Region and Settlement Area

The following articles provide information about the geography and geology of our village and the region it is placed in, the Warburger Börde.

The Börde as a settlement area

From the illustrated map can be seen that already in the Old Stone Age, the time of the "hunters and gatherers" (beginning about 600,000 BC), a few human settlements in the Börde area were present, primarily in the area of the Desenberg.

The Börde and her two characteristic plants - wheat and sugar beet

As already mentioned, the cultivation of agricultural crops has changed in the Warburg Börde (eg vegetables). Over centuries, two „typical plants“ were determinative and formative: the wheat and the sugar beet.

Design of the region by natural forces

First, the water has to be mentioned as a formative force. Water washed out the large trough. On the bottom of the trough laired marl and clay. They made the removal through the water less resistance than the hard limestone in the edge of the Börde. The many streams and other watercourses washed away the soft Keuper marl, the hard Muschelkalk frame they keep standing. This all happened before the Loess covered the landscape.

Eissen - village in the Warburg Börde

Between the people and the character of a region in which they live, there is a correlation. The nature of a landscape acts on the people that are living within. The inhabitants of a region in turn shape the landscape according to the given possibilities, their own needs and the resulting ideas based on their life needs. Reduced to a nutshell, it can be stated: The landscape shapes the people, the people formed or shaped the landscape.