Wash (source)
| Laundry | |
|---|---|
 The wash looking towards the west, May 2015. In the back, the stepping stones used for the crossing are visible. |
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| location | |
| Country or region | Braunschweig ( Lower Saxony ) |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 12 ′ 31 ″ N , 10 ° 28 ′ 5 ″ E |
| height | 84 m above sea level NHN |
| geology | |
| Mountains | North German Lowlands |
| rock | chalk |
| Hydrology | |
| River system | Weser |
| Receiving waters | Thiedebach → Oker → Aller → Weser → North Sea |
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 31 ″ N , 10 ° 28 ′ 5 ″ E
The Wasche is a spring pond in the center of the Braunschweig district of Geitelde , in Lower Saxony .
The spring is now attached to the bank area and partly in the bottom and is used as a recreation and play area. Its water initially flows underground and outside the settlement as a straightened ditch to the east and further south on a short route through the Geitelder Feldmark to the Thiedebach , a tributary of the Oker . In some references the stream is as Renne referred.
The spring, which never freezes over, is like the place on the southern slope of the Geitelder Berg , a chalk formation that extends north and northeast. The pond extends over 40 m in a west-east direction, is fully integrated into the settlement and surrounded by a courtyard and residential buildings. Stone islands are built into the pond, over which you can playfully cross the water. Until 1940 this spring served as a washing place and watering place for horses and then as a fire water pond .
Surname
The origin of the name Wasche suspects Blume to be related to laundry , but not necessarily as a primitive name. Rather, it suggests that the place name Geitelde , which is passed down with Getlithi in 1067 , can be traced back to the Germanic word Gatil-lithi . This would be a derivation from the water name Gatila , which means something like "the flowing through". It is therefore possible that the place name is derived from the original name of the water body.
Web links
- Wasche-Quelle - map display. openstreetmap.org, accessed May 11, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 83 .
- ↑ A horse washing place. In: wordpress.com. Retrieved May 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Herbert Blume : Oker, Schunter, Wabe. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. Volume 86, 2005, p. 28 ff.