Factory Canal (Augsburg)

	Factory channel
	Data
location	Bavaria District-free city of Augsburg ;
River system	Danube
Drain over	Wertach → Lech → Danube → Black Sea
source	at the Ackermannwehr in Augsburg-Göggingen ; 48 ° 20 ′ 16 ″ N , 10 ° 51 ′ 20 ″ E
muzzle	in the Wertach and Wertach Canal Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 6 ″ N , 10 ° 52 ′ 6 ″ E 48 ° 21 ′ 6 ″ N , 10 ° 52 ′ 6 ″ E;
length	1.9 km
Right tributaries	Singold

The factory canal is an artificially created canal in Augsburg and is part of Augsburg's historical water management . It was dug in 1884 as a tap for the Wertach to supply the Göggingen twisting and sewing thread factory (ZNFG, later Ackermann-Göggingen AG). With a flow of approx. 28.5 m³ / s, it is the largest canal in Augsburg after the inlet canal and the capital stream and the United City and Provision stream in the Wolfzahnau .

It feeds (normally) other right canals of the Wertach, namely the Wertach Canal , then the Holzbach and the Senkelbach . Part of the Wertach Canal in turn feeds a canal to the left of the Wertach, the Mühlbach , which continues downhill to become the Hettenbach. At its end, the factory sewer can also be wholly or partially returned to the Wertach via control systems, for example for maintenance work on the Wertach Canal.

Course of the factory canal

The factory canal branches off to the right of the Wertach shortly after the bridge on Wellenburger Strasse at Ackermannwehr. It borders the present-day Augsburg district of Göggingen in the northwest. West of the factory channel between the Wertach and the channel is under landscape protection standing forest " Gögginger Wäldle " and the Gögginger air bath, an outdoor area with swimming in the channel for recovery of the population.

After he has passed the former factory, where the Fabrikkanal hydropower station is today, the Singold flows towards him from the right . Since the flow of the factory canal exceeds that of the Singold (approx. 2 m³ / s) many times over, this is considered to be the inflow and the point as its current mouth. The factory canal then leads past the Göggingen cemetery and under the B17 . At today's Kulperhütte at the northern end of the "island" bordered by the river and canal, it divides into two arms. His left arm flows back into the Wertach as an overflow, his right arm is the Wertach Canal .

The Ackermann weir with the two locks on the right, where the factory canal begins
The beginning of the factory canal after the weir
The Gögginger air bath on the factory canal
The mouth of the Singold in the factory canal
The factory canal, to the left of it the Gögginger Wäldle
The end of the factory canal at the "Kulperhütte" beer garden

Wertach Canal

The beginning of the Wertach Canal

The Wertach power plant was built at Schießstättenstraße 19 in 1920/1921 to supply the Augsburg tram with energy. It is fed by the Wertach Canal, which was completed in 1920 and which was branched off from the factory canal. The Wertach Canal flows directly to the right of the Wertach past the Rosenau towards the power plant.

Originally, the Mühlbach branched off to the left of the Wertach on Luitpoldstrasse. It flows through Pfersee and is called Hettenbach on its lower course. The fact that the Wertach was lowered several meters in the 19th century made it necessary to feed the Mühlbach from the higher-flowing Wertach Canal instead of the Wertach. This took place in the form of a culvert , which crosses the river at the level of the Pfersee local railway bridge under its gravel bed from right to left and reappears in Pfersee.

After the power plant, the Wertach Canal continues to flow parallel to the Wertach until it splits just before today's Bürgermeister-Ackermann-Straße. His left arm flows back into the Wertach at the former Goggelesbrücke . His right one is now called Holzbach .

The Wertach Canal is also an important flood protection measure for the Pfersee district opposite. It greatly reduces the amount of water in the Wertach at this point.

Holzbach and Senkelbach

The Holzbach on Holzbachstrasse

The Senkelbach

The Senkelbach was originally the lower reaches of the Singold and drove many mills on its banks. After the Singold broke out into the Wertach at Göggingen in 1588 during a strong flood in Wertach, its old lower course fell dry and these mills ran out of water. This is why this former Singold lower course was given a new flow through a tap dug in 1589 from the Wertach, the Holzbach. At this point the Wertach was dammed with the Goggeles weir to supply the Holzbach brook.

The Holzbach, in turn, was connected to the Wertach Canal in 1920, when the Wertach was lowered and the Wertach Canal was built. It crosses under the tracks of the Augsburg – Ulm and Augsburg – Nördlingen railway lines , flows laterally past the site of the Augsburger Plärrer and becomes the Senkelbach under Langenmantelstraße without any opening.

Originally the Senkelbach flowed into the Lech . The Lech and the Wertach were so changeable at that time that their confluence in the area of today's Wolfzahnau always took on new forms. An engraving by Wolfgang Kilian from the 17th century shows that the Senkelbach flowed north of the city with part of the Augsburg Lech canals and then divided into two arms, of which only the right into the Lech, the left into the Wertach emptied, each shortly before the union of the two rivers. On a map from 1849, the Senkelbach meets the Stadtbach ; it then receives further inflows from the Lech before flowing into the Wertach. Today the Senkelbach no longer takes up the Lech Canal and flows into the Wertach after the Augsburg balloon factory .

Individual evidence

↑ Landschaftspflegeverband Stadt Augsburg eV: Bach profile factory canal
^ Martin Kluger: Hydraulic engineering and hydropower, drinking water and fountain art in Augsburg . 1st edition. Context Verlag, Augsburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-939645-72-6 , p. 78 .
^ Martin Kluger: Historical water management and water art in Augsburg. Canal landscape, water towers, fountain art and water power . 2nd Edition. Context Verlag, Augsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-939645-50-4 , p. 44 .
^ Map in Martin Kluger: Hydraulic engineering and hydropower, drinking water and fountain art in Augsburg . 1st edition. Context Verlag, Augsburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-939645-72-6 , p. 104 .
^ Martin Kluger: Historical water management and water art in Augsburg. Canal landscape, water towers, fountain art and water power . 2nd Edition. Context Verlag, Augsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-939645-50-4 , p. 40 .
^ Map on Commons

Web links

Location of the factory canal and its continuations on the BayernAtlas.

[1] Landschaftspflegeverband Stadt Augsburg eV: Bach profile factory canal

[2] Martin Kluger: Hydraulic engineering and hydropower, drinking water and fountain art in Augsburg . 1st edition. Context Verlag, Augsburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-939645-72-6 , p. 78 .

[3] Martin Kluger: Historical water management and water art in Augsburg. Canal landscape, water towers, fountain art and water power . 2nd Edition. Context Verlag, Augsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-939645-50-4 , p. 44 .

[4] Map in Martin Kluger: Hydraulic engineering and hydropower, drinking water and fountain art in Augsburg . 1st edition. Context Verlag, Augsburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-939645-72-6 , p. 104 .

[5] Martin Kluger: Historical water management and water art in Augsburg. Canal landscape, water towers, fountain art and water power . 2nd Edition. Context Verlag, Augsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-939645-50-4 , p. 40 .

[6] Map on Commons