Stadtbach (Augsburg)
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| location | Bavaria , Germany | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Lech → Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | at the confluence of the Middle Lech and the Hinterem Lech 48 ° 22 ′ 13 ″ N , 10 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ E |
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| muzzle | in the Lech coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 9 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 21 ″ E 48 ° 24 ′ 9 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 21 ″ E
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| length | 3 km | |
| Left tributaries | Vorderer Lech, Malvasierbach | |
| Right tributaries | Sparrenlech, Schäfflerbach, Proviantbach | |
| Big cities | augsburg | |
The Stadtbach is a canal in Augsburg . As part of the network of canals in Augsburg and of Augsburg's historical water management system , it leads the water of the Lech, which is routed through Augsburg's Lechviertel and Jakobervorstadt , northwards out of the old town. As it progresses, it also takes in the canals that run through Augsburg's textile district . Initially it has a water volume of approx. 8 m³ / s, later this value increases due to the inflows.
While in the past the entire canal that led from the Hochablass into the city of Augsburg and back again was sometimes referred to as the “Stadtbach”, today it has different names in its first sections ( capital stream , Kaufbach).
meaning
The city Bach had like all channels Augsburg several functions: firstly, he served since the Middle Ages, the wastewater - and waste , and had such an important function for the hygiene and health of urban citizens. Furthermore, its water power was used to operate mills and other handicrafts, later to generate electricity. In addition, it was probably also used for rafting .
The Stadtbach gained special importance from the middle of the 19th century, when it was used to operate the largest spinning mill in Germany, the cotton mill on the Stadtbach .
course
The Stadtbach begins near the Brechthaus in the western part of the Jakobervorstadt-Nord district . It arises from the confluence of the Mittlerer Lech and Hinterer Lech canals . This confluence is crossed diagonally by a pedestrian bridge. Shortly afterwards, the Vordere Lech flows towards him from the left , which is passed under the Stadtmetzg on its last stretch and then bends at right angles. Today, however, this tributary is built over by the ramp-like street “Leonhardsberg”, which was laid out as a new east-west axis after the war destruction of Augsburg, and by a parking garage under the ramp. A few meters further on the “Schmiedberg”, the Haarbrücke used to lead over the canal. The Catholic foundling house was located on the right bank of the canal from 1533 to 1811, today the old town bath is located here . At a somewhat hidden place at the level of the former "Wall Bath", the canal has a torrent.
After the flood, the canal leads northeast between the “Liliom” cinema and the “Bei den Seven Kindeln” house. At this point there is the unusual sight of a water crossing : the stone walnut canal bridge directs the water from the inner city moat (formerly the Brunnenbach ) across the city stream. In the past, there was a waterworks on the site of today's cinema, the "Lower Fountain Works". Its water tower , the Lower Fountain Tower , can still be seen today.
The Stadtbach crosses under the “Oberer Graben” street. At this point, the water-filled moat of the city fortifications of Augsburg , over which the city stream ran, was another water crossing. On the other side of the Upper Trench, the Stadtbach flows a short distance in the northern Jakobervorstadt and there absorbs the rafters leading to approx. 3 m³ / s , which flows into the Stadtbach from the right behind the youth hostel . In earlier centuries it had other smaller tributaries such as the Lauterlech in Jakobervorstadt .
From here the canal runs northwards again. It crosses under the old main hospital , leaves Jakobervorstadt and crosses the outer city moat , which joins the inner city moat on the left , from which it branches off. This was the place where the canal used to leave the fortified city of Augsburg. There is also a water crossing here at the former Oblattertor , but it is built over and cannot be seen. In the city district of Bleich and Pfärrle , the canal crosses under the former spring road, today's Bert-Brecht-Straße, and flows parallel to the canal road named after it. He passes the youth center "K15" (again named after Kanalstrasse) and is crossed by Brückenstrasse. At the height of the Lueginsland , the Schäfflerbach (approx. 6 m³ / s) flows into the Stadtbach from the right .
The volume of water, which has increased again in this way, now flows through the grounds of the UPM-Kymmene paper mill (formerly Haindl Papier ) a little below ground (built over) and crosses the Stadtbachstrasse , named after him , which leads to the MAN bridge over the Lech. When the daylight comes back, from here on in the Augsburg-Rechts der Wertach , the canal changes direction again to the northwest, roughly parallel to the Proviantbach and Lech , and flows between the grounds of the engine and turbo- machine factory MAN Diesel & Turbo and UPM- Kymmene through. Here it still takes up the Malvasierbach , which is now buried underground , which drains the water from the city ditches, and is used by the hydroelectric power station on the Stadtbach to generate electricity. It passes the site of MT Aerospace (formerly MAN Technology) and enters the wooded conservation area of Wolfzahnau .
Here the city stream flows from the right of the approximately 14 m³ / s leading and thus almost equally strong Proviantbach . The Stadtbach has now absorbed all of the water from the Augsburg Lech Canal. A sluice on the left enables water to be drained into the Wertach if necessary. The combined city and provision stream (also known as the outlet channel ) ultimately leads strictly parallel to the Wertach approx. 39 m³ / s (according to other sources up to 35 m³ / s) to the hydropower plant on the Wolfzahnau , the oldest and at the same time the largest power plant of the Augsburg canal system from 1902.
After the hydropower plant on the Wolfzahnau, the canal flows into the Lech from the left, only about 100 meters before the point where the Wertach also flows into the Lech from the left.
Individual evidence
- ^ " Landschaftspflegeverband Stadt Augsburg eV": Bach profile of Stadtbach
- ^ Hydrographic map from 1849 in Susanne F. Kohl: History of Stadtentwässerung Augsburg . 1st edition. City of Augsburg, Augsburg 2010, p. 26, 63 .
- ↑ Good to see in Susanne F. Kohl: History of Stadtentwässerung Augsburg . 1st edition. City of Augsburg, Augsburg 2010, p. 26, 63 .
- ↑ Paperback from Augsburg or: Topographical-statistical description of the city . January 1, 1830, p. 194 ( [1] ).
- ^ Wilhelm Ruckdeschel: Industrial culture in Augsburg. Monuments of technology and industrialization . Brigitte Settele Verlag, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-932939-44-1 , p. 140 .
- ^ Wilhelm Ruckdeschel, Klaus Luther: Technical monuments in Augsburg. A guided tour through the city . Brigitte Settele Verlag, Augsburg 1984, p. 33 ff .