8-458: Siek may refer to: Siek (landform) , the name for a type of hollow common in parts of Germany Siek, Holstein , a municipality in Germany Siek (Amt) Sikh , historically also sometimes spelt Siek , a follower of Sikhism Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
16-580: A siepen , which is mainly found in the south Westphalian area and generally also describes wet valley bottoms, mostly stream-bearing V-shaped valleys. Kilverbach Kilverbach is a small river on the border of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . It flows into the Else south of Rödinghausen . This article related to a river in Lower Saxony is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to
24-604: A host of brooks and headstreams, which used to flow in marshy V-shaped valleys . Not all Sieke are or were, however, crossed by a stream, but at the very least they always consisted of wet ground. During the course of medieval and early modern cultural and agricultural history, people developed these natural landforms by cutting into the edges of the V-shaped valleys (so-called Wiesenbrechen by Wiskenmaker ) and turning them into trough and box valleys , and any streams were regulated such that they ran in straight beds along
32-506: Is a north German term for a wet depression, hollow or lowland area. It is mainly used to describe typical cultural landscape elements in eastern Westphalia , especially in the county of Lippe and in the region of Ravensberg Land . In East Westphalia "siek" is a very common component of the names of tracts of land, roads, places and even personal names, e.g. Heidsiek , Siekhorst , Im Siek , Siekmann and Sieker . The fertile loess soils in this region of north Germany are dissected by
40-517: The edges of such a box valley. The aim of these measures was the create a wet grassland in the now broad, accessible stream meadows which could then be extensively cultivated. In addition the cut, grass sods or plaggen were able to be used to fertilise the surrounding fields ( Plaggendüngung ). In Ravensberg Land, sieke are generally narrow, trough valleys interspersed in the countryside and lying next to cultivated areas of slightly higher ground or kuppen ( Plaggenesche ), which were raised by
48-451: The grass sod fertilisation. Since, owing to the changed production conditions in modern agriculture, the grasslands in the sieken have become economically largely superfluous, many unused sieke would become marshy again in the long term without mowing and maintenance and turn into black alder carrs . Conservation and cultural landscape management today have the task of ensuring a balanced relationship between renaturalising sieken on
56-596: The one hand and regularly mown grassland sieken on the other. An example of protected siek systems is the Kilverbach valley ( 52°13′43″N 8°27′41″E / 52.228667°N 8.461318°E / 52.228667; 8.461318 ( Kilverbachsiek ) ) and the Wöhrener Siek in Ravensberg Land. Etymologically probably related and conceptually similar is the valley landform known as
64-449: The title Siek . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siek&oldid=1148333294 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Siek (landform) Siek
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