Brunnenmühlenquelle
| Brunnenmühlenquelle | ||||
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 Brunnenmühlenquelle |
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| Country or region | Heidenheim district ( Baden-Württemberg ) | |||
| Coordinates | 48 ° 39 ′ 54 ″ N , 10 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E | |||
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| geology | ||||
| Mountains | Swabian Alb | |||
| Source type | Karst spring | |||
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| River system | Danube | |||
| Receiving waters | Brenz → Danube → Black Sea | |||
| Bulk | 1500 l / s | |||
Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 54 ″ N , 10 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E
The Brunnenmühlenquelle or just Brunnenmühle is a strong karst spring near Heidenheim an der Brenz on the Swabian Alb in Baden-Württemberg .
location
The Brunnenmühlenquelle is located between Heidenheim and Mergelstetten at the foot of the right slope of the Brenz . Access to the source pot is public. The gold spring is on the opposite side of the valley .
Data
The karst spring pours out an average of around 1,500 liters of water per second (min. 500 l / s, max. 5,000 l / s) and thus even exceeds the nearby hot pot . It is the third strongest spring in the Swabian Alb and one of the most productive in Germany. Its over 100 km² underground catchment area includes the Stubental, west of Heidenheim, and extends in the west to the Alb plateau over 16 kilometers to Böhmenkirch .
history
Around 1585 the spring water from the Brunnenmühlenquelle was conveyed up to Hellenstein Castle via a wooden stick . A water wheel moved a piston that “pumped” the water to a specially built elevated tank about 100 meters high on the Schwende. The remains of this historic basin can still be seen today ( 48 ° 39 ′ 56.6 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 44.8 ″ E ). From there, the stored water flowed into the castle with a gradient of around 13 meters. Another part of the valley was used to operate four tube wells in the old town of Heidenheim. Duke Friedrich I had the water wheel torn down at the source. In 1604, the conveyor system at the Brunnenmühle was renewed, so that lead pipes were used instead of the wooden pipes that were common at the time. The water supply system was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . In 1666, the city dug eight wells into the groundwater and the well mill spring lost its importance for the Heidenheim water supply.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ third strongest source in the Swabian Alb ( memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ The history of the water supply of the city of Heidenheim