Woog

As a Woog ( WAC, a Middle High German word water ) is called in parts of southwest Germany standing bodies of water. A Woog can be natural or artificially created.

  • 2.1 Baden -Württemberg
  • 2.2 Hesse
  • 2.3 Rhineland -Palatinate
  • 2.4 Saarland

Formation

Natural emergence

The ground in the southwest German low mountain ranges often consists of red sandstone. This is a good aquifer that filters rainfall. The water then exits through embedded barrier layers of clay, which prevent further seepage, in sinks out again. Thus, a series of bogs, fens and lakes have formed.

Artificial formation

Primarily as a water reservoir for the operation of mills or from Chiusa, where wood was collected for the drift, artificial Wooge were created by damming of watercourses. This also served mostly in monasteries emerged as fish ponds or from widened moats, as part of the city or castle fortification, for example, in St. Wendel and at the Imperial Palace in Kaiserslautern.

A temporary Woog created in the southern Palatinate Wasgau of the Knights of Berwartstein, Hans von Trotha, when he with the monastery White Castle in 1485, the Wieslauter at Bobenthal initially accumulate after years of feuding and then the dam was again tearing. So he caused in the eight kilometers downstream situated town White Castle first water -sensitive defect and then a huge flood, which is why the knight was first occupied by the imperial ban and later also with excommunication.

The legend of the pike in Kaiserwoog reports on an incident that is said to have played himself in 1497 at the then protected by an artificial waters imperial palace of Kaiserslautern and supposedly goes back to an event from 1230.

Occurrence of the name

The term is used for waters in Rhineland -Palatinate (often in Thetford Forest ), in Saarland, in southern Hesse ( commonly in the Odenwald ) and in Baden- Württemberg ( Baden North ); also names of streets or local areas are sometimes given back to the waters. Examples are:

Baden-Wurttemberg

  • Woogsee, natural Seerest at Rastatt in the valley of the Kinzig Murg- channel

Hesse

  • Big Woog, Reservoir of the intestinal Bach

Rhineland -Palatinate

  • Biedenbacher Woog, Reservoir of Leinbachs
  • Büttelwoog, camping at Dahn
  • Dämmelswoog, Reservoir near Fischbach
  • Eiswoog, Reservoir of Eisbach
  • Finster Thaler Woog, Reservoir of Leinbachs
  • Franzosenwoog, former water reservoir in the high Speyer Bach
  • Gelterswoog, Reservoir tributary streams of the Aschbachs
  • Hammerwoog, Reservoir in Kaiserslautern
  • Katzenwoog, Reservoir of Erlenbach near Kaiserslautern
  • Kolbenwoog, dam a tributary of the Aschbachs
  • Mörstadter Woog, Reservoir on the northern edge of Mörstadt
  • Mühlwoog, Reservoir of Leinbachs shortly before its confluence with the Hochspeyerbach
  • Pfälzerwoog (also Pfalzwoog ), dam of a right tributary of the Saar Bach
  • Salzwoog, part of Lviv, named after a former water reservoir in the salt Bach
  • Scheidel Berger Woog, nature reserve between Miesau and Hütschenhausen
  • Schweinswoog, Reservoir of Eußerbachs
  • Seewoog, Reservoir of Leinbachs at Waldleiningen
  • Sixmeisterwoog reservoir of Aggenbachs at Otter Mountain
  • Spießwoog, Reservoir near Fischbach
  • Stüdenwoog reservoir of Eppenbrunner creek
  • Vogelwoog, Reservoir with surrounding nature reserve on the outskirts of Kaiserslautern
  • Woogfelsen, natural monument at Biedenbacher Woog in Frankenstein (Pfalz )

Saarland

  • Age Woog, street name in the old town of St. Wendel
  • On Altwoog, street name in Neunkirchen district Furpach
  • Merwoog, street name in Kirrberg after a former water reservoir in the Lambsbachs
  • Möhlwoog, Reservoir of Erbach in Homburg - Jägersburg
  • Woogbachtal (also Ensheimer Gelösch ) valley with ponds near the airport Saarbrücken- Ensheim
  • For Altwoog, street name in Fürth in Ostertal
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