Moreitzgraben
The Moreitzgraben (also Moreitzmühlgraben or Moreitzbach ) is the name given to two branches of the Pößnitz in Niederlausitz, which have now largely disappeared or canalised .
Naming
The name can be traced back to the mill yard of a Moreitz ( Lower Sorbian Móra ), which was once located on the Moreitzbach .
Sources and history
The source of the right Moreitzgraben or Moreitzmühlgraben was on Vogelberg east of the Pommelheide between the villages of Klettwitz and Kostebrau within the Schipkau pond landscape. Its inflow into the Pößnitz is still today at the Staudemühle .
The source of the left Moreitzgraben, on the other hand, was likely to have been located in the pond landscapes of the Senftenberg and Hörlitz vineyards directly to the Paradies colony . Where the original headwaters of the Rainitza and Wolschinka once lay. Nowadays it flows into the Pößnitz not far from the Krügersmühle directly to the A13 .
history
In an artificially created canal system similar to the Spreewald with countless other natural and artificial branches, ponds and reservoirs at Pößnitz and Schwarzer Elster , the Moreitzgräben were once part of the Stakwege between the medieval castle and town complexes of Sallgast and Senftenberg .
With the construction of the autobahn and not least due to the large open-cast mines Klettwitz and Meuro , the original river bed should have finally disappeared. Only an ocher-colored canal along the L60 and a few agricultural irrigation and drainage ditches between the Staudemühle and the Treuhandsiedlung reminded of its former course until the end of the 1990s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arnošt Muka : Móra - Lower Sorbian family and field names, 1911–1928. Sorbian Institute, Cottbus.
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '7 " N , 13 ° 55' 1.6" E