Hellmühler Fliess

Hellmühler Fliess
The Hellmühler Fließ at Hellmühle
Data
Water code	DE : 6962642
location	Brandenburg , Germany
River system	Or
Drain over	Finow  → Finow Canal  → Alte Oder  → Hohensaaten-Friedrichsthaler Wasserstraße  → Oder  → Stettiner Haff
source	Liepnitzsee 52 ° 45 ′ 23 ″  N , 13 ° 31 ′ 53 ″  E
Source height	approx.  50  m above sea level NN
muzzle	in Regesesee coordinates: 52 ° 45 ′ 45 "  N , 13 ° 36 ′ 43"  E 52 ° 45 ′ 45 "  N , 13 ° 36 ′ 43"  E
length	approx. 7.5 km
Catchment area	39 km²
Flowing lakes	( Liepnitzsee ), Obersee , Hellsee
Communities	Lanke , Biesenthal

The Hellmühler Fließ is a natural body of water in the Barnim district in northeast Brandenburg . In its course from west to east, the river largely follows a system of Rinnenseen formed by the Ice Age, consisting of Liepnitzsee , Obersee and Hellsee , which it drains one after the other towards the Biesenthal basin . Southwest of Biesenthal the river flows into the Regesesee , the origin of the Finow river . The total length of the Hellmühler river is around 7.5 kilometers from the outlet from the Liepnitzsee.

First mentions, etymology and mill

The courtyard of the Hellmühle from the lake side

The river was originally called Hellfließ . As far as is known, it was first mentioned in writing in 1564 with the entry in the bright flies . In 1745 the measuring table Biesenthal recorded the brook as Hellmühlsche ... Fließ . The water is named after the Hellmühle , which was mentioned in a document as early as 1347 under molendium dictum helle . Adolph Friedrich Riedel gave the document from 1347 in the Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis the heading: Margrave Ludwig united the Helle-Mühle to the council of Bernau in order to dedicate an altar with it, on October 26, 1347. The land book of Karl IV listed the mill in 1375 as dy bright mole . The name is given in the Brandenburg name book to hell . The mill operated until the 1920s. From 1950 a country school home was housed in the building complex, then a youth hostel. The building has stood empty since 1989, but is currently (2012) being restored and given a new use.

geography

source

The Hellmühler Fließ begins with the outflow at the eastern end of the Liepnitzsee. There is also the opinion that the river has its origin in a swampy area west of the lake, flows into it after about 300 meters and then flows through the entire lake from west to east. In view of the small amount of water that enters the lake from the above-mentioned headwaters, this view appears questionable.

course

In the beech gorge

At the eastern end of the lake, lined with belts of reeds and wet meadows , the river leaves the Liepnitzsee in the direction of Lanke . At Ützdorf , a district of Lanke, the stream crosses under Landesstraße  29 and passes the Ützdorf youth hostel on its left bank. After about 1.1 kilometers the stream reaches the Obersee under a bridge of the BAB 11 , which it leaves again on the opposite east bank in the locality of Lanke. After passing the village and Lanke Castle on the left bank - here the Hellmühler Fließ is an integral part of the castle park once laid out by Lenné and now overgrown - the stream reaches Hellsee.

At the southeastern end of the lake is the "Hellmühle", from which the river owes its name. In the immediate vicinity of the former mill, the stream leaves the long Hellsee and flows - initially to the north, then turning to the east - towards the Biesenthal basin. Before reaching the basin formed during the Vistula glaciation around 15,000 years ago, the Hellmühler Fliess passed the so-called "Beech Gorge". This is a Pleistocene melt channel that cut deep into the terminal moraine arc that bounds the Biesenthal Basin in the west . The gorge forms the most scenic section of the entire course of the stream and is also known by the locals as "Biesenthal Switzerland". The valley is the kingfisher's habitat .

muzzle

After passing the beech gorge, the Hellmühler Fließ reaches the Biesenthaler Becken nature reserve , which it contributes significantly to its formation as a wetland. Alder forests , wet meadows, reeds lie along its course and form the habitat for numerous plants and animals worthy of protection. Shortly before Biesenthal, the Hellmühler Fließ in the Regesesee merges with the Rüdnitzer Fließ . Together they form the source of the Finow River.

Recreational value

From Lanke along the Hellsee to the Biesenthaler Becken, the 66-Seen-Rundweg runs in the immediate vicinity of the Hellmühler River. In the area between Hellsee and Biesenthal, the Fließ is also part of one of the ten NaturaTrail routes that were developed by the Association of NaturFreunde Land Brandenburg with the aim of bringing natural treasures to life with all the senses .

literature

• Volkmar Gäbler: Wandlitzsee-Liepnitzsee hiking guide. The most beautiful hikes between Bernau and Oranienburg. Tourist Verlag GmbH, Berlin 1993/94, ISBN 3-350-00836-4 .
• Manfred Reschke: The 66 Lakes Hike. To the natural beauties around Berlin. Trescher Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89794-154-0 .
• Manfred Schmid-Myszka: Around Berlin. From Ruppin Switzerland to the Spreewald. Bergverlag Rother GmbH, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7633-4343-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis, first main part, Volume XII, Berlin 1857, p. 160
2. ↑ Brandenburg name book. Part 10. The names of the waters of Brandenburg . Founded by Gerhard Schlimpert , edited by Reinhard E. Fischer . Edited by K. Gutschmidt, H. Schmidt, T. Witkowski. Berlin contributions to name research on behalf of the Humanities Center for the History and Culture of East Central Europe eV Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-7400-1001-0 , pp. 109, 114.
3. ↑ State Environment / Consumer Information System Brandenburg (LUIS-BB) - Liepnitzsee, p. 12, accessed August 2012 ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 135 kB)  
4. ↑ NaturTrails in Brandenburg, accessed August 2012 ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.