolfsburg area , Gifhorn, 1994
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Polte: With hound dogs and guards against fish thieves in Wolfsburger Nachrichten of March 20, 2014