Windebyer Noor

The Windebyer Noor ( also outdated: Eckernförder Noor, Schna ( a) by Noor and Goos- Noor; Danish: Vindeby Nor, Low German: Winnebyer Noor, Winneby - Noor ) is a 389 -acre lake in Schleswig -Holstein. It lies on the western edge of the city Eckernförde to its municipal area it belongs to. In the south and west of the eponymous municipality Windeby borders on the shore of the lake. Former residents of the lake were also the community Borby until its incorporation in 1934 ( Borbyer exclave Schnaap ) and the community Gammelby to 1973 ( Grass Wood ).

Origin and history

The lake was formerly connected directly as end of Eckernförder bay of the Baltic Sea. The hollow shape of the Windebyer Noores originated as glacial tongue basin during the Weichsel glaciation. During this time, the United weichseleiszeitliche Baltic glacier in Schleswig-Holstein divided into a " Holsteiner lobe " and a " Eckernförder lobe ". The " Eckernförder lobe " in turn divided in today Eckernförder area by taking advantage of ( some geologists opinion before the ice age scale ) depth contour of Eckernförder Bay into a northern ( " Windebyer Noor - tongue " ) and a southern ( " Wittensee - Goossee - tongue " ) Teileiszunge. The Windebyer Noor tongue shaped, inter alia, the Hüttener mountains that Wittensee - Goossee tongue Duvenstedter the mountains. An indication of the glacial formation is also a big boulder in Windebyer Noor, the "white stone ". Through sand deposits formed after the ice age in the course of time a beach ridge system ( Spit ), which is gradually closed the Noor of the Eckernförder Bay; the final separation took place, however, only in 1929 by artificial embankments. Today Windebyer Noor is only connected underground with the Baltic Sea; However, there are now plans the city Eckernförde to restore an open connection to their achievement initial steps have been made.

Archaeological finds suggest a settlement around the Windebyer Noor in the Iron Age. These include conch shell heaps and kitchen scraps that could be found during the construction of Eckernförder bypass in 1951 in several places and allocated using pollen analysis of the Iron Age, but these include the findings of the two bog bodies Windeby. In 1995, by means of a sediment echosounder two " fossil islands ' discovered in Windebyer Noor - maybe it involves sunken settlements, as the water level of the Baltic Sea, and thus also of the Windebyer Noor at that time was a few meters below the present.

A " East Wall " (also: " Osterwall ") of the Danevirke led right up to the Windebyer Noor.

Until the 1970s there was a bathhouse in the barracks Carlshöhe Windebyer Noor.

Situation today

On the over millennia been washed beach ridge today is the old town of Eckernförde. The term Noor points to the original state.

Around three quarters of Windebyer Noores are surrounded by a footpath that runs partly on the old railway line the Eckernförder orbits of Eckernförde to Owschlag - the complete circumnavigation is possible on Eckernförder streets. Since the trail is not consistently led around on the shores of total Noores and about a quarter were spared, swamp forests and reed beds have been preserved in part, undisturbed location.

The Windebyer Noor is now leased since 1957 by a professional fishing family business in its third generation, who farms the Noor with eel, perch, bream, carp, roach and perch, and since 1990 more and more with whitefish. The company also rents fishing boats. From the time until 1929, when there was still the connection with the Baltic Sea, in herring stocks were able to maintain, which decreased lately, however. These pegs reach about 15 cm smaller in size than those in the open sea.