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"For hundreds of years, people have lived in close proximity to the Rhine. The farming and fishing village of Flittard was first mentioned in a document in 989 (HBHistSt NRW 2006, p. 604, although the document is considered "possibly forged"), and the town of Stammheim as early as 959. Since then, people have lived with and from the river, profiting from it and suffering equally from its proximity. It was only when the dyke was built in 1894 and 1895 that this situation changed.
The hundred-year-old Stammheim-Flittarder Dam begins in Stammheim and runs north along the river to the end of the Flittarder Rheinaue nature reserve. A footpath and cycle path runs on the dam itself and parallel to it, offering the opportunity to go for recreational walks from the proximity to the river. benefit.
Since the beginning of settlement in Stammheim and Flittard, people have tried to control and change the course of the Rhine. The banks were subject to constant changes. A fixed course as we see it today was not the norm for a long time. When landowners on one side tried to increase their property by trying to wrest land from the Rhine, this often led to demolitions on the other side of the bank.
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