Wocker

Former fish house on the Wocker in Voigtsdorf

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

The river has its origin in a nature reserve in Great Moor at Darze belonging Granziner peat bog in the municipality of Granzin about 7.5 kilometers northeast of Parchim. In this wetland several drainage ditches open a. The Wocker runs from there in a southwesterly direction through the town Darze, followed by a larger coniferous forest area where an elongated carp pond is fed. Already in Parchimer urban area of ​​the small river at the mill Markower is dammed in a mill pond. At its northern shore the Wocker reached the Wockersee, which is flowed through to the south. According mapping of the State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg- Vorpommern ( LUNG ) the river flows into downtown Parchim into a tributary of the Elde. Another source provides designated as papermakers ditch water flow from the lake to the side arm of not more than one section of the Wocker.

In its course the Wocker overcomes a difference in altitude of about 17 meters.

Structures

Among the interesting buildings on the course of Wocker counts the listed fish house in Voigtsdorf. The wooden floor with pitched roof overhangs the Erdschoss executed in brick. The building was formerly in several basins the water of Wocker dammed and operated fish.

Further downstream was already mentioned in 1342 in records Markower mill in which taking advantage of hydropower grain was milled. The mill building burned down in the 1920s. A started rebuilding the mill did not come to completion. From the mill operation today reflects the pent-up mill pond with a small waterfall at the end. On the grounds of the mill writer Friedrich Griese built in 1935, his Rethus called home, where he lived until his arrest on June 22, 1945. After the departure of a Russian Field Division, which had initially been placed under protection Griese's house, began in the Markower mill looting by German. At the instigation of Parchimer Cultural Minister Adolf Lentze and arrangement of the Mayor of Parchim Griese's library, furniture and other furnishings were taken away. Today the house that Griese has made the city Parchim by letter dated 1 March 1975 Gift serves as Kinderkurheim and bears the name of Friedrich Griese.