Elte (river)

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Elte
At the Rimbachsmühle near Lauchröden.

At the Rimbachsmühle near Lauchröden.

Data
Water code EN : 4158
location Thuringia , Germany
River system Weser
Drain over Werra  → Weser  → North Sea
source southeast of Etterwinds
50 ° 52 ′ 37 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 14 ″  E
Source height approx.  413  m above sea level NN 
muzzle For leeks in the Werra coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 45 ″  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 25 ″  E 50 ° 59 ′ 45 ″  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 25 ″  E
Mouth height 204  m above sea level NN 
Height difference approx. 209 m
Bottom slope approx. 9.1 ‰
length 22.9 km
Catchment area 81 km²
Left tributaries Bach from the Gurgelswand (3.7 km; with a left tributary from the Hoffmanngrund), Eckardtshäuser Bach (2.6 km), Left tributary from Förtha (4.2 km), Herbigsgraben, Specke, Dunkelröthe (2.4 km)
Right tributaries Schwarzer Graben (source at 565 m; 2.5 km), Bach vom Ottowald (3.7 km; right source brook), Bärenbach (2.3 km), Frommbach (4.6 km), Heidelbach (3.6 km)
Reservoirs flowed through Wilhelmsthaler See (reservoir at 313 m above sea level)
Communities Etterzüge , Wolfsburg-Unkeroda , Förtha , Oberellen , Unterellen , Lauchröden

The Elte is a 22.9 km long, right tributary of the Werra in the Thuringian Wartburg district over the right source stream Schwarzer Graben, which comes from the Kissel .

course

The river has its source in a wooded area southeast of Etterwind (municipality of Moorgrund ). It flows to Wilhelmsthal in northern direction, parallel to the ridge of the Thuringian Forest mainly in western to northwest direction, passes through the memory Wilhelmsthaler See , flows through Wolfsburg-Unkeroda and Förtha , then turns at Oberellen north flows through Unterellen and opens into Lauchröden in the Werra .

Names

Linguistically, "Alinde" refers to a body of water outside of the land populated by humans.

The current name is Elte, in the Middle Ages it is called "ellna".

Several place names were derived from this:

  • Oberellen - was first mentioned in 1075 "in Elenen". In 1121 there was already talk of a "capella in Elnde". In 1138 he was named "Elendi" and 1304 as "in Elende".
  • Unterellen - was first noted in 1318 by the note "Elende et Elende". It was mentioned in 1367 as "Nieder-Elln" and in 1369 as "Nieder-Elende".
  • Taubenelln - is a village that was documented in 1266 as Toubinelling and 1269 as "Tobenelln". In 1280 there was a “capella in Toibin Ellende”, and in 1440 Taubenellen was still inhabited. The field name Taubenellen suggests that Elte did not provide enough water for a settlement here all year round. Today the Taubeneller mill is the last reminder of the former Taubenellen settlement.
  • Epichnellen - first appears in 1378 as Ebchenellen and Epchinelne, then in 1402 as Appcheneln, 1522 as Epfigenelenn, 1527 as Epgenel, 1536 as Ebgeneln, lastly in 1571 as Eppichen eln. This name is to be interpreted from "above ells", thus "above (Ober) ellen."

Economic history

At Wilhelmsthaler See (around 1710)

In addition to a few grain mills along the course of the stream, a smelting works (Attchenbach) above Wolfsburg-Unkeroda and the Rimbachsmühle sawmill in Lauchröden were driven by him. At Wilhelmsthal Castle the brook supplies some fish farming ponds and feeds the Wilhelmsthaler See with water.

Web links

Commons : Elte  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Topographic map 1: 25,000
  2. ↑ a b c d lengths per geopath (kmz, 20 kB)
  3. ↑ River lengths in Thuringia - State Institute for Environment and Geology - 22.5 km are given here
  4. ^ Thuringian State Institute for the Environment (ed.): Area and waterway key figures (directory and map). Jena 1998. 26 pp.
  5. ^ Heinz Rosenkranz: On the history of the settlements in the Elte river basin. Manuscript, without location, without year, Oberellen local file in the Thuringian Museum Eisenach.