Knauthainer Elstermühlgraben
| Knauthainer Elstermühlgraben | ||
 Knauthainer Elstermühlgraben in Großzschocher |
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| location | Saxony , Germany | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | White Elster → Saale → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source | as a tributary of the White Elster near Hartmannsdorf 51 ° 15 ′ 23 ″ N , 12 ° 17 ′ 34 ″ E |
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| muzzle | in Großzschocher in the White Elster Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 57 " N , 12 ° 19 ′ 53" E 51 ° 17 ′ 57 " N , 12 ° 19 ′ 53" E
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| length | 6.3 km | |
| Left tributaries | Flood relief of the Krebsgraben , Klucksgraben | |
| Right tributaries | Zickmantelscher Mühlgraben | |
| Big cities | Leipzig | |
| Communities | Hartmannsdorf , Knauthain , Großzschocher | |
The Knauthainer Elstermühlgraben is an artificial branch of the White Elster and has a length of 6.39 kilometers. It is the lower section of a former mill ditch, about 29 kilometers long, which was interrupted by the Zwenkau opencast mine . The upper section is the Profener Elstermühlgraben . In terms of water law, the Knauthainer Elstermühlgraben is a second order body of water .
course
The Knauthainer Elstermühlgraben branches off from the White Elster as a piped diversion in Saxony shortly before the Hartmannsdorf gradient. Still piped, it takes up the flood relief of the Krebsgraben on the left and the Klucksgraben in Hartmannsdorf , already above ground and also on the left. The Knauthainer Elstermühlgraben divides into two arms in Knauthain and, until its reunification near Knautkleeberg, is a little bit twisted over a length of a few hundred meters. From Knautkleeberg it flows in an approximately straight course on the western edge of the Elsteraue and shortly before its confluence takes on the Zickmantelschen Mühlgraben from the right . The Knauthainer Elstermühlgraben flows into the White Elster in Großzschocher near Brückenstraße.
history
The historic Mühlgraben was created in the 12th century by the monks of the Pegau Monastery and at the instigation of Wiprecht von Groitzsch . Its main purpose was the operation of the mills from Elstertrebnitz to Großzschocher, some of which were used until the 20th century.
In the course of the lignite mining, the White Elster was relocated to its current concrete bed between Zwenkau and Leipzig between 1972 and 1977 and the Mühlgraben near Kleindalzig was integrated into it or branched off again at Hartmannsdorf. Its dry-fallen bed lying in between, about five kilometers long, was devastated by the overburden excavators from 1984 onwards . To the south of the former Eythra, the Mühlgraben between Betonelster and Zwenkauer See is still preserved, but it no longer has any water because of the lowered groundwater level.
Renaturation
The city of Leipzig is planning to renature the Knauthainer Elstermühlgraben as part of the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive . The existing water corridor between Knauthain and Windorf is to be widened by around 25 m and a new, meandering river course is to be created in part. In general, the aim is to completely unseal the water profile and to establish ecological longitudinal continuity. Parts of the Krummen Graben, the Windorf Graben and the Wiesengraben should also be included, which are smaller old runs between the Weißer Elster and the Mühlgraben. Land consolidation proceedings were ordered on November 21, 2016 for this purpose .
Web links
- Knauthainer Elstermühlgraben On: leipzig-lexikon.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Streams of the 2nd order. In: Website of the city of Leipzig. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Leipziger and Schkeuditz Waters brochure of the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) Landesverband Sachsen e. V .; On: sachsen.nabu.de (PDF; German; 7.64 MB)
- ^ Application No. VI-A-04486 Consideration of the water system including the problem solutions in the south-west of Leipzig; Local councilor Hartmannsdorf-Knautnaundorf, councilor J. Heller; 2017; P. 6; On: linksfraktion-leipzig.de (German, PDF, 5.78 MB)
- ^ Brandiser Stadtjournal Official Gazette of the City of Brandis; Issue 1/2017; January 16, 2017; On: stadt-brandis.de (PDF; German; 5.92 MB)
- ^ Environmental report 2013 City of Leipzig; December 31 2013; On: leipzig.de (PDF; German; 16.5 MB)
- ^ Environmental report 2007 City of Leipzig; December 2007; On: leipzig.de (PDF; German; 12.6 MB)
- ↑ Land consolidation procedure Knauthainer Elstermühlgraben announcement on leipzig.de; Retrieved April 3, 2017