Seebach (Usa)

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Seebach
River system of the USA

River system of the USA

Data
Water code DE : 248488
location Taunus

Rhine-Main lowlands


Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Usa  → Weather  → Nidda  → Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source Engelsborn
50 ° 20 ′ 4 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 15 ″  E
Source height approx.  294  m above sea level NN
muzzle in Friedberg , near the USA bridge on Gießener Strasse Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 38 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 22 ″  E 50 ° 20 ′ 38 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 22 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  133  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 161 m
Bottom slope approx. 24 ‰
length 6.7 km
Catchment area 11.84 km²
Discharge
A Eo : 11.84 km²
at the mouth
MQ
Mq
43 l / s
3.6 l / (s km²)
The Seebach coming from the west (back left) flows into the USA coming from the north (northwest) (back right);  underneath is the road bridge, in the picture is the bridge of a bicycle and footpath

The Seebach coming from the west (back left) flows into the USA coming from the north (northwest) (back right); underneath is the road bridge, in the picture is the bridge of a bicycle and footpath

The Riedgraben coming from the right (north) flows at right angles into the Seebach coming from the left (west), with an old drainage outlet in between

The Riedgraben coming from the right (north) flows at right angles into the Seebach coming from the left (west), with an old drainage outlet in between

The Seebach is a 7 km long right and west tributary of the USA . It rises from the Taunus and flows through its wooded southern slope on the outskirts of Ockstadt and pipes up its center , the flat Wetterau and mostly open spaces in Friedberg .

geography

course

The Seebach springs west of Friedberg district Ockstadt at the southeastern slope of Winterstein-Taunus comb below the Winterstein summit a wet place in the mixed forest soil in the district Engel Born as Leihgraben (and flows to a former pumping plant for drinking water production over).

It could owe this name to the cultivation of flax for the production of flax fiber and the necessary roasting of the flat stalks in the clean, cold water of the brook before it would have been polluted when flowing through a place. The field name Waschbach / Auf der Waschbach across from the confluence of Hardbäumchesweg with Usinger Straße probably also refers to this .

The Leihgraben changes its name in Ockstadt to Beunebach and at the latest in Friedberg in Seebach .

Nameless temporary stream system

Northwest of Engelsborn and about 90-100 meters higher are the sources of nameless streams on a steep hump in the slope of the Winterstein , which, shortly before, flow into the Leihgraben from the left in front of the federal motorway 5 . Before the four-lane construction of today's six-lane, eight-lane motorway with stopping strips, the estuary was lower and closer to Ockstadt. These high-altitude springs pour only intermittently, around the end of winter.

The highest spring is on a little-used forest path that accompanies this hump in the east , west of Usinger Straße in the Hinterwald district . The small stream flows through a dense spruce spruce and reaches Usinger Straße via a pool , which is crossed by a forest path below a bend. A water protection area begins to the southwest . The stream is presumably led diagonally under Usinger Straße and reaches a moory swamp forest area that is dominated by birch trees . At the edge of a spruce protection, the brook leaves the Bruch and pours into an old run , which on a mountain bike trail from the left (north-west) into a dry run from Usinger Strasse (it seems to have extended further eastwards in the past ) opens . 50 meters it will meet with the passage of a main forest road, about 200 meters, after passing through a shock -old spruce, mostly victims of wind throw, the official and year round bulk border source of northeastern Quellasts this Leihgraben-feed. At , the stream is dammed by a dam over which a forest path leads. About 150 meters further the gully finally loses its character of an incision and right ends a temporary water leading brook from a west lying pond with two outlets whose second, southwestern, outlet will unite near the highway with this branch. About 200 meters further, the north-eastern branch meets a main forest path from the Wintersteinstraße from Bad Nauheim to the Forsthaus Winterstein restaurant , which serves as an access for motorized vehicles to the 'Usinger Straße', which is blocked by truncated pyramids made of reinforced concrete above the motorway bridge Relic from the time when the American armored forces from the Friedberger Ray Baracks used the forest as a training area. Below the path there is a clear cut, a result of clearing up a windthrow area from a spruce log. After about 150 meters, in the remaining (deciduous) forest edge on the motorway, the stream is diverted into a ditch leading southwards, into which the southwest branch from the right flows after a few dams .

The second highest spring is located near the little-used forest path east of the steep hump and west of Usinger Straße in the Hinterwald district . The stream flows eastward over a south-sloping abandoned forest path, on which part of its water flows off, and then along the northern edge of a forest meadow. Through a dense spruce protection, it reaches a deciduous forest, where it joins the brook from the third highest spring .

The third highest spring is located at the confluence of a little-used forest path and mountain bike trails in a forest path of the same type, which comes down from the brook from the second highest spring with part of its water. At times it gushes out of the grass-covered ground, most of the time the water simply flows out of it. It soon reaches a short run leading eastwards. After merging with the brook from the second highest spring, they strive together towards Usinger Straße , where a ditch takes over the water and prevents it from reaching a system of runways in the east. It is directed into the ditch on the west side of Usinger Straße , from where it is directed 100 meters further diagonally under the road to the east. The occasionally flowing brook is crossed by a mountain bike trail and pours into a broken forest. This constantly feeds water into the pond with the two outlets south of the clump of old spruce on the northeastern branch and thus forms the source for the southwestern branch. About 20 meters to the south-west there are other springs, the drainage of which flows into the south-west branch after a few dams from the right . At a distance of about 40 or 50 meters parallel to the north-eastern branch, the south-westerly one flows towards the forest path, passes through the clear-cut area and joins the ditch on the motorway with the north-eastern branch at from the right. After about 75 meters, the trench from the left opens in Seebach upper reaches of the Angel Born, who is left here under the highway.

Loan ditch

Two floors passage

In 2019 the spring pours less, because about 100 m below it there is a pumping station on an unpaved forest path for the extraction of drinking water for a former refugee camp from the end of World War II on the site of the later Bundeswehr depot (today the crocodile farm ) Feeding funnel digs up the source of water. After another 200 m in a fine, stony creek bed , it meets Usinger Straße, an old connecting path between the Wetterau and the upper Usatal and Usingen , and now accompanies you in the ditch for about a meter to a forest path that flows into it. It covers a culvert structure: on the ground floor it goes diagonally to the left under Usinger Straße and on the upper floor the passage is straight ahead into the ditch that continues under the unpaved forest path. Naturally, only high water can flow straight ahead, which can no longer be taken up by the pipe to the other side of the road and could therefore accumulate high enough. On the other side of the street, the Leihgraben has a stilling basin specially reinforced with basalt stones and a creek bed covered with basalt gravel, which accompanies Usinger Straße for a few meters and then turns left, towards the east. Here the slope becomes steeper. The Leihgraben follows the route marked out by the basalt gravel up to the federal motorway 5 . The other source branch of the lending trench joins there from the left and northwest. The combined stream then crosses under the A5 in a wide concrete pipe.

Wg. Irrigation of the quarry at Landhaus Reuss
In the alluvial forest
First inflow (from the right)

On the side facing Ockstadt side of the A5 turn the Leihgraben right immediately to the south and into a basin with short PVC - drainpipe . (West) protrude to the basin for highway embankment towards two manholes of the forest floor, one of which via a lateral ground-sheet flap has at one of its standardized cylinder rings through which it Seebach water from the reservoir can hold. This is fed via a pipeline to the lake in the former quarry at Landhaus Reuss (also known locally as a tire-seer , after a local car accessories shop). After crossing under a path (an old wine or wagon road, known as (Alte) Butzbacher or (Alte) Wetzlarer Straße ) it accompanies an access path to this with an oak grove on the left and an orchard on the right. After crossing under Usinger Strasse again and entering a former Bundeswehr depot, the Leihgraben reaches the edge of an orchard meadow, the Sauweide (or older Sauwassen ), and then an alluvial forest next to the Wetterau (disabled) workshops . The surface runoff from the storage areas of the workshops is directed into it. Two now dry hollows with layers of mud in the bottom prove the existence of ponds. It is due to a lack of care (keeping the inflow free). Potential flooding flows into this area, which could swirl through the upper floor of the culvert further up on Usinger Strasse. It flowed through the Usinger road ditch to the parking lot at the bridge over the motorway and crossed under a forest path to be connected to an artificially created ditch. Water from the winter stone slope, which follows the ditch on a main forest path, reaches another passage. This temporary water flow meets the new ditch at . On the remaining path to the south, parallel to the motorway, further streams from the Taunushang flow from the right, west. At the passage under the A 5 , two more streams come together, from the west and from the southwest, those under the A 5 and under the former BW depot (currently a "crocodile zoo / alligator action farm" according to development plan no In the rattle fir from October 2004). On the Ockstadt side, the passage emerges at a barbecue, festival and football field, the old sports field . Almost parallel to its access road, the ditch with the flood reaches the rifle house, where it is led under the shooting lanes (also) into the alluvial forest. At about 5.0 km (re) united, the Hardbäumchesweg is crossed in a passage made with two pipes. The Leihgraben finally leaves the wooded Taunus and moves into the fields of Friedberger Wetterau .

Above and below the Hardbäumchesweg, surface runoff from road ditches is channeled into the lending ditch. East of the street, between Leihgraben in the south and Usinger Straße in the north, the last Ockstadt quarry ( quartzite ) was in operation until 1912 . Today it ran full of groundwater and is used for private recreation. Access is from the Ulmenweg . To the east there is a new building area with the Ulmenweg (development plan No. 03 Ockstadt West from May 1976). It ends in the east with the Schmelzweg going south over the Leihgraben to a dirt road continues via bridge (the Leihgraben accompanied almost parallel a path to path from Hardbäumchesweg to Rosbacher road , at the same time, and partly the northern boundary of the development plan no. 49 Ockstadt golf course from July 2000). A 20 kV overhead line begins or ends here in a metal lattice mast and rises a few meters away in a forest of springs, a small stream that flows through a plastic pipe from the right and south into the lending ditch with a half-meter-deep fall . The Leihgraben is cut differently deep and wide into the ground, old fruit trees and long gone cut willows accompany him. The valley makes a neglected impression, but also shows steep banks with small caves.

Drinking water production in Leihgraben-Florence

On its way, the Leihgraben passes another drinking water well at km 4.4 with a flow rate of around 140,000 m³ / year, this time to supply Ockstadt. Below, to the east, is a meadow with a spring. Their water maintains a shallow pond with bushes in a 300 ° curve of the brook or ditch, in which the rare knot-flowered celery grows. The outflow of the pond is captured about 30 meters from a flexible corrugated plastic drainage pipe, which ends after about 15 meters left on the banks of Leihgrabens. A little below, at 4.1 km, a footbridge leads over the Leihgraben, which connects the farm, the former Ober- or Weidmannsmühle , to which the pond belongs, and the fields (fruit plantation, mostly no longer tall trees). The pond used to be connected to the lending ditch via a filled ditch and a reservoir (mill pond) , the water content of which was needed to "start up" the mill. (The mill operation is said to have taken place via a separate mill canal , which it shared with other mills. The smelting mill stood directly on the bank, the rubble of which is still in and on the Leihgraben.) Below this is the Leihgraben valley, the northern border of the Corridor Am Leihgraben , with even more impenetrable vegetation. There are high trunks of fruit trees among them, as well as remnants of fences, which are features of gardens. The lending ditch finally reaches the "Ockstadt screwdriver hall " , north of the Rosbacher Hohl corridor , a car repair shop on Rosbacher Straße (L 3134). It is led under a company building and the street.

To the east it is accompanied on the right or south side by the path Am Leihgraben , which has a water-bound ceiling. On the left or north bank the Ockstädter Schloss will soon appear, a former moated castle with later extensions and in its entirety today a cultural monument to which a bridge leads. Another allows access to Gartenstrasse (here there is a device for damming the Seebach by means of planks or slides guided in grooves in the bridge abutments), a third allows access to private property. At the end, the Leihgraben flows into an elaborate intake structure in front of Friedberger Straße . Behind it it is piped and changes its name to Beunebach .

Beunebach

Entrance into the Beunebach at the back

The Beunebach got its name from a friend . Right from the beginning of the stream section, Beunestrasse is paved over it (see Nahehochstrasse B 41 in Oberstein ) until the intersection at the new sports ground with Wiesenstrasse . Above ground, the Beunebach now follows Beunestraße, a connecting path and finally a detour to Friedberger Straße , until the beginning of 2019 on the left bank of trees , until it first turns north on the outskirts and after about 200 meters, when you meet the Äppelwoiweg , course right to the east and Friedberg increases, parallel to and south of it. The Beune continues as a field name south of the new sports field to today's Kreisstraße 12 to Friedberg. With the development plan No. 52 on the left of Bäumchesweg , it was built on from the mid-1990s. In 2009, the Beunebach was redesigned in a natural way on a stretch of 300–350 m in front of the Äppelwoiweg to compensate for the interventions through the implementation of the development plan no. 72 Ockstadt sports hall from 2005.

Until modern times, the water of the Beunebach has been used to irrigate agricultural areas, the Allmendstück , in the now built-up Ockstädter east (starting with partial development according to development plan no. 5 at the sports field from 1969 - it contains "The Gänsgärten" in the corridor still the water parcel 1220/2 of the Mühlkanal leading to the confluence of Rosenstrasse in Allmendstrasse - and continued by development plan no. 5b "Allmendteile eastern part" from 1993). The multitude of canals had been maintained, the water flow regulated.

The overflow from the rain retention basin for the local sewer system in Ockstadt flows into the Seebach with a mighty surge and many "civilization remains" that remain in the brambles, although it is removed annually (due to hydraulic cross-section).

To the east of the Allmendstücks, the city has created a rainwater retention basin for the local sewer system north of km 2.75 (area of ​​application 2 of the development plan no. 52 links to Bäumchesweg ). Its overflow (RÜ) flows at km 2.7 into the Seebach, which is fortified here by walls on both sides. Deswg. When it rains, extreme flood-like drains with faeces and hygiene items enter the stream and with it openly into the district town of Friedberg. These floods endanger the existence of the banks and worsen the water quality in Usa, Wetter, Nidda etc. (The sewage collecting line from Ockstadt to the sewage treatment plant in Friedberg was laid under the Äppelwoiweg, which is mostly paved with concrete blocks, the ceiling of which is in the area of ​​the newly built overpass the B 3 / B 455 is paved.) The banks of the Seebach are stabilized by a large number of old alders (occasionally substituted by willows ).

Clean Pentecostal fountain water

Here, 500 meters after reaching the Äppelwoiweg, the Seebach passes under the new federal highways 3 and 455 . In the south-eastern (or second) quadrant of this intersection, a hollow was dug and fenced in to accommodate surface runoff from the federal road. It can absorb road runoff from south of the Seebach and has an emergency drainage into the Seebach in the event of an excessive inflow. About 150 meters below the main road, at km 2.2, joins from the left (north) of the trench by the fats reason (it could be a reference to the former Haingraben have, who took up the water of the Pentecostal well before the industrial revolution and the bleach on the site of today's Ockstädter open-air swimming pool). This is so remarkable because there is another occurrence of knotty celery in the ditch. The ditch begins north of Waldstrasse on the northwestern outskirts of Ockstädter in an abundant pouring and contained spring, which is fed by the Pfingstbrunnen , whose well room is located in a building just outside the village on the extension of Pfingstbrunnenstrasse to the west. (And which also supplies the Ockstadt open-air swimming pool with cold water?) The ditch runs about 75 meters northwards into the Kirschenberg and turns right and east. After about 50 meters there is a paddock on the left. The first occurrence of knotty celery is found here. By expanding the cemetery northwards, the ditch now runs through it and under a dirt road along the northern edge of the buildings. To do this, he must cross under the state road 3134 and overcome a subsequent 50-meter-long pipeline. At an agricultural multi-purpose hall on the northeastern edge of the village, the ditch turns right to the south and 40 meters further to the left, in the original direction eastwards, under the B 3 / B 455. About 250 meters further, it turns one last time, to the right and south, and after 40 meters flows under the Äppelwoiweg through from the left into the Seebach.

Seebach

Below the Seewiese, the Seebach is squeezed into a paved bed

Between Ockstadt and Friedberg the Leihgraben / Beunebach changes its name one last time and becomes Seebach . (It got this name from a lake or pond on the western outskirts of Friedberg, for example where a parking lot and the gym of the Philipp-Dieffenbach-Schule are today. This lake was last used to cool ice for the storage cellars of the To produce beer breweries on the west side of Friedberg's old town when there were no refrigerators .)

At 1.9 km, the Seebach crosses Johann-Peter-Schäfer-Straße including the district boundary and begins to flow in the built-up area of ​​the district town of Friedberg. 30 meters further on, the mostly dry Weilerwiesengraben flows from the northwest, diagonally to the left . Between the town hall on the right and the Henry-Benrath-Schule on the left, you reach the street Am Seebach . And just below the road bridge, the first city-blooming celery grows. The Seebach swings north over the Seewiese in about a quarter of a circle (radius about ¼ km) . In the beginning, despite the paved banks in places, it makes a life-friendly impression with further occurrences of knot-flowered celery and other vegetation. After crossing under a footpath and cycle path from Ockstädter Straße to Mörler Straße , you come to a piece of gallery forest that is so dense that the ground is free of vegetation. Below the bridge in the extension of Neutorgasse there are technical structures (abutments) in the bank that can accommodate gate valves (boards or planks) and thus cause a traffic jam. Another brick or concrete bank reinforcement is located on the ski club building , where there is a footbridge that leads to a fork in the road with stairs up to the Villiers-sur-Marne promenade in front of the western city wall with a passage to Badgasse . Underneath there is another dense gallery forest that is hostile to life. To the west is the old sports and parade ground of the former city barracks on the east side of Friedberg (formerly opposite the first train station, which has now given way to a parking garage). In winter, the square is flooded with Seebach water, so that sometimes, when the winter is sufficiently cold, an ice surface is created. The water is fed back into the Seebach (it probably flows constantly, even under the ice cover), which crosses a footpath and now reaches the development on Mörler Straße . It flows quickly in a narrow walled bed in a north-easterly direction to the culvert under Mörler Strasse.

The Seebach under the Kreisstraße 13 to Bad Nauheim is passed through in a specially built tunnel for the bike and footpath above, the RÜ is hidden on the left

Below it, it flows in a straightened bed with a floor partially fortified by masonry basalt stones towards the USA, while at a distance it encircles Friedberg Castle and Gießener Straße . Knotted celery grows in several places in this section. In front of Burgfeldstrasse or K  13 there used to be a sales house for cars above the Seebach. After its demolition, the area was re-regulated by development plan No. 90 Im Ohrloch - Part II from January 2016, and with it the course of the Seebach, which underwent a certain renaturation and fortification of the banks with large limestone, as well as the construction of a traffic area in the form of a ford with lime stepping stones. In addition, the RÜ of a rain retention basin joins this area at an angle, where the Seebach makes a slight right turn and begins to flow to the northeast. Before the outflow of the RÜ, knot-blooming celery as an indicator for the nitrate and phosphate load of the sewage, associated with the creek bungee . The bottom of the stream is formed by a bed of gravel. The Seebach reaches the Usa floodplain under the K 13. The Riedgraben joins at right angles from the left and north in front of a bridge of a walking and cycling path that has only limited load-bearing capacity . Below the bridge on the left is an old inn, which arose from a mill that once rattled on the Usa when it still flowed past here. Between a (flat) line of Grabeland and the steep bank of the Burgberg up to Gießener Straße and the castle, the Seebach, which has been fortified many times and sometimes in vain, forces itself to the United States. It flows into it from the right below a girder bridge for a foot and cycle path above Friedberg.

Tributaries

  • Weilerwiesengraben ( left ), 1.5 km
Mouth of the Weilerwiesengraben
A mostly dry drainage ditch in a meadow landscape, with a few trees (willows, alders) and bushes ( blackberries ), almost entirely located in the district of Ockstadt, at a horticultural company between Ockstadt and Bad Nauheim, starting near the L 3134 and heading east, later leading southeast. Here flow at 153  m above sea level. NN in the cut a pipe coming from the west, a drainage often carrying water (from the right, from the south, from the courtyard buildings) and two more mostly dry trenches. One comes from the left, accompanying a path, from beyond the L 3134 down from the Ockstädter Kirschenberg , the other comes at right angles from the right from the north of Ockstadt (where underground precipitation runoff from the Kirschenberg in the Aue?), Accompanying an unpaved path, taking in further drainage ditches from the Kirschenberg. Since the construction of the B 3 / B 455 bypass, the Weilerwiesengraben has crossed it in a bridge-like structure that is permeable to game (2008, around km 1.0). During the construction of the Johann-Peter-Schäfer (blind) school of the State Welfare Association of Hesse in the 1980s (development plan no.14 Unter'm Halbmond from 1985), the dirt road running on the local border between Friedberg and Ockstadt was paved and turned into a road , the Weilerwiesengraben to the east was moved into a wide hollow and a new culvert was built under Johann-Peter-Schäfer-Straße at the entrance to the school for the blind. Under a flat girder bridge of the Äppelwoiweg it flows from the left into the Seebach (km 1.9), now on the edge of the district town of Friedberg and at 146  m above sea level. NN .
  • Riedgraben ( left ), 1.5 km
Origin from the Ockstädter Ried
B 3 does not separate, passage is accessible
A mostly dry drainage ditch in a meadow landscape, slightly covered with trees (willows, alders) and bushes (blackberries), running in the districts of Ockstadt and Friedberg, in the protected part of the Ockstädter Ried landscape between Ockstadt and Bad Nauheim, near the L 3134 at 147  m ü. Beginning NN and leading to the east. Since the construction of the B 3 / B 455 and the connection of the planned B 275 to the local bypass (OU), a ditch flows into the Ockstädter Ried. It absorbs both waste water from the OU and precipitation runoff from the Ockstädter Kirschenberg . At km 1.4 it passes under a low girder bridge (built in 2008) under the bypass, which at the same time allows game to pass under it (footprints in the clay of the creek bed, which keeps drying out). On the outskirts of Friedberg, at about 1.0 km, after crossing a field path in a culvert, a spring (from the Pfaffenbrunnen ?) Or a drainage opens into the reed ditch, which is widened like a basin . The pool is full of creek bungees and algae are visible at the outlet . This inflow means that the Riedgraben always carries water on its last kilometer. Here begins an urban environment with grave land and technical buildings (fenced retention basin). The first occurrence of knot-bloomed celery occurs around km 0.85. From here the Riedgraben flows through Friedberg, here the districts of Ockstadt, Friedberg and Bad Nauheim meet at one point. For the new construction of the B 3 / B 455 bypass, the K 13 between Friedberg and Bad Nauheim had to be routed over this, at the same time the old lime tree avenue on the former had to be preserved, so that it was swiveled eastwards and received a connection pipe to the main road. For this purpose, the old passage of the Riedgraben under the K 13 was renewed. At its inlet and outlet, the celery lives again, at the sunny inlet it is associated with brook bungees and willowherb . For the next 100 meters or so, the Riedgraben is lined with trees (mostly alders) on both sides. At the beginning of the allotment garden area Grüne Lunge (development plan no.34 permanent allotment gardens on the Ohrlochsweg from 1995) the Riedgraben swings for ten meters north to the left and immediately to the right in the original (north) east direction. After almost 200 meters there is another right turn, now in a southerly direction. The sports field begins again almost 200 meters further on at Burgfeldstrasse or K 13. Here it represents the winding border to the permanent allotment gardens. From km 0.8, approximately at the level of the jump pit for the long jump, it begins to flow over the area of ​​the sports field - 30 m far. Then 80 meters of piping begins. At the edge of the sports field and next to the Söder (walking and cycling) path leading past the fence of the sports field to the east , it comes to light again and again provides a livelihood for knotted celery. At the corner of a fenced club area, it flows at 138  m above sea level. NN at km 0.3 at right angles from the left into the Seebach.

Usa River System

places

The Seebach flows through these two villages:

Hydraulic structures

Mills

At least three watermills were on the loan ditch. They were connected to each other via a mill canal. It began far before Ockstadt, above the Waschbach corridor. Where the Wetterau workshops are today, there was a stagnant body of water, a mill pond , until the 1960s . Another existed east of the Schmelzweg on an area a few meters higher than that

Remains of the smelting mill in the lending trench
  • Smelting mill
Initially a hammer mill in which iron ore was smelted, it was later converted into a grain mill. It was abandoned towards the end of the 19th century and later demolished. Debris from her can still be found today in and on the loan ditch. From here the Mühlkanal continued with only a slight gradient to the
  • Ober- or Weidmannsmühle
It was separated from the Leihgraben on the Bachhohl , today a section between Bachgasse and Usinger Straße . It existed until the 20th century and was last electrically powered. Today the original half- timbered mill building has been torn down, there are living quarters and stables around the courtyard facing the street. The Mühlkanal continued its course between Bachgasse (hence the name) and the buildings on it. After about 200 m the Mühlkanal loosened to the south, crossed under Rosbacher Strasse and emptied into the moat of the former moated castle. On the south-eastern corner was the
  • Castle mill
The Mühlkanal flowed off to the north and after about 25 meters turned east onto today's Schlossstrasse . After about 150 meters the Nauheimer or Friedberger Strasse was reached, where the Mühlgraben turned north-east to the Allmendteile to contribute to their irrigation.

In Friedberg, on the Seebach, below the Seewiese, on the Mörler Strasse coming from the south gate of the castle , and just below the Thicken Tower, built around 1500, was the

  • Sea mill
This was not used for grinding, but worked as a pumping station operated by the water of the Seebach, which supplied the castle with drinking water. The mill building still stands today in an inhabited row of houses as well as modern extensions. In front of him, the Seebach rushes through a steep walled channel that flows under Mörler Strasse into a straight section of the Seebach.

References and comments

  1. Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
  2. Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 139 Frankfurt a. M. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.9 MB)
  3. Google Earth
  4. Topographic map 1: 25,000 (TK25) 5618 Friedberg (Hessen) from 1990
  5. a b Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  6. Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology: Retention cadastre for the Seebach river basin  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hlug.de  
  7. ^ According to the Ockstadt History Association
  8. Friedberger "Farm" offers 28 alligators for sale on the Internet , by Jürgen Wagner, Gießener Allgemeine , February 28, 2018
  9. Drinking water supply in Friedberg , Stadtwerke Friedberg (Hessen)
  10. Ober- or Weidmannsmühle , Prussian New Admission
  11. Legend of the Prussian New Admission
  12. ↑ A natural remodeling of the Beunebach at the authorities , at the executing company , in the press
  13. Spring water swimming pool Ockstadt
  14. BW 3104 UF Weilerwiesengraben , engineering office for bridge planning
  15. Description of many sights in several places in western Wetterau

Web links

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