Eastern Rietzschke
| Eastern Rietzschke | ||
 The Eastern Rietzschke in Mölkau |
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| Data | ||
| location | Leipzig , Saxony , Germany | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Sewer → Weisse Elster → Saale → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source |
Zuckelhausen 51 ° 18 ′ 13 ″ N , 12 ° 27 ′ 7 ″ E |
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| Source height | 138 m | |
| muzzle | In Leipzig- Sellerhausen in the sewer system (formerly in the Parthe ) Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 35 " N , 12 ° 25 ′ 20" E 51 ° 20 ′ 35 " N , 12 ° 25 ′ 20" E |
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| Mouth height | 116 m | |
| Height difference | 22 m | |
| Bottom slope | 2.9 ‰ | |
| length | 7.6 km | |
| Right tributaries | High moat | |
The Ostliche Rietzschke is a stream that flows through the southeast and eastern districts of Leipzig . Its name is derived from the Sorbian word rěčka for "Bach". In terms of water law, it is a second order body of water .
course
The Ostliche Rietzschke begins its course fed by some field streams in Zuckelhausen , flows through the districts of Holzhausen , Zweinaundorf (this is where the Hohe Graben coming from Baalsdorf joins ), Mölkau and Stünz , and then ends in Sellerhausen in the sewer system of the city of Leipzig.
Until the end of the 19th century it continued to flow via Volkmarsdorf , Reudnitz and Neuschönefeld to its confluence with the Parthe north of the railway facilities of the Dresden train station . This course can still be seen in some depressions in the ground, for example between Hermann-Liebmann-Straße and Lilienstraße and in Elsapark in Neustadt-Neuschönefeld. Along this disappeared section of the river ran a popular poplar walkway, the Poet's Walk.
The length of the Eastern Rietzschke is 7.57 kilometers today.
additional
In the fertile Rietzschke floodplains, extensive vegetable cultivation was carried out in earlier centuries to supply the nearby city of Leipzig (cabbage garden villages). Up until the 1980s, there was isolated agriculture there. Today there are many allotment gardens along the course of the Ostliche Rietzschke , which still give a hint of the once rural structure of the landscape.
The area around the Eastern Rietzschke is one of the Leipzig landscape protection areas .
In the north of Leipzig there is a similarly large stream called Nördliche Rietzschke , which was also a former tributary of the Parthe.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Leipzig rivers, 2nd order
- ↑ Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z , p. 502. PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8
- ^ Johann Gottlob Schulz: Description of the City of Leipzig (1784)
- ↑ Map of the Leipzig landscape protection areas ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )