Hostage (river)

hostage
The hostage between Zscherben and Merseburg
Data
location	Saxony-Anhalt , Germany
River system	Elbe
Drain over	Klia  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source	at Müelte 51 ° 16 ′ 57 ″  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 54 ″  E
Source height	145  m above sea level NN
muzzle	Gotthard pond in Merseburg Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 9 ″  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 31 ″  E 51 ° 21 ′ 9 ″  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 31 ″  E
Mouth height	85  m above sea level NN
Height difference	60 m
Bottom slope	approx. 2.6 ‰
length	approx. 23.3 km
Discharge at the Frankleben A Eo gauge : 208 km² Location: 8.1 km above the mouth	NNQ (April 3, 1975) MNQ 1964/2010 MQ 1964/2010 Mq 1964/2010 MHQ 1964/2010 HHQ (June 22, 1975)	0 l / s 157 l / s 517 l / s 2.5 l / (s km²) 1.9 m³ / s 8.6 m³ / s

The Geisel is a tributary of the Saale in Saxony-Anhalt and namesake of the Geiseltal and Geiseltalsee.

course

The hostage rises in Sankt Micheln , a district of the city of Müuellen . The Geiselquelle is known as the raid spring and was once one of the largest springs in central Germany. It arises from the overflow water of an underground groundwater basin, which lies below the Muschelkalk heights of St. Micheln. The source is located at a geographical altitude of 145  m above sea level. NN . The course of the river is almost 24 km long and flows into the Gotthard pond in Merseburg , whose outlet, the Klia, flows into the Saale north of the Dompropstei. Here the geographical height is 86  m above sea level. NN .

history

The original mouth of the Geisel in the Saale was south of today's Neumarktbrücke, for example in the Oelgrube area ('Aalgrube'). With the settlement of the valley between Domberg and Sixtihügel, the hostage running through marshy terrain was canalized and piped in the 19th century. This old drain can still be seen at the southeast corner of the Gotthard pond. Numerous water mills were operated along the fish-rich hostage. Its course was relocated for the first time in 1540 in order to ensure the smooth operation of the mills thanks to the gradation. Because of the progressive brown coal mining in the open surface mining , which the emergence of Geiseltalsee led the hostage run from 1938 to 1965 was at the exit of the city Muecheln flipped four times. There are no more mills today; the hostage had little water in 2011. Fish only live below the source as far as Ortisei in the water.

On the banks

On the right bank of the Geisel, about 1 km below their origin, the 12 Apostle springs arise, through which some trout ponds flow. The church and the moated castle of Sankt Ulrich, which has a baroque castle garden , are located by the stream . A hiking trail leads along the Geisel and is marked as the “Mühlenwanderweg”.

Origin of name

This article or section needs to be revised:
Why should a brook in the German or earlier Slavic-speaking area now be derived from an almost identical Latin name for goat? In addition, gezle doesn’t look very Latin. In any case, the PONS does not know the alleged Latin word, but of course offers the common Latin word for the goat / goat, namely capra . Of course, you would also have to look in the Quantity Güthling. A Gezle with Anfangsmajuskel the way, is very, very difficult to imagine; it is well known that Latin has no regular noun capitalization. This then casts doubt on the basic linguistic knowledge of the etymological source author or that of the author here to correctly reproduce what has been read.
It is difficult, however, to assume that the alleged Latin word is similar in sound to the German word for goat. But even the Grimm dictionary has no related Latin word that even remotely resembled gezle . Finally, if the basic word were the ahd. Lôh , what then is the defining word?
I'll leave the nasty typo, which has apparently not been fixed for four years, in there, perhaps also a sign of the care taken for this article or for the critical attention of those who have gone through the section on etymology since then. If there were such readers.
Please help to improve it , and then remove this flag.

The name of the stream comes from the Latin Gezle , which means something like goat or goat . The Old High German -lôh , piece of forest, is also possible as a basic word, which was then weakened to -l at an early stage.

Web links

Commons : Geisel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information about the river and the valley

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The length of the hostage of 23.3 km was measured in the
   Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
   from the source in Sankt Micheln (street An der Quelle ) and from the street Wenden in Müelte via the one from here from the eastward arm, i.e. not over the Geiseltalsee.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Level: Frankleben ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: flood forecast.sachsen-anhalt.de 
3. ↑ Explore Geiseltal. Boulder garden "Nordic Plateau" ( Memento from March 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
4. ↑ Elfriede Ulbricht: The river basin of the Thuringian Saale. A name-based investigation (= German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history. No. 2, ISSN  0070-3893 ). Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1957, (at the same time: Leipzig, University, dissertation, 1954).