Scharmbeck brook

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Scharmbeck brook
The Scharmbeck brook flows into the Hamme at about 5.1 km.

The Scharmbeck brook flows into the Hamme at about 5.1 km .

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location Osterholz-Scharmbeck , Lower Saxony
River system Weser
Drain over Hamme  → Lesum  → Weser  → North Sea
origin Confluence of two source streams in the Bargtener Bruch at Bargten
53 ° 14 ′ 22 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 32 ″  E
Source height approx.  45  m above sea level NN
muzzle in the Hamme coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′ 50 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 26"  E 53 ° 11 ′ 50 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 26"  E
Mouth height approx.  0  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 45 m
Bottom slope about 6 ‰
length 7.5 km
Right tributaries Wienbeck
Upper course of the Scharmbeck brook in its Geest valley near Bargten
Watermill in today's city park behind the church.
Confluence Scharmbecker Bach and Wienbeck towards Hamme .

The Scharmbeck Bach is a Geestrandbach that flows through the district town of Osterholz-Scharmbeck and flows into the Hamme .

Like many small rivers in the region, the stream has its source in the Lange Heide area , a geest plateau of the Osterholzer Geest north of Osterholz-Scharmbeck. It rises not far from the source of the Giehler Bach , the upper reaches of the Hamme. However, while it flows westwards through the Teufelsmoor after a wide east bend - which has become the Hamme , the Scharmbeck brook cuts this bend to the south, taking up the Wienbeck , which flows a little further west, and finally flows into the Hamme between Ritterhude and Tietjens Hütte .

In the city of Osterholz-Scharmbeck, the brook was of enormous importance for the Scharmbeck clothmaker's guild in historical times , as its high flow speed enabled water mills to be operated. A total of nine mills could be operated; In addition to the six fulling mills for the cloth makers, there were also three grain mills. One was right behind Gut Sandbeck , the second was behind the church of St. Willehadi (her bike can still be seen today), the third was at the Osterholz monastery to paint the tithe. The stream was diverted for the last grain mill in the 12th century and the course continued to be greatly altered by human intervention. Since rain and precipitation water is collected and diverted separately from wastewater in the urban area , the municipal utilities also feed this water into the Scharmbeck stream.

In particular the river straightening is to be further reduced by 2015 - according to general guidelines of the European Union .

course

The stream rises in several arms on the Lange Heide ; the two main arms begin in the west of Westerbeck and unite shortly before the crossing "Lange Reihe" between Westerbeck and Bargten . This also shows how precise old place names are often (Westerbeck: western brook ).

Flowing south-southeast, but still north of the "Garlstedter Kirchweg", the stream joins its westernmost arm, which flows parallel to it. The stream now continues into the Sandbecker Bruch , a lowland area that is now under protection, but in the vicinity of which a garbage dump was operated until 1977 . This fact can still be made immediately visible today just a few centimeters below the surface.

Behind the Sandbecker Bruch , the stream joins its eastern arm, which rises south of Westerbeck in the “An der Lith” area.

The stream reaches the area of ​​the core city after it has tunneled under the federal highway 74 . Here the “Sandbeckstraße” runs parallel to the stream bed and both reach Gut Sandbeck . The brook is now between "Dornwurthstraße" and "Am Deich". This is where the “Scharmbeck open-air swimming pool” was originally located, which was destroyed by a bomb in World War II and the explosion of which hurled numerous eels onto the “Am Deich” street.

The Scharmbeck brook now tunnels the “Poststraße” and flows parallel to “Teichstraße”, which takes its name from the mill jam that was built here for a grain mill that only closed down in 1963. The preserved mill wheel of this grain mill is in the city park , the millstone is set into the ground next to it; the brook now flows in an arch at the market square into a new dam by installing a water feature.

The stream crosses under a wide crossing to the market square and then follows its old river bed "Hinter der Wurth" again. The "Bahnhofstrasse" is also tunneled and the stream flows behind the grammar school in front of the "Barkhof" into another underpass, in which it receives a small inflow from the "Eichhof" behind the "Garteler Weg".

This crossing is z. For the time being, due to the renovation of the entire Barkhof area, it has been largely repealed and the stream is renatured at this point. He passes the all-weather pool and passes under “An der Handloge”; parallel to the street “An den Hören” tunnels for the last time at “Bremer Straße” and now flows next to “Luisen-Straße” towards the Hammewiesen. Shortly before it reaches it, it is bridged by the Bremen-Bremerhaven railway line and behind it meets its only larger inflow: the Wienbeck.

The diversion of the stream to the monastery (shown in dashed lines on the map) was later canceled, so that the street names "Hinter dem Bach" and "Bachstraße" at the monastery still remind of the former run, but this is now a direct route to the Lintel district Hamme takes. In the "Lintler Weiden" the Scharmbeck brook flows into the Hamme, 7.5 km from its source, at about 5.1 km. (The tributary at Tietjens-Hütte at river kilometer 7-8 is the Osterholz port canal . Both have no connection to each other, although they run parallel in the area of ​​the runway of the glider airfield behind the marina of the port canal at a distance of about 500 m.)

Origin of the name Scharmbeck

Scharmbeck = "scirnbeci" is a place name and is made up of:

  • 1. scirn: = Latin. Shear, border or = Latin. Smooth, clear
  • 2. beck (beek) = brook

So the designation Scharmbeck means; "Klarer Bach" or "Grenz-Bach"; the current name Scharmbecker Bach is thus a tautology in the rear part ("Klarer Bach" Bach).

Both interpretations are possible; the former can be seen clearly; and that the brook could be a border only becomes apparent when you look at the map. Here it can be seen that the brook, together with the Wienbeck, cuts off the Hammebogen and thus creates an almost separate area.

The term "scirnbeci" is the original word stem for all terms such as:

Sandbeek (e) - Sandbe (c) k (e) - scernebe (c) k (e) - scirnbe (c) k (e) - Schermbe (c) k (e) -> Scharmbeck

This also gives rise to the original naming for the von Sandbeck family with the Sandbeck estate and of course for the Scharmbeck settlement and thus for Osterholz-Scharmbeck .

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