Giessen (river name)

Giessen , or Gießen written, also with an s, is an old German hydronym for slow-flowing water with no particular gradient.

etymology

The word comes from Old High German  giozo ' moving water ', Middle High German  gieze 'deep, slowly flowing river arm '. The Low German variant is likely to be gête , 'low waterway'.

It is also still fachsprachlich alive, for, clear oxbow '(in the sense flows through as yet, not yet degraded to murky pond) or for running accompanying today often vollkanalisierten source streams and Kleingerinne of flood plains and wetlands .

Spread and examples

The word is naturally at home in the entire German-speaking area, but is only more common locally.

When casting groundwater headwaters are in floodplains designated, such as the southern Upper Rhine between Breisach and Honau (10 km north of Kehl ) and in the canton of Aargau floodplain on the Aare such as Rohrer Giessen . They are fed by the rich aquifers of the river areas (see Upper Rhine aquifer ). The water of the Giessen is rich in lime, very low in nutrients and oxygen and, with relatively constant water flow, cool even in summer.

The Giessen on the Rhine are more on the edge of the Rheinaue and are only partly included in the flood dynamics of the Rhine.

The Taubergießen nature reserve is named after such a watering.

Further north in the Rhine Valley, in the Karlsruhe area , Giessen describes a narrow, deep arm of the Rhine with high banks and without sand or gravel banks.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-311033859-1 , p. 174, column 2
2. ↑ Casting in the meadow landscape on the Aare ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Richard Pott, Dominique Remy: Waters of the inland. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-8001-5644-3 , p. 141 f;
   Elmar Briem: The water landscapes of Baden-Württemberg. (= Above-ground waters, aquatic ecology , volume 53) State Institute for Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg , Karlsruhe 1999, p. 43 f. ( Download )
4. ↑ Ernst Schneider: The Karlsruhe natural landscape as reflected in the field names. In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 108 (1963), ISSN  0044-2607 , pp. 134-184, here p. 139.