Pleice high flood bed
| Pleice high flood bed | ||
 The Pleißehochflutbett with the Gautzscher bridge |
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| Data | ||
| location | Saxony , Germany | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Pleiße → Weisse Elster → Saale → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source | Branch from the Pleiße near the city limits to Markkleeberg 51 ° 17 ′ 42 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 30 ″ E |
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| muzzle | In the Pleiße north of the Hakenteichs Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 6 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 55 ″ E 51 ° 18 ′ 6 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 55 ″ E
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| length | 1.2 km | |
| Big cities | Leipzig | |
The Pleißehochflutbett is an artificial river course in the south of Leipzig and a left tributary of the Pleiße in the event of a flood between 1868 and 1869 . It is a 40 to 50 meter wide strip of meadow through the alluvial forest and is 1.2 kilometers long. In terms of water law, the Pleißehochflutbett is a water body of the first order .
course
The flood bed begins near the Pleißenbrücke on the Leipzig – Hof railway line and runs in a north-westerly direction to flow back into the Pleiße north of the Hakenteich. In its middle section, it runs along the north-western border of the wildlife park and includes the Jungfernlache , an oxbow lake of the Pleisse, the lower course of which was reshaped when the Pleisse high flood bed was built.
The Koburger Straße with the Gautzscher Bridge , the Auenwaldweg Die Linie and some footpaths lead over the flood bed .
When the water in the Pleiße is normal or low, the flood bed has no water.
function
The main component of the Pleißehochflutbett is the Gautzscher Bridge ( → Lage ) over the flood bed in the course of Koburger Strasse . In the event of a flood, this increases the permeability of the dam on which Koburger Strasse runs, as otherwise only the Raschwitzer Bridge ( → Lage ) would be available for this. The flood bed has neither inlet nor outlet structures and only low elevations or low dams as side boundaries, as the flooding of the alluvial forest area can be accepted when the water level is higher. Keeping the trees clear helps the water run off faster.
Historical
A similar flood bed in the Pleiße existed in the north-west of the city until around 1900, whereby the issue here was the passage of the embankment of the Leipzig – Großkorbetha railway line . The flood bed began near today's Gohliser Fechnerstrasse (the Pleiße still flowed over Gohlis at that time) and ended with the confluence with the Elster near today's Pohlestrasse.
Individual evidence
- ^ Connewitz - A historical and urban study . PRO LEIPZIG 2008, p. 14
- ^ A b Leipzig rivers 1st order
- ^ Bridge name according to the Internet city map of the city of Leipzig
- ^ Topographic map of Saxony 1: 25000. (Measuring table sheets & equidistant map), Royal General Staff, Leipzig, sheet 11, edition 1879, on: deutschefotothek.de