Gönnerbach

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gönnerbach
Gönnerbach in the Nerkewitzer Grund

Gönnerbach in the Nerkewitzer Grund

Data
location on the Ilm-Saale-Platte near Jena
River system Elbe
Drain over Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source at fourteen saints
Source height 339  m above sea level NN
muzzle at Neuengönna in the Saale coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 57 ″  N , 11 ° 39 ′ 44 ″  E 50 ° 58 ′ 57 ″  N , 11 ° 39 ′ 44 ″  E
Mouth height 132  m above sea level NN
Height difference 207 m
Bottom slope approx. 21 ‰
length approx. 10 km
Catchment area approx. 19.6 km²
Big cities Jena
Communities Lehesten , Hainichen , Neuengönna

The Gönnerbach (also called Gönnabach , Gönnaer Bach or just Gönna ) is a left tributary of the Saale in the Saale-Holzland district ( Thuringia ). Its catchment area is the Gönnatal .

course

The source area of ​​the Gönnerbach is at Vierzehnheiligen . It flows on through the places Krippendorf , Altengönna , Lehesten , Nerkewitz and Neuengönna . Its mouth is not far from the tracks in the Saale.

origin of the name

A pago Ginnaha , in which the village of Nerkewitz was located, is already mentioned in an imperial charter from 1044 . In 1284 the rivum, qui Ginna vocatur served as a positional relationship for the Hainich forest. The brook and landscape name means "yawning gorge".

additional

The Gönnerbach used to drive two mills in the Nerkewitzer Grund . Above Nerkewitz, the stream is dammed into a lake, the Nerkewitz reservoir . This offers many leisure and recreational opportunities such as fishing, camping and ice skating in winter.

swell

  1. Detlef Ignasiak: On the Saale and in the Holzland - A cultural-historical guide through the surroundings of the university town of Jena , quartus-Verlag, Jena 1997, ISBN 3-931505-17-0