Uffe (Wieda)

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Uffe
Sachsengraben (in Thuringia)
Run the Uffe right through Bad Sachsa.

Run the Uffe right through Bad Sachsa .

Data
Water code DE : 5648228
location Districts of Göttingen and Nordhausen ; Lower Saxony and Thuringia ( Germany )
River system Elbe
Drain over Wieda  → Zorge  → Helme  → Unstrut  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source in the Harz at the Großer Bockstalskopf
51 ° 37 '37 "  N , 10 ° 32" 28 "  E
Source height approx.  580  m above sea level NHN
muzzle behind Obersachswerfen in the Wieda coordinates: 51 ° 33 '14 "  N , 10 ° 39' 21"  E 51 ° 33 '14 "  N , 10 ° 39' 21"  E
Mouth height approx.  236  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 344 m
Bottom slope approx. 23 ‰
length approx. 15 km
The Uffe, known here in Branderode as the Sachsengraben.

The Uffe, known here in Branderode as the Sachsengraben.

The Uffe , called Sachsengraben in Thuringia , is a western and orographically right tributary of the Wieda in the Harz in the Lower Saxony district of Göttingen and in the Thuringian district of Nordhausen .

course

The Uffe has its source in the southern Harz region of Lower Saxony in the Harz Nature Park . Its source is in the community-free Harz region of the Göttingen district at around 580  m above sea level. NHN on the southern slope of the Großer Bockstalskopf ( 630  m ), a secondary peak of the Ravensberg ( 659  m ). Near the source, the Uffe is fed by a trickle coming from a height of about 610  m .

Initially the Uffe flows south through the Harz Mountains. Then it runs southeast through the core town of Bad Sachsa . Below the village, to the west, it passes the Sachsenstein, a former coral reef of the Zechstein Sea . There, at the cut of the Northeim – Nordhausen railway line crossed by the Uffe, is the ruin of Sachsenstein Castle (Sachsenburg) .

The Uffe then reaches the village of Neuhof , which belongs to Bad Sachsa , from where the brook - from the transition from the Lower Saxon Harz Nature Park to the Thuringian Südharz Nature Park  - flows further south-east as the Sachsengraben. It flows through the villages of Branderode and Obersachswerfen, which are part of the Hohenstein community . As a rule, the stream seeps into the gypsum karst there before it can reach the Wieda tributary of the Zorge at a height of around 236  m below Obersachswerfen

The Sachsengraben in Branderode.

Klettenberger Mühlgraben

In the 17th century, the Klettenberger Mühlgraben branching off from the brook axis (Uffe-Sachsengraben) that branches off from the brook axis flowing to the Wieda was created below Neuhof by means of a weir built there . The weir used to branch off was near the former inner-German border , which is why it was abandoned in 1961 and the Mühlgraben was robbed of its function; there is a sewage treatment plant near the weir . It originally led over to the Uffe, which flows into the Ichte, and crossed the watershed of both rivers in a north-south direction. With the help of a water art, the mill ditch was used to supply Klettenberg and Klettenberg Castle , which are located in the southern Harz gypsum karst landscape, and to operate more than ten water mills . Almost nothing remains of the mill moat and the water art.

Water quality

In Thuringia, the Uffe (Sachsengraben  ) is rated as "moderately polluted" ( water quality class II).

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b Memory of an almost forgotten medieval engineering achievement , from October 25, 2012, accessed on March 16, 2015, on walkenrieder-nachrichten.com
    compare with:
    Heimatkunde der Stadt Nordhausen, p. 24, E. Haacke's Buchhandlung, Nordhausen 1904:
    A water flows into the Ichte from Klettenberg and Holbach, which branches off from the Uffe and the Sachsengraben at Branderode and Neuhof. This creates a fork in the Uffe, in which a part continues to flow to the Wieda and a part to the Ichte.
  3. ↑ Water quality, flowing waters 2006 , on tlug-jena.de (PDF; 412.7 kB)

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