Maiden pool

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Maiden pool
Panichs Lache (left) and Jungfernlache (right) between Floßgraben and Pleiße [1]

Panichs Lache (left) and Jungfernlache (right) between Floßgraben and Pleiße

Data
location Germany , Saxony
River system Elbe
Drain over Pleiße  → Weisse Elster  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source in Großstädteln as a junction from the Pleiße
51 ° 15 ′ 39 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 10 ″  E
muzzle in Connewitz in die Pleiße Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 6 "  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 55"  E 51 ° 18 ′ 6 "  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 55"  E

length about 2 km 
formerly 6.6 kilometers
Big cities Leipzig
Medium-sized cities Markkleeberg

The Virgin pool is about two kilometers (formerly approximately 6.6 km) long oxbow lake of the splices in Leipzig district Connewitz and remained a virtually stagnant water. It often falls dry, is only continuously filled with water after heavy rain events or snowmelt and only then has a very low flow in its lower reaches.

course

Junction of the Jungfernlache near Großstädteln around 1828
Jungfernlache near Raschwitz around 1828

The Jungfernlache branched off to the left of the Pleiße in what is now the Markkleeberger district of Großstädteln, flowed past Oetzsch and Raschwitz and reached Connewitz by crossing under Koburger Straße. From there it meandered with several arms through the Ratsholz and flowed east of the wildlife park restaurant, like today's Pleißehochflutbett in the Pleiße. A smaller branch in the council wood flowed to the Panichs Lache . Due to development and lignite opencast mining, the course on the Markkleeberg area no longer exists today, only the Connewitz part has been preserved.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b excerpt from: overview plan of the inundation areas of the waters near and in the vicinity of Leipzig, approx. 1:12 000, copperplate engraving, compiled in 1855 from the river regulation map recorded by ... Kohl and Georgi ... 1852-1854, Leipzig, Kunsch, on: deutschefotothek.de
  2. ↑ a b c measured with Google Earth
  3. ↑ a b c excerpt from sheet F, 6: Marck Kleeberg, from plan of Leipzig and the surrounding area, 1: 8000, lithograph, 1828 , Berlin, Schropp u. Co, on: deutschefotothek.de