Scheidelberger Woog

Compared to yesterday there was a lot less water in the Bruch, but still enough for some to enjoy it!
Amazing how quick the Bruch absorbed most of it. 

My imagination takes me away whenever I see this area flooded: 
The area is called the Scheidelberger Woog. Woog is the palatinate word for lake. The Scheidelberger Woog was the largest Woog in the Palatinate in the Middle Ages. Around the year 1600, it was the most important fish pond in the area. In 1770 it was drained and converted into usable meadows. 
Its exact extent can only be guessed at, as the depictions and the exact location of the Woog on old maps are not to scale. But due to its special size, its importance was emphasized at that time. It is believed to have been about 30 kilometres long and seven kilometres wide.

Today it is a nature reserve of the same name on the former area of the Scheidelberger Woog.

22:30;  3°C