Het clusterdorp Krümse

Pas met het grootschalige afwateringsproject aan het einde van de 19e eeuw nam de populatie ooievaars in de Elbmarsch snel af. De aanleg van het Ilmenau-kanaal, de dijk, de afwatering van waterlichamen en de overbouw van wetlands hebben de voedselbronnen van de ooievaars sterk verminderd (regenwormen als hun eerste voedsel, amfibieën, insecten, muizen, vissen voor de oudere jongens). Inmiddels is de ooievaarspopulatie gestabiliseerd op een veel lager niveau dan voorheen.Sommige broedplaatsen op boerderijen in Krümse, Fahrenholz en Mover worden al tientallen jaren regelmatig bezet, meestal met jaarlijks broedsucces. Het Drennhäuser Hinterdeich is een populaire voedingsbodem voor ooievaars. Hoe beter de voedselvoorziening, hoe kleiner de oppervlakte die ze nodig hebben voor de voedselvoorziening.Tegenwoordig worden pogingen ondernomen om ooievaars te hervestigen op ooievaarsmasten. Ze bieden het voordeel van een vrije naderingsbaan, omdat de ooievaar bij het naderen afhankelijk is van een bepaalde windrichting. Het biedt ook een goede bescherming tegen roofdieren zoals marters en katten. Zo'n mast is bijvoorbeeld te zien in Rönne ten zuiden van de Elbuferstraße.samtgemeinde-elbmarsch.de/agenda21/kruemse.html

The village Krümse was first mentioned in documents in 1333 as Krümsee (according to NLH information sheet 8) or Krummingehusen - Krummhausen, a village on a crooked street (after Reinstorf); Of course, it existed earlier.Originally the heap village was built on a natural hill, the houses were in addition to protection against flooding on Wurten. In order to be able to farm, the march had to be drained and dikes had to be built. It is assumed that the oldest dykes of the Elbmarsch around Krümse in the 10./11. Century emerged. It was followed successively more dike buildings, through which the Elbfeld should be protected.Of course, the dikes at that time were not comparable to today's buildings, because they were narrower and lower. For the structural conditions of the time, however, they represented a great achievement and offered above all the appropriate protection.
An indication that the dike system around the Elbfeld is older than the eastern Elbdeiche, provides the type of corridor distribution (at least before the land consolidation).From Rönne to Drage / Laßrönne, the areas were drained by an irregular system of ditches, the so-called block corridors were created. It is an old Saxon form of land acquisition; Erbhöfe were owned by the families who paid for it, who paid the tithes to rule.On the other hand, between Bleckede and Marschacht up to the bettors, the so-called strip corridor - long, regularly laid pieces - prevailed. They were areas of "rule" that had been divided into Dutch patterns. The restructuring - before that there was probably also block corridors (crooked ways can be concluded) - was certainly accompanied by dike and drainage systems to Holländerart. It can be established on the basis of documents to the time around 1258 (Johannsen, 1993). The block corridors and thus also the dikes around the Elbfeld (the "restructuring dikes" ended here) were therefore older.All in all, however, it was still a relatively open area with water bodies, reeds, reeds and wet grassland. All these were optimal conditions for the white stork, which is still here today in Krümse.Source:
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