Wocker

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Wocker
Former fish house on the Wocker in Voigtsdorf

Former fish house on the Wocker in Voigtsdorf

Data
Water code DE : 5927962
location Germany , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Ludwigslust-Parchim district
River system Elbe
Drain over Elde  → Elbe  → North Sea
source In Granziner peat bog
53 ° 29 ′ 50 ″  N , 11 ° 54 ′ 48 ″  E
Source height approx.  59  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in Parchim in a branch of the Elde Coordinates: 53 ° 25 '43 "  N , 11 ° 50' 37"  E 53 ° 25 '43 "  N , 11 ° 50' 37"  E
Mouth height approx.  42  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 17 m

Catchment area 33.3 km²
Flowing lakes Wockersee
Small towns Parchim

The Wocker is a right tributary of the Elde in the southwest of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Wockersee in Parchim

The flowing water has its origin in the Granziner peat bog, which is part of the Great Moor nature reserve near Darze, in the municipality of Granzin, about 7.5 kilometers northeast of Parchim . Several drainage ditches flow into this wetland. The Wocker runs from there in a south-westerly direction through the village of Darze , then through a larger coniferous forest area, where an elongated carp pond is fed. Already in the Parchim city area, the small river at the Markower Mühle is dammed in a mill pond. On its north bank, the Wocker reaches the Wockersee , which flows through to the south. According to the mapping of the State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (LUNG), the river flows into a tributary of the Elde in downtown Parchim . Another source sees the watercourse from the lake to the side arm, known as the papermaker's ditch , no longer as a section of the Wocker.

In its course, the Wocker overcomes a height difference of around 17 meters.

Buildings

The listed Fischhaus in Voigtsdorf is one of the worth seeing buildings along the course of the Wocker . The wooden upper floor with a pointed roof dominates the brick ground floor. In the past, the Wocker water was dammed up in several basins in the building and fish was farmed.

Weir at the Markower mill

Further downstream was the Markower Mill , mentioned in records as early as 1342 , in which grain was ground using water power. The mill building burned down in the 1920s. A rebuilding of the mill that had begun was not completed. The dammed up mill pond with a small waterfall at the outlet still bears witness to the mill operation . The writer Friedrich Griese built his house called Rethus on the mill premises in 1935 , in which he lived until his arrest on June 22, 1945. After a Russian field division, which had initially placed Griese's house under protection, withdrew, the Markower mill began to be looted by Germans. At the instigation of Parchim's head of culture, Adolf Lentze, and by order of the mayor of Parchim, Griese's library, furniture and other facilities were removed. Today the house, which Griese gave the city of Parchim as a gift in a letter dated March 1, 1975, serves as a children's spa and bears the name Friedrich Grieses.

Web links

Commons : Wocker  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b according to the contour lines in the maps of the geoportal MV
  2. Map portal Environment MV (water → hydrology → water network → water lines)
  3. Keywords Wocker and Wockersee ( memento from February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in the Parchim dictionary on stadt-parchim.de
  4. ^ Keyword Papiermachergraben ( memento of October 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) in the Parchim dictionary on stadt-parchim.de
  5. List of monuments of the Parchim district for the city of Parchim ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 46 kB)
  6. Markower Mühle at zwillingswindmuehlen.de (names 1924 as the year of the fire)
  7. Keyword Markower Mühle at stadt-parchim.de ( Memento from October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (names 1928 as the year of the fire)
  8. Karl Augustin: History of the Markower Mill in: 650 Years of the Markower Mill , series of publications by the Museum of the City of Parchim, issue 2, Parchim 1992, digitized version (PDF file; 167 kB) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )