Corduroy road

A corduroy road or log road is meant a fortified by circular wooden path leads through a marsh or a swamp area with little resistant base. This one puts the wood transversely to the direction of movement on the edge of woods and covered it with more wood edge, each on both sides. Above and below -lying edge woods were then connected by binding pastures or later by wire. Instead of the stick also fascines were used. The corduroy road was a widespread construction around the 16th century around.

History

Corduroy roads or prehistoric Boardwalks have been known since the Mesolithic.

Varia

In the song the road again (1979), the songwriter Hannes Wader also tells of a corduroy road "... but suddenly spits and sputters the engine; shortdecided driving I right on a corduroy road along: that leads straight as through the middle of a bog ... ".