Aa (Ostbevern)

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Aa
Ostbeverner Aa
Aa in the Brock

Aa in the Brock

Data
Water code EN : 3346
location North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
River system Ems
Drain over Eltingmühlenbach  → Glane  → Ems  → North Sea
source Oedingberger Bach
52 ° 3 '26 "  N , 7 ° 55' 14"  E
muzzle Eltingmühlenbach Coordinates: 52 ° 5 '22 "  N , 7 ° 44' 50"  E 52 ° 5 '22 "  N , 7 ° 44' 50"  E

length 10.9 km
Catchment area 166.342 km²

The Aa is an area designation of the river strand 3346 in the north of Ostbevern , which ends under the name Eltingmühlenbach from the left into the Glane .

Surname

Aa is an old Germanic name for a river, which is often found in Westphalia . (see list of waters named Aa ). In the Alpine region of Ache (Old High German Aha ). "Ache", cf. Swedish and Danish Å , "water, river", is a common river name in the German-Dutch language area for rivers or streams . But it is also possible that it comes from the Latin aqua . Rivers were mostly denoted by a for aqua on the maps of the Middle Ages. In Ostbevern the flowing water is also known under the term “Glane”.

course

The stream is called the Oedingberger Bach upstream before reaching the municipal boundary . It is named after the Oedingberge estate . In Ostbevern it flows through the Brock farmers over a length of approx. 10.8 km. There the Bockhorner Bach and the Riedenbach flow to the brook . The last part, approx. 1.5 km, the river forms the border between the district of Warendorf and the district of Steinfurt . After leaving the municipality, the stream is then called Eltingmühlenbach . The name gives the house Eltingmühle in Schmedehausen , which had storage rights.

Tributaries

history

On February 11, 1930, the “Aa Regulatory Cooperative” was founded in Ostbevern. The Aa should better drain the surrounding green areas in order to gain new arable land. On February 15, 1933, the "Aa-Regulierungsgenossenschaft" commissioned the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, to carry out the work after the State Labor Office of Westphalia had promised funding two days earlier, which is not surprising, since Labor Minister Franz Seldte was the chairman of the Stahlhelm . This work was completed in autumn 1933 after a good eight months. However, this led to a drop in the groundwater level in the summer months. In the 1980s, as part of land consolidation, a water division and barrages were built to regulate the water level. In addition, the slow-flowing Aa received a gravel bed in the lower reaches to prevent it from meandering .

Web links

Commons : Aa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Water directory of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection NRW 2006 ( Memento from February 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.03 MB)
  2. ↑ www.heimatvereinostbevern.de
  3. ↑ cf. Siegfried Schmieder: Ostbevern contributions to the history and culture of a community in the Münsterland. Warendorf 1988, p. 43.
  4. ↑ Heimatverein Ostbevern