Land trenches in Nuremberg

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The land ditches in Nuremberg comprise a large number of smaller rivers in the city of Nuremberg with a total length of approx. 180 km. In terms of water law, they are third-order bodies of water, so the city is responsible for their maintenance. The only exception is the 20 km long Gründlach , which is managed as a second order body of water by the water management office. There are a total of 80 trenches and streams in Nuremberg .

use

Land trenches were used by people from an early age: feeding ponds and ponds, irrigating meadows and fields, providing fire-fighting water, driving mills and hammer mills, and discharging waste water. They were regulated, congested, diverted and channeled. Some were part of the Nuremberg Landwehr built in 1449 during the First Margrave War , a simple fortification and later part of the circumvallation line in the Thirty Years' War . With increasing settlement, some land trenches were built over and are no longer visible today. The name of Landgrabenstrasse in the southern part of the city is reminiscent of such a development . In recent years, more attention has been paid to the land trenches in connection with the issues of urban ecology and local recreation: piping and roofing are being dismantled, the courses are being renatured and developed into urban ecological axes.

For the renaturation, the city of Nuremberg provides 90,000 EUR annually through the "Servicebetrieblicher Raum" (SÖR) (as of 2009). With this modest sum, projects can only be carried out in cooperation with schools or associations such as the Bund Naturschutz, the Agenda 21 group or the landscape conservation association.

Land trenches and streams in the north of Nuremberg

(In the order of their confluence with the Regnitz or Pegnitz)

  • Kesselgraben
  • Ditch: flows into the Strickig ditch
  • Nonnengraben: opens into the Strickiggraben
  • Strickiggraben: comes from the Sebald Reichswald and flows into the Gründlach
  • Lachgraben: takes on the Siechgraben and flows into the Gründlach
  • Siechgraben: branches off the Gründlach and flows into the Lachgraben
  • Kothbrunngraben: flows through Buchenbühl and flows into the Gründlach
  • Gründlach : one of the larger streams; rises between Ödenberg and Günthersbühl
  • Mühlbach: branches off the Gründlach north of Boxdorf and flows back to it in Großgründlach; was created artificially to operate a water mill
  • Hirschsprunggraben / Bucher Landgraben: flows into the Regnitz in the north of Fürth
  • Rostgraben: flows into the Bucher Landgraben
  • Schnepfenreuther Landgraben: becomes the Poppenreuther Graben in Fürth and flows into the Regnitz
  • Wetzendorfer Landgraben: flows through the Knoblauchsland and flows into the Pegnitz near Fürth
  • Tiefgraben : rises in the Sebald Reichswald on the Haidberg, flows through Erlenstegen into the Pegnitz . In 2002 it was renatured.

Land trenches and streams in the south of Nuremberg

Renatured duck pit near the royal court
The long water with weir

(In the order of their confluence with the Pegnitz or Rednitz)

  • Goldbach : flows through the Valznerweiher into the Pegnitz
  • Katzenbach: rises in the Lorenzer Reichswald and flows past the Südklinikum into the Langwassergraben. It was renatured in 2008.
  • Langwasser or Langwassergraben: comes from the Lorenzer Reichswald, flows past the Langwassersee and flows into the Dutzendteich
  • Upper Brandgraben: comes from the Lorenzer Reichswald south of Moorenbrunn and flows through the Moorenbrunnfeld into the Langwassergraben
  • Fischbach : flows through the Dutzendteich into the Goldbach
  • Ludergraben : flows through the Lorenzer Reichswald into the Röthenbach
  • Neuselsbrunngraben
  • Röthenbacher Landgraben: flows through the Faberpark and then into the Rednitz
  • Eibacher Landgraben
  • Schwarzengraben: flows into the Main-Danube Canal at the port
  • Brünnelgraben: flows into the Main-Danube Canal at the port
  • Ottergraben: flows into the Entengraben at Königshof
  • Entengraben: flows into the Rednitz
  • Oak forest moat : flows into the duck moat
  • Gaulnhofener Graben: flows into the oak forest ditch
  • Krottenbach: flows into the Rednitz near Mühlhof
  • Moat
  • Herbstgraben: flows out of stone only a short distance over the Nuremberg area and flows into the Rednitz west of Eibach

Unfinished moat

literature

Web links

Wiktionary: Landgraben  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bund Naturschutz: The city and its brooks (PDF; 2.1 MB) (as of November 2003).
  2. ↑ A. Leitgeber: Of course it's going better; Nuremberg Today, Issue 86; Nuremberg 2009; P. 59
  3. ↑ A. Leitgeber: Of course it's going better; Nuremberg Today, Issue 86; Nuremberg 2009; P. 60
  4. ↑ A. Leitgeber: Of course it's going better; Nuremberg Today, Issue 86; Nuremberg 2009; P. 61