Der Weserflößer

At the gates of Bad Oeynhausen, the Weser rafters have been commemorated. Rafter is an extinct profession. Not only the Weser was used until the 1960s as a means of transport to transport with the help of the flow logs from A to B. The task of the raftsmen was to bind the logs together with willow branches and to launch the resulting raft with up to nine logs in a controlled way to the timber handling stations.

The monument reminds of the heavy work of the floes.
They brought some time but also a lot of money in the place.
Erected on the tributary of the Werre in the "Great Weserbogen" near Bad Oeynhausen.