Magdel

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Magdel
Magdelfurt, In der Aue

Magdelfurt, In der Aue

Data
location Weimarer Land district , Thuringia , Germany
River system Elbe
Drain over Ilm  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source east of Blankenhain
50 ° 50 ′ 24 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 14 ″  E
Source height approx.  425  m
muzzle near Mellingen in the Ilm coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 54 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 6 ″  E 50 ° 55 ′ 54 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 6 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  232  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 193 m
Bottom slope approx. 14 ‰
length 14 km

The Magdel is an approximately 14 km long right tributary of the Ilm in the Weimarer Land district in Central Thuringia .

course

It rises on the 465 meter high Wachenberg on the Ilm-Saale-Platte east of Blankenhain . Then it runs in a northerly direction through Loßnitz , Söllnitz , Tromlitz and Niedersynderstedt to Göttern . There it changes its direction of flow to northwest and runs through the city of Magdala . Below Magdala there are numerous mills in the Magdeltal before it flows into the Ilm from the right in Mellingen .

additional

The federal motorway 4 between the junctions Magdala and Apolda and the state road Mellingen - Magdala - Blankenhain run through the Magdeltal .

Surname

There are no older documented mentions of the brook, they all deal with Magdala . The original name was probably Madel. A folk etymological derivation from maid would be conceivable . The original name is probably derived from the Old High German Madal (place of assembly), the Gothic maþel (market place), Anglo-Saxon mädhel (place of assembly) or the Middle High German mahel (people's court). A derivation from Old High German mad, math (mat, grassland) is also conceivable for the place. For the middle of the 19th century, however, the basic word aha (a variant of -au ) is proven. The name would therefore be court water or meadow water. Since a corresponding naming of the place seems unlikely, the stream is probably the name of the place.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.mapcoordinates.net/
  2. ↑ Elfriede Ulbricht: The river basin of the Thuringian Saale. A name-based investigation (= German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history. No. 2, ISSN  0070-3893 ). Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1957, (at the same time: Leipzig, University, dissertation, 1954).