4.4 Lower Saxony
chapter4.4_Neu.qxd 08.10.2001 16:10 Uhr Seite 165 Chapter 4.4 The Lower Saxony Wadden Sea Region 165 4.4 Lower Saxony 4.4 The Lower Saxony trict of Land Wursten, directly west of the Hohe Wadden Sea Region Lieth, it is bounded by two distinct lines: in the east by the Grauwall canal that was enlarged in by Jan-Joost Assendorp, Doris Böker, Gernot the 1950s, and in the west by the Bremerhaven- Fischer, Elke Först, Falk-Reimar Sänger, Rolf Cuxhaven railway line that runs on the eastern Bärenfänger, Wiebke Dreeßen, Volker edge of the high marsh with its relatively firm Gläntzer, Jörg Eckert, Hermann Schiefer, ground. Gregor Schlicksbier, Wolfgang Schwarz, The first settlement on a major scale on the Friedrich-Wilhelm Wulf; sea walls and surf embankments on the outer Editing: Gregor Schlicksbier, edge of the old marsh took place in the last cen- Jan-Joost Assendorp tury B.C. Although scattered traces of older set- tlements from the iron age were found on the 4.4.1 The land between Elbe and Weser higher parts of the banks, only the uptake of land (Elbe-Weser Districts) from the first century left behind permanent traces in the cultural landscape. As the farms 4.4.1.1 Introduction and villages were first laid out on level ground, The marsh areas between the Weser and the the ever increasing tidal storm surges that were Elbe, which for the most part form part of the running on shore forced the settlers to rebuild Cuxhaven administrative district, may be divided their farms and eventually whole villages on into three different geographic and cultural dwelling mounds that had to be thrown up high- units.
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