Kupferstrang

Map to 1770 ( edited)

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The copper strand is a tributary of the heart in Hildesheim. It was originally a division incurred by river arm of the heart, which in 1311 became the northern city 's fortifications, the dam and along with heart, Trillke and Blänkebach surrounded the city of Hildesheim.

From the Middle Ages different courses of the waters have come down, as the entire room was part of the floodplain of the heart, whereby the position of the side arms of the river differed significantly over time. The location of the copper strand was repeatedly corrected artificially. Described on the one hand a course in a wide arc to the southwest, then under the Moritzberg north abbiegend; on the Moritzberg tapering to the other further downstream from the innermost branching off in a relatively straight line west to the north turn. (see map)

Takes its name from a copper strand driven by its water copper mill. Already in 1451 is occupied at the Trillke such a facility. Directly on copper strand originated with the permission of the Hildesheim Bishop Henning House of 1480 a short-lived, privately operated copper mill that was already destroyed again in 1482 by bishop's troops in the course of a dispute between the city of Hildesheim and its bishop Berthold II von Landsberg.

The water power of the copper strand but was used earlier: Probably in the 11th century, Moritz Berger mountain mill was built at him, which passed into the possession of the city of Hildesheim in 1500. As of 1598 stood in the vicinity of the episcopal mint, but which was already in 1632, during the Thirty Years' War, destroyed. The mountain mill was burned in 1633 and 1651 could only be put into operation again. It existed until 1857 In its place came one after the other for several industrial firms, which used the copper strand water. A flax mill, a jute spinning and from 1876 a rubber or rubber factory.

The east-west direction to the south of me Else School extending portion was filled in only in the late 1920s. Today's Street on the copper Strange got its name in 1938.