Butter water
| Butter water | ||
 A pair of mallards in the butter water in Wilthen |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | DE : 582178 | |
| location | Saxony | |
| River system | Spree | |
| Drain over | Spree → Havel → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source | at the Vorwerk Tautewalde 51 ° 6 ′ 1 ″ N , 14 ° 21 ′ 10 ″ E |
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| Source height | 335 m | |
| muzzle | south of Rodewitz in the Spree Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '58 " N , 14 ° 26' 49" E 51 ° 5 '58 " N , 14 ° 26' 49" E |
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| Mouth height | 238 m | |
| Height difference | 97 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 11 ‰ | |
| length | approx. 8.5 km | |
| Left tributaries | Irgersdorfer water, Baschonken water, Sonnenberger water | |
The butterwater is a left tributary of the upper Spree near Rodewitz in the Saxon district of Bautzen with a length of 8.5 kilometers.
description
The butter water rises on the moist meadows of the Tautewalde farm on the southern slope of the Großer Picho ( 499 m ). The stream flows from the Tautewalder watershed, which separates the catchment areas of the Spree and Wesenitz , through the flat Tautewalder valley basin to the east and takes in further spring water from the northern slopes of the Dahrener Berg ( 491 m ) and the Weifaer Höhe ( 504 m ). The stream then feeds the fish ponds of the Bautzen Cathedral Monastery and flows through Wilthen , where its valley deepens and widens.
From Niederwilthen to the estuary, the butter water flows south of the Mönchswalder Berg ( 447 m ) and the Sonnenberg ( 384 m ) in numerous meanders eastwards, in Niederwilthen and Kleinpostwitz there are short narrow valley sections. Between Niederwilthen and Kleinpostwitz, the Bautzen – Bad Schandau railway bridges the butter water on the 123 m long Wilthener Viaduct. East of Kleinpostwitz, the Butterwassertal widens to a marshy meadow, which is regularly flooded during floods. At Sonnenberg there is a swamp known as Baschonken ( Sorbian bažonki for small swamps ). The stream then flows south of the Hofeberg ( 284 m ) through the pond meadows, where it used to feed the two ponds of the Rodewitz manor and is crossed by State Road 116 between Kirschau and Rodewitz . In the southern corridors of Rodewitz and southwest of Bederwitz , the butter water flows into the Spree.
Tributaries
The main tributaries of the butterwater flow in on the left and drain the western part of the northern mountain range of the Lausitzer Bergland to the south. These include, as the most important tributary, the Irgersdorfer Wasser, which flows into Niederwilthen, as well as the Baschonkenwasser and Sonnenberger Wasser near Sonnenberg. From the northern slopes of the second mountain range, only a few nameless streams flow into the butterwater at the upper reaches; from Wilthen onwards their outflows collect in the Pilke .
fauna and Flora
In the urban area of Wilthen, the stream is partially piped. From Niederwilthen on, the original bank vegetation of black alder and broken willow with ash , norway maple , pedunculate oak and bird cherry has been preserved down the stream . Along the lower reaches of the predominantly grows rauhaarige chervil , which is no longer found in the valleys north of Mönchwald train, and the spiked drift Wurz , the Sweet Spurge , the forest chickweed and forest gold star . The southernmost occurrence of the Atlantic sheath gold star is located on a section of the bank above Kleinpostwitz . On the right side undercut slope east of Klein Postwitz grows in the shade of a nearby corridor on cherry Auer forest mop of a population of forest Geißbartes and Columbine Meadow Rue .
Since the end of the 19th century, the butter water was extremely contaminated by the sewage from the Wilthen industrial companies. In the 1960s, a sewage treatment plant was therefore built on the eastern outskirts of Wilthen. The "Butterwasserlied" describes the earlier state of the brook.
Origin of name
When the brook was still clear, the Wilthen peasant women are said to have used the cold water to cool the butter they sold on the Bautzner market.
Say of "eternal thirst"
A regional legend tells of a young woman from Wilthen who suffered from severe thirst during her confinement. After the midwife refused to give her water, she died of excruciating thirst. Since then she has been said to appear every day at lunchtime on the spring meadow of the butterwater as a white woman who wanders across the meadow to the spring, tries in vain to reach the water and finally disappears with a sigh.
literature
- Around Bautzen and Schirgiswalde (= values of the German homeland . Volume 12). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, pp. 156–157.
