Winzinger Wassergescheid
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 Winzinger Wassergescheid: The Speyerbach continues to flow to the right, the less wide Rehbach emerges on the left at the back. |
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| place | Neustadt an der Weinstrasse | |
| Architectural style | Sandstone cuboid | |
| Construction year | before 1551 new construction 1569 renovation 1745 |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 21 '20.1 " N , 8 ° 9' 16.5" E | |
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The Winzinger Wassergescheid , in literature sometimes - - misleading Winzinger watershed is called a from sandstone quadern built hydraulic structure , with a bifurcation of the Rhineland-Palatinate Speyerbach was created. A third of the incoming water of the Speyerbach flows off via the 29 km long left lower branch of the Rehbach , which begins here . Almost 14 km further north than this, the Rehbach flows into the Rhine from the left .
After the Speyerbach emerges from the low mountain range of the Palatinate Forest , its mean water flow at the level at the entrance to the Palatinate town of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse is around 2.4 m³ / s ( MQ ); the peak value measured so far was 19.5 m³ / s on May 25, 1978. This amount of water changes only insignificantly on the short distance through the city and reaches the water level shortly before the city exit.
geography
The Winzinger Wassergescheid at 130 m above sea level. NHN Höhe in the northeast of Neustadt is named after the Winzingen district there. At the junction of Speyerbach (to the right, southeast) and Rehbach (to the left, northeast) the new building of the Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium was put into operation in 1969 .
history
The name expresses that at this point the water of the Speyerbach is divided, i.e. the brook is divided into two watercourses.
The oldest evidence of the Winzinger Wassergescheid comes from 1551, when Emperor Charles V confirmed the privileges of the imperial city of Speyer and the local episcopal monastery concerning the Speyerbach ; the facility in Winzingen was also mentioned here. Because the medieval history was in need of repair, it was rebuilt from scratch in 1569. This happened according to a contract between Elector Friedrich III. of the Palatinate and the Speyer bishop Marquard von Hattstein ; the bishop undertook to assume two thirds of the construction costs; the cost allocation corresponds to the amount of water that benefits the episcopal city of Speyer with the Speyerbach.
A horizontally triangular memorial stone that divides the flow of water bears two carved inscriptions referring to the renovations in 1569 and 1745:
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On a smaller - earlier built - stone below the triangular stone there is now illegible carving, which apparently contains the original text of the Rehbach page. This was deciphered towards the end of the 19th century by the local history researcher Lukas Grünenwald (1858–1937), who was a teacher at the Neustadt Humanist High School until 1895, which is now called Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium:
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US BEUDEN CHUR AND FÜRSTEN |
The text carved on the Rehbach side in 1745 differs from the original text from 1569 probably because the older text was already difficult to read during the renovation work in 1745. A text version similar to the Grünenwald source contains the tourist book for Heidelberg and the surrounding area from 1834; however, because of the additional line at the beginning, it does not seem to be based on the author's own observation:
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HERE WE ARE BOTH |
Web links
- Location of the Winzinger Wassergescheid on: Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- Photo of the Winzinger Wassergescheid by Josef Hermann on panoramio.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d The Winzinger Wassergescheid near Neustadt. speyerbach.info, accessed February 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Heinrich Maria Sauer: At the Winzinger watershed . In: The Rhine Palatinate . Local editorial office Neustadt. Ludwigshafen ( speyerbach.info - 1950s).
- ^ Carl Cäsar von Leonhard: Tourist book for Heidelberg and the surrounding area. 1834, p. 346 , accessed February 12, 2015 .