Hammergraben (Cottbus)
The Hammergraben ( Lower Sorbian Goramśica ) is a moat , which was built in the 16th century, when the feeders for the then 5,000 acre large Peitz ponds . Its course begins at the large Spreewehr in Cottbus , where part of the Spree is diverted to the right. The water was and is, especially in the area around Peitz , sometimes called Hammerstrom .
The Hammergraben branches off before the weir and flows around a kilometer to the east. It is crossed by the federal highway 169 towards Guben and the Cottbus – Guben railway line. After a change of direction of 90 ° to the north, he crosses the Hammergrabensiedlung , a residential area of Cottbus, and then passes Merzdorf . About 700 meters after crossing under a road bridge west of Merzdorf, the Hammergraben originally split after it had taken up the water from the Tranitz river shortly before . Not far from here, the old course turned again to the east, in order to finally supply the Lakoma pond landscape with water. After a military he takes today by the devastation on the part of the Cottbus-Nord , an abrupt end.
The new Hammergraben makes a slight left turn at the same point in order to finally flow parallel to the B 169 on the west side of the former village of Lakoma . Here the Hammergraben has more of the appearance of a canal and then flows back into the original Hammergraben course after a good four kilometers at Maus . The Peitz pond landscape traversed and supplied with water, the trench meets the southern edge of Peitz and there turn towards west. In this bend there is an island surrounded by water and a branch canal begins towards the east to the Jänschwalde power station . In the further course of the main trench, it passes the Laßzinswiesen and the village of Maiberg , only to meet the Malxe about five kilometers further west of the village . Both bodies of water unite there to form the Great River .
The Hammergraben is a listed building from the former village of Lakoma to the confluence with the Malxe near Fehrow .
Individual evidence
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↑ Street directory of the city of Cottbus: ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2009 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. 1) At Hammergraben → Pśi Goramśicy 2) At Hammerstrom → Pśi rěce Goramśica 3) Hammergrabengrund → Goramśicowa niž
- ^ Ernst von Schönfeldt: The district of Cottbus with the Spreewald . Art print and publishing office, Magdeburg 1933, ISBN 978-3-938555-23-1 , p. 62 .
- ↑ Federal Agency for Nature Conservation : Location of the Hammergraben according to Geospatial services. Protected areas in Germany. Retrieved May 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Hammergraben at the BLDAM's HiDA4web
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Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 16 ″ N , 14 ° 15 ′ 39 ″ E