Gonna (helmets)

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Gonna
The Gonna in the north of Sangerhausen

The Gonna in the north of Sangerhausen

Data
location Saxony-Anhalt , Germany
River system Elbe
Drain over Helme  → Unstrut  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source north of Grillenberg
51 ° 32 ′ 54 ″  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 32 ″  E
Source height 396  m above sea level NN
muzzle southwest of Sangerhausen in the Helme coordinates: 51 ° 26 '28 "  N , 11 ° 16' 8"  E 51 ° 26 '28 "  N , 11 ° 16' 8"  E
Mouth height 127  m above sea level NN
Height difference 269 ​​m
Bottom slope 16 ‰
length 17 km
Medium-sized cities Sangerhausen

The Gonna is a left tributary of the Helme in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt . The first written mention comes from the year 1274 when Gunno .

Origin of name

The origin of the name is not clearly established. The basic word is a -aha shortened by weakening it to the final -a, a variant of -au . The final word could be a Norse gunnr (fight) or a quin . A non-German origin would also be possible, possibly Latin . Gonna takes its name from the Gonna, which rises in the fire wood above Grillenberg and on which it lies. The brook name is of course the older one. It carried over to the settlement made on its banks. It is assumed that the names of the streams, rivers, mountains, and mountain ranges from pre-Germanic times (before 1000 BC) come from the time of the Celts, at least the male river names (e.g. Rhine) are seen as such. The oldest form of name for the brook and the place was "Cunnaha", as the village is documented for the first time in the tithe register of 899 of the Hessian monastery Hersfeld, to which the local area was for the most part subject to tithing. The ending -a from Old High German a, aa, ah, aha, acha, a, `awa, aw, au, ow, owa, Middle High German ahe, a, (Latin aqua) means water, river, floodplain. The defining word Cunn was probably derived from the Celtic gun, gin, günne, meadow, which provides food, or from gun = flood, fast river, Old High German (until 1159 AD) unnen, unnan = günnen, günne, gönne, gonne , gonna = meadow, wonder, bliss = forest pasture. Cunnaha 1359, 1488 Gunna, today Gonna, in the popular dialect "Jonne" means meadow water, water (brook) that flows through a meadow. (Excerpt from the Chronicle of Gonna)

course

The Gonna rises between Grillenberg and Wippra , south of the horses' heads and flows south of Sangerhausen into the Helme .

Tributaries

The Gonna has a large number of small and very small tributaries. Only those with names and their own larger tributaries are listed.

Places on the river

Web links

Commons : Gonna  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Stadtplandienst.de and amtl. Topogr. map

swell

  • Elfriede Ulbricht: The river basin of the Thuringian Saale . 1st edition. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1957.