Lempertsbach

Lempersbach (Unterlauf also: Grundbach )
At the Lempersbach in Nazza
Data
Water code	DE : 41736
location	Thuringia , Germany
River system	Weser
Drain over	Werra  → Weser  → North Sea
source	Outskirts of Heyerode 51 ° 9 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 16 ″  E
Source height	approx.  330  m above sea level NN
muzzle	At Mihla coordinates: 51 ° 5 '14 "  N , 10 ° 19' 37"  E 51 ° 5 '14 "  N , 10 ° 19' 37"  E
Mouth height	182.3  m above sea level NN
Height difference	approx. 147.7 m
Bottom slope	approx. 16 ‰
length	9 km
Catchment area	30.3 km²
Left tributaries	Ritzhäuser Wasser (1.6 km), Ludenborn (1.0 km), Steingraben (1.9 km)
Right tributaries	Bärenbach (1.9 km), Griebelsgraben (1.1 km), (unnamed) right tributary of Nazza (2.2 km)
Communities	Heyerode , Hallungen , Nazza , Mihla
The Lempersbach Bridge in Nazza

The Lempersbach , also called Grundbach in the lower reaches , is a 9 km long, orographically right tributary of the Werra in Thuringia , Germany , which flows almost continuously in a southerly direction. The original name of the water is said to have been Nazzaha , from which the place name Nazza was derived.

course

The Lempersbach rises in a meadow on the southern outskirts of Heyerode . There is a small pond only 200 m from the spring, which is fed by strong pouring springs. From this reservoir the Mühlwasser was a wooden trough for 300 m creek downstream Obermuhle transported to an overshot water wheel. Heyerode also includes the lower mill, which follows after another 200 m and was supplied with water in the same way.

The Lempersbach now has to squeeze through a natural bottleneck between Sommerstein (left side = east, 462 m) and Aschberg (422 m) or Ruppersberg (372 m) and receives its first tributary, the Bärenbach , between the last two mountains mentioned . As far as the outskirts of Hallungen, the Ritzhäuser Wasser follow as the left tributary and the Griebelsgraben as the right tributary. To the southeast of the 347 m high Rohrbachskopf , the Lempersbach is dammed in two fish ponds between the mouths of the last two tributaries mentioned.

This is followed by the location of Hallungen , which extends over a length of 500 m on the western bank. After another 500 m the Ludenborn joins from the left. To the west of the 313 m high Knoblochsköpfchen a fish farm was built, it consists of 7 small ponds.

This is followed by the location of Nazza , here the Lempersbach is channeled through the location as a canalised watercourse. A nameless right tributary flows into the far north of the place and the stone ditch that rises near Wernershausen as a left tributary flows into the south of Nazza.

Up to the confluence with the Werra below Mihla , the Lempersbach flows through an approximately 3 km long, partially wooded and very narrow valley. The former small settlement Almenhausen was located here - today a deserted area to which the Grundmühle , which was demolished in 1985, also belonged.

Surname

The name of the river Lempersbach goes back to an old fortification - Landwehr , which cuts the brook at the church head near Nazza. The name Grundbach is common in the lower reaches, the Grundmühle was also located here . In the map collection of JG Schleenstein this brook is marked with the Natze .

Economic history

Several mills were operated with the water of the Lempersbach as early as the High Middle Ages , including the upper mill and the lower mill near Heyerode and the basic mill near Mihla. Numerous fish ponds can still be found around Hallungen today. In Nazza there was also a flax roast at times below the locality .

Web links

Commons : Lempertsbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Raymund Falk: The desert of Reichensachsen near Heyerode and the settlement of the Hainich low mountain range . In: Association for Eichsfeldische Heimatkunde (Hrsg.): Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch . Issue 1. Mecke Druck und Verlag, Duderstadt 1993, p. 127-160 .
• Rainer Lämmerhirt : Mihla. From the story of a village in West Thuringia . Heimat- und Verkehrsverein, Mihla 1993 ( West Thuringian Heimatschriften special volume, ZDB -ID 2285013-2 ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Topographic map 1: 25,000
2. ↑ ^{a b c} River lengths according to geopaths (kmz, 7 kB)
3. ↑ Measured over the Bärenbach, the Lempersbach is about 10.1 km long.
4. ^ Thuringian State Institute for the Environment (ed.): Area and waterway key figures (directory and map). Jena 1998. 26 pp.
5. ↑ The stream is significantly longer over the wet and dry Ludenborn , which only carries water temporarily
6. ^ Volker Große, Klaus Herzberg: Obermühle / Untermühle Heyerode . In: Maik Pinkert (Ed.): Mühlen im Obereichsfeld. A compendium . Eichsfeld-Verlag, Heiligenstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-935782-13-5 , p. 180-182 .