Klettenberger Mühlgraben

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Klettenberger Mühlgraben
mostly just "Mühlgraben" for a short time (especially Uffe and Halebach)
Data
Water code DE : 5648148
location Nordhausen district , Thuringia ( Germany )
River system Elbe
Drain over Ichte  → Helme  → Unstrut  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source between Branderode and Klettenberg am Eselsberg
51 ° 33 ′ 55 ″  N , 10 ° 35 ′ 47 ″  E
Source height approx.  260  m above sea level NHN
muzzle near Holbach in die Ichte Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 55 "  N , 10 ° 36 ′ 42"  E 51 ° 31 ′ 55 "  N , 10 ° 36 ′ 42"  E
Mouth height 206.2  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 53.8 m
Bottom slope approx. 11 ‰
length 5 km
Reservoirs flowed through Flood retention basin HRB Holbach
Communities Hohenstein

The (Klettenberger) Mühlgraben , historically also called Uffe , is an approximately 5 km long, north-north-west and orographically left tributary of the Ichte in the Thuringian district of Nordhausen .

Course and catchment area

The Mühlgraben begins on the border between Thuringia and Lower Saxony in the Southern Harz Nature Park, not far from the Uffe River , from which it was once artificially branched off. Its origin lies north of the Hohenstein district of Klettenberg at about 260  m above sea level. NHN on the eastern slope of Eselsberg ( 278.6  m ) - a few meters before a bridge on Kreisstraße  9.

The current flowing mainly to the south-southeast mill stream passes through the Hohenstein districts Klettenberg and Holbach to shortly thereafter - about 300 meters south of the Holbacher Wiesenmuhle  - at 206.2  m height in the helmets influx gel density to open .

The catchment area of the Mühlgraben is very strongly shaped by karst phenomena (several pool springs and infiltration sections).

history

The Klettenberger Mühlgraben was artificially created in the 17th century as a branch from the Uffe , which strives towards the Wieda and is called Sachsengraben in the lower reaches . The branch is located near the of Lower Saxony Bad Sachsa belonging Neuhof . By 1961 the water in Klettenberg and Holbach drove up to ten mills. The Mühlgraben crossed the watershed between the Uffe and Ichte in a north-south direction using small hollows .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Topographic map 1: 25,000
  2. ↑ www.thueringer-fernwasser.de
  3. ↑ a b Memory of an almost forgotten medieval engineering achievement , from October 25, 2012, accessed on March 16, 2012, on walkenrieder-nachrichten.com

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