Erlenbrunnenbach
| Erlenbrunnenbach | ||
 Origin of the alder fountain |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | DE : 2642338 | |
| location | Germany | |
| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Blies → Saar → Moselle → Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | Erlenbrunnen, dried up in Pfaffental 49 ° 19 ′ 20 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 14 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 290 m | |
| muzzle | Formerly at the Neunkirchen waterworks in the Blies Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '25 " N , 7 ° 14' 0" E 49 ° 20 '25 " N , 7 ° 14' 0" E |
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| Mouth height | approx. 233 m above sea level NN | |
| Height difference | approx. 57 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 9.9 ‰ | |
| length | 5.7 km | |
| Catchment area | 13.5 km² | |
The Erlenbrunnenbach is a 5.7 km long right tributary of the Blies in the eastern Saarland , which formerly flowed into the Blies. Because of the abstraction of groundwater for the city of Neunkirchen (Saar), the stream has dried up after about 2.2 km since the end of the 20th century and no longer reaches its lower reaches. In the 16th century, the lower course of the brook was called Enbach. In the 20th century the brook was called Erlenbrunner or Mutterbach. Furpach , Neunkirchen-Kohlhof and Ludwigsthal are in the catchment area of the stream .
course
The Erlenbrunnenbach rises west of Furpach am Erlenbrunnen at about 290 m above sea level. The fill from the alder fountain was collected in an artificial basin that was used as a cattle trough in the 18th century. During renovation work in 2009, the basin, which had already been modified several times, was filled in. The brook runs in an easterly direction and after approx. 1.8 km reaches the Furpacher Weiher, emerges from this into the Pfaffental and seeps away after approx. 2.2 km before the A 8 federal motorway . In the lower reaches, which used to flow in a northerly direction, the valley has been greatly changed by the construction of the Neunkirchen-Wellesweiler motorway feeder. Until the 20th century, the stream flowed into the Blies at the Neunkirchen waterworks from the right.
Usage history
In the 16th century the border between Nassau-Saarbrücken and Pfalz-Zweibrücken crossed the brook twice. In 1564 the geographer Tilemann Stella named in his description and map of the offices of Zweibrücken and Kirkel in the lower course of the brook two ponds in the Zweibrücker area, the Mittelst Hirtzwag and the Unterst Hirtzwag . Regarding the Bach himself he stated
“ The Enbach rises in the Furtbach forest and falls through the shepherd's car into the Blise onfher vonn Welsweiller, it is long [in Zweibrücker area] 1200. "
The two ponds in the Nassau area, the Furpacher Wag and the Alte Wag , were also drawn in by Stella, but not described in detail. Today only the Furpacher Weiher remains. In 1968 the Biehlersweiler was re-established as a fish pond on a brook flowing into the Erlenbrunnenbach from the right.
In 1564, Stella drew a branch channel to the mill pond of the Lautzweiler mill in the lowest section of the stream. Below the Lautzweiler mill, immediately before reaching the Blies, the stream coming from the Kasbruch flowed from the left into the Erlenbrunnenbach. At the place of the Lautzweiler mill, the Wellesweiler mill later rose. This was bought with the water rights in the Kasbruch and Hirschberg in 1874 by the municipality of Neunkirchen, demolished and the Neunkirchen waterworks built in its place, which is today in the Kasbruch, in the valley of the Erlenbrunnenbach, and since these springs cannot meet the city's water needs, also promotes groundwater in the Mutterbachtal . During the territorial and administrative reform in Saarland in 1974 , the municipal boundary between Neunkirchen and Bexbach was redefined and all the area to the right of the Blies that had previously belonged to Bexbach was added to the city of Neunkirchen.
Individual evidence
- ↑ WFD Saarland surface water bodies - target achievement (PDF; 58 kB)
- ↑ Draft of the management plan 2015 , (PDF 1.46 MB)
- ↑ a b Tilemann Stella: Thorough and thorough description of the baider ambter Zweibrücken and Kirckel, as they were located in 1564 . Editor: Eginhard Scharf. Historischer Verein, Zweibrücken 1993, p. 14, p. 151. ISBN 3-924171-15-7
- ^ Rolf Spang : Die Gewässernamen des Saarlandes , Saarbrücken 1982, p. 187. ISBN 3-921646-45-6