Hainröder Bach (South Harz)
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Hainröder Bach Ankenbach |
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 Ankenbach (Hainröder Bach) |
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| location | Mansfeld-Südharz district , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | |
| River system | Hainröder Bach | |
| River basin district | Elbe | |
| Headwaters | in the Biosphere Reserve Karstlandschaft Südharz on the eastern slope of the Hohe Kopf | |
| Source height | approx. 440 m | |
| Sinkhole | Ankenbergschwinde coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 45 " N , 11 ° 11 ′ 8" E 51 ° 29 ′ 45 " N , 11 ° 11 ′ 8" E
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The Hainröder Bach (also Ankenbach ) is a karst brook about 1 km long in the southern Harz Zechstein belt . It is located near the southern Harz district of Hainrode in the Saxony-Anhalt district of Mansfeld-Südharz in the nature reserve Gipskarstlandschaft Questenberg, where it disappears in the gypsum underground. It flows underground to the line .
Geographical location
The Reesenbach (also Riesengraben) and the Ellerbach arise north of Hainrode (southern Harz) on the eastern slope of the Hohen Kopf (457 m). Their confluence in Hainrode creates the Hainröder Bach and initially flows to the southeast. About 800 m behind Hainrode it bends to the east on the Ankenberg. After another 300 m, the small Harz brook disappears in the karst subsoil of the Sangerhaus anhydrite on the northern slope of the Ankenberg in a wall shrinkage with an upstream quarry and continues its way underground to the Leine (helmets) .
Ankenberg shrinkage
During a strong thunderstorm in 1830, the Hainröder brook brought so much water and material with it that the old brook shrinkage in the basin between Eichenberg and Ankenberg was spilled and the water could no longer run off. The inhabitants, who owned the surrounding land, then dug a ditch to the next neighboring sinkhole on Ankenberg and let the water flow into it. In the course of a few years, this place enlarged through leaching so that the Ankenbergschwinde, a stream shrinkage the size of the Dinsterbachschwinde , arose. The Ankenberg cave behind the Bruchhalde was accessible for some time (2007) in dry conditions. The Schwinde has been a nature reserve since 1989 .
