Burgaue
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The Burgaue is a forest area in the north-west of Leipzig .
It forms its own district (official code 0403), which borders the Stahmeln and Wahren districts in the north, the Möckern district in the east, the Leutzsch and Böhlitz-Ehrenberg districts in the south and the Lützschena district in the west .
The Burgaue forms the northwestern section of the Elster-Luppe-Aue in Leipzig. The natural boundary of the Burgaue was originally formed by the dog water in the north and the Luppe in the south. The latter is sometimes called Nahle today, resembles a drainage ditch elsewhere or has fallen completely dry.
history
On May 6, 1367, the city of Leipzig bought the 500 acres (= 2,767,115 m² = approx. 277 ha ) large forest, then called Luch , in order to be able to supply its citizens with firewood. The name Bürgeraue is later found on maps .
From an administrative point of view, the Burgaue formed its own estate district, in which on December 1, 1900 only the forest warden lived with his family, a total of four people.
On April 1, 1925, the Burgaue manor district was incorporated into the city of Leipzig.
natural reserve
On March 30, 1961, the Burgaue was placed under nature protection for the first time on an area of 43.2 hectares. Today the Burgaue nature reserve covers an area of approx. 270 hectares.
From December 1997 to March 1999 a new, partly artificial, partly natural watercourse was created in the Leutzscher Holz and the Burgaue. The so-called Burgauenbach , with a total length of 5.374 km, partly uses the dry oxbow lakes and flood channels of historical waters and is a second order water body . The cost of the renaturation amounted to 1.5 million DM.
Web links
- The Burgaue in the Leipzig Lexicon
- The NSG Burgaue on the education and research portal Leipziger-Auwald.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ (Neue Luppe and Nahle subsequently drawn in), excerpt from sheet 10 (from 1907), Topographical Map Saxony 1: 25000 (measuring table sheets), department for land survey of the Königl. Saxon. General Staff, Leipzig, on: deutschefotothek.de
- ↑ Leipzig Lexicon: Burgauenbach
- ↑ Leipzig rivers, 2nd order
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