Kehrbeeke

Kehrbeeke Ahrenriede
The Kehrbeeke below the Querumer pond looking downstream
Data
Water code	DE : 482893
location	Germany , Lower Saxony , Braunschweig
River system	Weser
Drain over	Schunter  → Oker  → Aller  → Weser  → North Sea
source	Querumer Forst 52 ° 18 ′ 45 ″  N , 10 ° 33 ′ 35 ″  E
Source height	82  m
muzzle	South of Kralenriede in the Schunter Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 51 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 36 ″  E 52 ° 17 ′ 51 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 36 ″  E
Mouth height	70  m
Height difference	12 m
Bottom slope	5 ‰
length	2.4 km
Big cities	Braunschweig
The official mapping deviates from the course given in the literature. The GKZ is the Schunter between Mittelriede and Beberbach.
In the Steinriede parcel is the natural monument Kleines Quellmoor , which drains into the Kehrbeeke.

As sweeping Beeke a stream in the northeast is Braunschweig referred, which rises in Querumer forest and south of the district Kralenriede on Bienroder way from the right opens into the Schunter. The brook name is not listed in the current official maps, but can be found in an identical street name and in the water quality report commissioned by the Braunschweig municipal drainage authority. The name Ahrenriede has also been handed down for the course of the stream in the forest .

Name and water allocation

The Kehrbeeke crosses under a street of the same name , which runs parallel to Landesstraße 625 as a connecting road between Kralenriede and Querum . Since the word ending -beeke is synonymous with Bach, the Bach can be assumed to be the namesake of the street. There is no official designation of the creek in the maps of the state of Lower Saxony, but the creek name is included in the aforementioned water quality report and also used colloquially. The meadow in the Schunteraue between the student dormitory and Kehrbeeke street is called Am Kehrbeeke on the official map , so not in the female form. According to Blume, the associated stream course is not certain. He traces the name back to Kerkbeeke , which means something like Kirchbach and possibly referred to the Riddagshausen monastery as the landowner.

The assignment of the name Kehrbeeke to the section between the mouth and the end of the Bussardweg street should be clear. From there, the official maps show two unnamed watercourses that flow into the Kehrbeeke. Looking upstream, a brook soon bends north and meanders through the forest to the Steinriede headwaters . In May 2015, the body of water shown on the maps only brought water from a small wetland near the Bussardweg. However, further east in the direction of Ahrenrieder Teich , there is a runoff from the natural monument Kleiner Quellmoor and the meandering periodic stream that fills the Steinriede corridor over a large area. The word ending -riede should be mentioned here, which is also a synonym for Bach. According to Blume, the ending -riede is often transferred from the stream to the surrounding wood.

According to the map, another stream runs east of the Ahrenrieder pond in the east-north-east direction and has its source at Landesstraße 293 ( Bevenroder Straße ). He crossed to the east of the pond, a swamp area that the official card as Ahren Riede is called .

The water, sometimes referred to as the Querumer Ententeich on the internet, has been named Ahrenrieder Teich on the official Braunschweig city map since 2019 . It can therefore be assumed that this body of water is the Ahrenriede named by Blume. This flows into the stream called Kehrbeeke.

course

In the water quality report the stream is called Kehrbeeke, which has its origin in the embankments of the entrance and exit of the federal highway 2 along the Waggumer Weg ( BAB 2 exit BS-Flughafen ). The determination of the length of 2,405 m relates to this course up to the confluence with the Schunter. In the source area there are two brooks, each of which runs like ditches on one side of the former driveway of Waggumer Weg. Even in dry weather, both carry water and a low current. The terrain of the path is cut about three meters below that of the forest level, the corridor of which is the Steinriede in the west and the Uhlenbusch in the east . The road ditches are partially provided with concrete floors and, like the path, are dead straight.

After almost 800 meters, the western ditch flows towards the Querumer Ententeich, feeds it with a small branch and flows around it to the south. The eastern ditch branches off towards the Ahrenriede wetland , where it takes on a natural shape. The water flows from the wetland through a concrete pipe under Waggumer Weg, where there is another inflow from the east. To the west of the path, both streams meet directly at the pond. The Kehrbeeke strives in a straight line to the west-southwest, where sections of its bank are not overgrown but enriched with dead wood.

At Bussardweg it leaves the shady forest and flows as a ditch to cross the railway line towards Uelzen . From there, it mainly directs its course to the south. Its left bank is defined by a wild meadow and meadow landscape, while the Kralenriede settlement and the An der Schunter student dormitory rise up on the right bank . In the latter, a staircase leads into the brook, and the higher lying ponds are obviously fed by the brook. The last hundred meters the Kehrbeeke runs through the meadow-rich and tree-lined Schunteraue.

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

Water quality

The water structure quality was examined in 2011 by the Institute for Geoecology of the TU Braunschweig on behalf of the city drainage system Braunschweig. The lower course of the brook in the Schunteraue is assessed as largely “close to nature” and “moderately impaired”; the stock of reed beds and trees in particular has a positive effect. The underpass of the Braunschweig – Uelzen railway line and the state road in a pipe represents an ecological obstacle to passage. The sections in the forest with their straight lines and poorly structured but overgrown banks are rated as "significantly impaired", but some sections have flood zones and correct the overall impression upwards.

Web links

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

• Map of the Kehrbeeke at openstreetmap.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} LGLN : Topographic Map 1: 50,000 , as of 2000, CD-ROM Top50 Viewer . The source location is taken from the water quality report of the TU BS, but not handed down.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Institute for Geoecology, TU Braunschweig, Thomas Ols Eggers: Water structure and water quality studies in flowing waters in the area of ​​the city of Braunschweig, annual report 2011. Braunschweig 2011, p. 27 ff.
3. ↑ NLWKN : List of areas for the Lower Saxony Hydrographic Map , as of 2010, p. 73. FV_Weser.pdf, retrieved from Umwelt.niedersachsen.de on August 19, 2013.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Herbert Blume : Oker, Schunter, Wabe , in: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte, Vol. 86, Braunschweig 2005, p. 32.
5. ↑ The natural area on Schuntersiedlung-online. Retrieved January 1, 2015 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} AK (official map) on Geolife.de Navigator. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 19, 2015 ; accessed on January 10, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ TK25 on Geolife.de Navigator. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 19, 2015 ; accessed on December 31, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.