Bauerngraben (New Luppe)

Peasant ditch
the Bauerngraben in the Burgaue (1907) and the Neue Luppe (red dashed line)
Data
location	Saxony
River system	Elbe
Drain over	New Luppe  → White Elster  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source	between Lindenau and Leutzsch 51 ° 20 ′ 43 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 34 ″  E
muzzle	at Lützschena-Stahmeln in the Neue Luppe Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 15 ″  N , 12 ° 17 ′ 17 ″  E 51 ° 22 ′ 15 ″  N , 12 ° 17 ′ 17 ″  E
length	4.8 km
Left tributaries	Burgauenbach
Big cities	Leipzig

The Bauerngraben is a left tributary of the Neue Luppe . It flows exclusively in the Leipzig city ​​area and is a water body of the second order under water law .

The Bauerngraben rises in Lindenau in an allotment garden near Rietschelstrasse and is fed by several underground road gullies. It initially runs north, receives about 0.2 m³ / s of water from the Burgauenbach at Gustav-Esche-Straße in Leutzsch and then changes its direction of flow to the northwest. The Bauerngraben maintains this until it reaches the former river bed of the Luppe north of the Alfred Kunze Sports Park , which it flows through over a length of 450 meters.

Then the Bauerngraben divides into two arms. While the Alte Luppe , which begins here, continues to follow the former bed of the Luppe, the Bauerngraben branches off to the right to the north and, after crossing under the Burgauenbach, flows northwest through the Burgaue . About 200 meters before its confluence with the Neue Luppe , the Bauerngraben takes in the Burgauenbach, although it has a much larger drain here.

Before the Neue Luppe was built in the 1930s, the Bauerngraben flowed into the Hundewasser , which is a former tributary of the White Elster . It only flowed on the right side of the ridge and was therefore much shorter than it is today. Its upper course was not referred to as the Bauerngraben and flowed separately into the Luppe in the area where it now branches off.

See also

• Leipzig water junction

literature

• Restoration of former watercourses of the Luppe, part 2, bgmr landscape architects, 2009 ( PDF file; 9.7 MB )

Web links

Commons : Bauerngraben  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (Neue Luppe subsequently drawn in), excerpt from sheet 10 (from 1907), Topopgraphische Karte Sachsen 1: 25000 (measuring table sheets), department for land survey of the Königl. Saxon. General Staff, Leipzig, on: deutschefotothek.de
2. ↑ ^{a b} Leipzig River II. Order ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Restoration of the former rivers of the Luppe. (Section 2.1 Current water situation), Part 1, bgmr Landschaftsarchitekten, 2006 ( PDF file; 13.7 MB )
4. ↑ Topographic map of Saxony 1: 25000 (measuring table sheets), department for land survey of the Königl. Saxon. General Staff, Leipzig, sheet 10 (1907), on: deutschefotothek.de