Small rockers
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Kleine Wipper Frankenhäuser Wipper, trenches |
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 The Small Wipper below the entrance to the Barbarossa cave , just before her over the Thaleber Bach is performed |
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| location | Kyffhäuserkreis , Northern Thuringia , Germany | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Solgraben → Unstrut → Saale → Elbe → North Sea | |
| origin | at the Wipper weir "Schere" near Göllingen as a junction of the Wipper 51 ° 20 ′ 41 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 7 ″ E |
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| Source height | 175 m above sea level NN | |
| muzzle | as Solgraben near Schönfeld from the left into the Unstrut Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '39 " N , 11 ° 15' 59" E 51 ° 21 '39 " N , 11 ° 15' 59" E |
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| Mouth height | 122 m above sea level NN | |
| Height difference | 53 m | |
| Bottom slope | 2.1 ‰ | |
| length | from the weir at Göllingen to Bad Frankenhausen center approx. 11.6 km, total approx. 24.7 km | |
| Small towns | Bad Frankenhausen / Kyffhäuser | |
The Kleine Wipper , sometimes also called Frankenhäuser Wipper or Schützengraben , is an artificially created branch of the Wipper , which flows into the Unstrut from the left as a Solgraben in the northern Thuringian Kyffhäuserkreis near Schönfeld .
The Kleine Wipper was created in the late Middle Ages to provide the existing saltworks in Bad Frankenhausen with impact water for water art . Particularly noteworthy for this period is the Hanfenberg tunnel, which is a little over 500 meters long, as no hydraulic penetrations from this period are otherwise known. The Wippertunnel was first mentioned in a document in 1404. Since there is evidence of water art at the Frankenhausen saltworks as early as the 14th century, the construction of the Kleine Wipper is estimated to be in the first half of the 14th century. This makes it probably the oldest continuously operating hydraulic engineering facility in Germany. In view of its purpose, it is easy to explain why it only bears the name Kleine Wipper as far as the Frankenhausen saltworks, but is called Solgraben from there.
course
The Kleine Wipper branches off from the Wipper at the Schere weir near Göllingen. It initially flows in a northerly direction, reaches Bendeleben as the first place on the stream and bends to the east. Further downstream, it crosses the Thaleber Bach and flows past the entrance of the Barbarossa Cave. Now it flows leisurely to Bad Frankenhausen and divides into two arms. One arm flows underground and parallel to the B85 , the other reaches the source base . There, the water from this other little Wipper arm mixes with the water from the brine springs gushing out. Both streams unite again at the Kyffhäuser Therme , the unified stream is now called Solgraben . At Schönfeld it joins the Unstrut from the left .
photos
The pictures are arranged downstream.
The Kleine Wipper crosses the Thaleber Bach
Water stairs after teeing off the Kleine-Wipper-Arm in Bad Frankenhausen, which runs parallel to the B 85
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.mapcoordinates.net
- ↑ Map from Google Earth
- ↑ Small rockers at kyffnet.de