Old Pleisse
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Alte Pleiße Kuhstrangwasser |
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 The Alte Pleiße (shown in red) in the Leipzig water junction |
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| location | Saxony , Germany | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | White Elster → Saale → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source | As a branch of the Pleiße south of the Scheibenholz horse racing track, 51 ° 19 ′ 13 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 37 ″ E |
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| muzzle | In the area of today's Leipzig city harbor south of the Schreberbad in the White Elster Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 16 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 37 ″ E 51 ° 20 ′ 16 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 37 ″ E
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| length | about 3 km | |
 Course of the Alte Pleiße around 1780 (north is top left) |
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The Alte Pleiße (also Kuhstrang or Kuhstrangwasser ) was next to the Rödel one of the natural estuary arms of the Pleiße in the Leipzig water junction .
history
As early as the 13th century, the Pleißemühlgraben branched off to the right of the Pleiße . Since a large part of the Pleissewater was directed through the Mühlgraben, the natural course lost its importance and was first called Alte Pleiße and later Kuhstrang or Kuhstrangwasser, while the Mühlgraben was called Pleiße. In the second half of the 19th century, the Alte Pleiße was filled in and its floodplain was increasingly built on, and the section from the Connewitz weir to the Mühlgraben branch was added to the latter.
course
The Pleiße was originally divided in the area of today's Connewitz weir into the Rödel and the Pleiße, which flowed further north to the Mühlgraben branch south of the present-day Scheibenholz racecourse . Maintaining the northerly direction, the Alte Pleiße then ran through the areas of today's Musikerviertel , Johannapark and Bachviertel . About a kilometer from its mouth, it flowed a few hundred meters to the east, and then swung back to the northwest in the area of today's Johannapark. In the vicinity of today's city port south of the Schreberbad , the Alte Pleiße finally flows into the White Elster (now called Elstermühlgraben ) after about three kilometers .
swell
- Topographic map of Saxony 1: 25000 (equidistant map and measuring table sheets from 1879–1942), edited in the topographic bureau of the Royal General Staff, Leipzig: Giesecke & Devrient, on: deutschefotothek.de
- Miles sheets from Saxony 1: 12000 “Berliner Exemplar”, recorded 1780–1806 under the direction of Friedrich Ludwig Aster, box M 14433, sheets B18 and B27, on: deutschefotothek.de
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Johannapark Stadt Leipzig, on: leipzig.de
- ↑ a b New findings on Leipzig's urban development Stefan Koch, 2007, on: opus-bayern.de (pdf; 2.5 MB)