Lutter spring
| Lutter spring | ||||
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 Source house of the "Abbot Fabricius Source" from 1708 |
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| location | ||||
| Country or region | District of Helmstedt ( Lower Saxony ) | |||
| Coordinates | 52 ° 14 ′ 9 " N , 10 ° 48 ′ 27" E | |||
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| geology | ||||
| Mountains | Elm | |||
| Source type | Karst springs | |||
| Exit type | Fall source | |||
| rock | limestone | |||
| Hydrology | ||||
| River system | Weser | |||
| Receiving waters | Lutter → Schunter → Oker → Aller → Weser → North Sea | |||
| Bulk | 230 l / s | |||
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 9 ″ N , 10 ° 48 ′ 27 ″ E
The Lutterquelle or Lutterspring is a large karst spring in Lower Saxony on the Elm plateau . The Lutter rises from it and later flows into the Schunter . The source is located in a valley on Landstrasse 290 near Königslutter in the Helmstedt district .
Data
The Lutter springs have a daily discharge of an average of 230 l per second (20,000 m³ per day) and thus belong to the strongest springs in northern Germany alongside the Rhume spring .
The Lutter springs
The Lutter springs consist of a total of seven springs , including the main spring in a spring house . Furthermore, several spring pots can be observed in a near-natural state. The two largest of these attract special attention on the adventure trail.
Abbot Fabricius source
The Abbot Fabricius spring is the main source of the Lutter. It is a raid or fall source, where the water leaks from rock crevices in steep terrain. It was named after Abbot Johann Fabricius (1644–1729) who was buried in Königslutter . It was set by him in 1708 in a Baroque style in a spring house made of Elm limestone . The rain water enters after passing through the water-permeable limestone-Elm here on Elmrand in the form of Lutter in large quantities again. The residents of the city of Königslutter have been getting their drinking water directly from the Lutterspring since 1910 . Today the spring is protected as a cultural monument. A relief on the building shows a Greek river god , the name of Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and a Latin saying: “Ex fonte bibens fontem corona” ( “Crown the spring by drinking from the spring” ).
Other sources
Two other sources below the Abt-Fabricius-Quelle also show a heavy pouring, but this can also fluctuate a lot. The first source is assigned to the fall or hot spring sources. The second is special because it is composed of different source types. It consists of a fall and a pond source.
After emerging from these springs, the water can run into the Lutter with such strong pressure that steep edges and scouring can be found on the opposite bank .
Coach hole
The northern, last spring pot, the so-called Kutscherloch belongs to the limnocrene spring pot . According to an old local legend is to the Middle Ages a rich man during a storm with his coach be gone astray and then lost in this source pool.
Popularly, this misfortune was viewed as a punishment for the man's mocking the wooden statue of St. Mary in the Chapel of Our Lady. The Liebfrauenkapelle was a former extension of the imperial cathedral in Königslutter.
Circles of spring can be observed on the water surface of the Kutscherloch. The pool floor is partly covered with water plants. This is to be interpreted as an indication of a low water current.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b nds. State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation (NLWKN): Water quality report Oker 2002. (PDF; 8.68 MB) (No longer available online.) October 2002, p. 65 ff. , Archived from the original on October 5, 2013 ; Retrieved December 24, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
