Riedebeck
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Riedebeck Riedebek, Borgstorfer Bach |
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 The Riedebeck at the bridge of the Bösdäne way from Zweedorf to Bröthen |
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| location | District of the Duchy of Lauenburg , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| River basin district | Elbe | |
| source | at Bröthen 53 ° 34 '37 " N , 10 ° 35' 55" E |
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| muzzle | at Witzeeze in the Elbe-Lübeck Canal
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| length | 7 km | |
The Riedebeck is a 7 km long stream in the Duchy of Lauenburg district in Schleswig-Holstein . It rises near Bröthen and, after passing the former Niebuhr lock, flows into the Kiessee 8 in the area of the municipality of Witzeeze . This drains via a fall into the edge ditch and from there into the Elbe-Lübeck Canal .
The source area and the upper reaches of the Riedebeck are piped. In the lower reaches, the Riedebeck was renatured by removing falls and moving it back to its old bed by 2012. As a result, the flow rate decreased, so that, as planned, rewetting occurred in the area of the Riedebeck lowlands on the state border with Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . On average, the flow rate is only 60 liters per second with a catchment area of approx. 21 km².
Since the Middle Ages, the lower reaches of the Riedebeck have formed the border between Lauenburg / Elbe and Mecklenburg and today the border between the federal states of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Until the 1960s it bore the name "Borgstorfer Bach", mentioned in the state border files in 1586, after the submerged village of Borgstorf on the Mecklenburg side. To operate the medieval Stecknitz-Delvenau Canal, the water of the Riedebeck was dammed behind a weir at the Niebuhr lock; when this was opened, the barges swam down the canal on the tidal wave.
Remarks
- ^ Wolfgang Prange: Settlement history of the state of Lauenburg in the Middle Ages. Neumünster 1960, p. 23.