Rödel (river)

Rödel Rödelwasser
The former Rödel (shown in red) in the Leipzig water junction
Data
location	Saxony , Germany
River system	Elbe
Drain over	White Elster  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source	As the mouth of the Pleiße in the area of ​​the Connewitz weir 51 ° 18 ′ 59 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 28 ″  E
muzzle	Near the Könneritzbrücke in the White Elster Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 47 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 50 ″  E 51 ° 19 ′ 47 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 50 ″  E
length	about 2 km
Left tributaries	Paußnitz
The Rödel 1879 (here Rödelwasser)

The Rödel (also Rödelwasser ) was one of the estuary arms of the Pleiße in Leipzig . It was interrupted by the construction of the Elster flood bed and filled in from 1926. The Rödel flowed exclusively on Leipzig city area and was part of the Leipzig water junction .

course

Until around 1880, the Pleiße was divided into two estuary arms in the area of ​​the Connewitz weir, the Rödel and the Alte Pleiße (later also called Kuhstrangwasser). While the Alte Pleiße maintained approximately the northern direction of the Pleiße, the Rödel turned almost at right angles to the west.

In the area of ​​the Paußnitz estuary, roughly at the point where the Paußnitz flows into the Elster flood bed today, the Rödel changed its direction of flow to northwest and from here formed the western border of the forest area Die Nun . From the eastern end of Industriestrasse, where the Leipzig-Connewitz-Plagwitz railway crossed the Rödel, it flowed north to its confluence with the White Elster near the Könneritz Bridge .

Hydrology

A special feature is the fact that the Rödel not only transported Pleißewasser, but also water from the White Elster. It had numerous tributaries, of which the Batschke flowed into the Pleiße about a kilometer south of the Rödelabzweig. The Paußnitz, which flowed into the Rödel, was in turn a tributary of the Batschke.

Human interventions

The first human interventions in the river systems of the Pleiße and Weißer Elster were made by the band ceramists around 7000 years ago . However, these were only indirect interventions through agricultural land use in the catchment areas. The associated erosion led to a high sediment load (sand and silt ) and its deposition as loam in the originally gravelly lowland rivers , which made the strong branching of the waters possible in the first place.

Around 1880 the Rödel was cut off from the Pleiße by the construction of the Elster flood bed in the area of ​​the Paußnitz estuary. The remaining course up to the mouth remained until it was backfilled in 1926, but was only significantly traversed during floods.

Today the remains of the railway bridge at the east end of Industriestraße and the Ferdinand Lassalle Bridge (previously: Bismarck Bridge ) refer to the former course of the river. The road in Schleußig that used to lead to the bridge over the Rödel in the direction of Schleußiger Weg is called Rödelstraße .

swell

• Miles sheets of Saxony 1: 12000 "Berliner Exemplar", recorded 1780–1806 under the direction of Friedrich Ludwig Aster, box M 14433, sheet B18, on: deutschefotothek.de
• Topographic map Saxony 1: 25000. (Measuring table sheets & equidistant map), Royal General Staff, Leipzig, various editions 1874–1942, sheet 11, on: deutschefotothek.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} excerpt from sheet 11 (from 1879), topographical map Saxony 1: 25000 (equidistant map ), edited in the topographical bureau of the Royal General Staff, Leipzig: Giesecke & Devrient, on: deutschefotothek.de
2. ↑ Brief description of the Rödel on: leipzig-lexikon.de
3. ^ Judith Gläser: Historical development of alluvial forests in the Leipzig floodplain forest. Dissertation TU Dresden 2002 ( PDF file ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))
4. ↑ Restoration of the former watercourses of the Luppe , part 1, bgmr landscape architects, 2006 ( PDF file; 13.7 MB )