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The Malte ditch, Malte ditch, is a creek in the southeast of Dresden. The Malte ditch leads only episodic water.

Course

Trained as a high dam watercourse south of the railway line Dresden- Schoena is already listed in maps from the 18th century.

The Malte trench comes from the known as Malte or Maltental flat and only about 1 km long valley. Its headwaters located near the southernmost point of Dresden on the border with Dohna, Heidenau and Kreischa immediately northeast of the junction Heidenau on the A 17 It first flows in the district Lockwitz to the northeast, and then exits on to Luga. The headwaters in the area of ​​wooded Malte reason is naturally shaped. From the end of the valley at the Malte ditch flows straightened and channeled by the Elbe valley boiler. It first crosses under the road Dohnaer. Due to the high portion-wise position of the outflow profile of the Maltese Graben has only south of the road Dohnaer a natural catchment area. He also crosses the highway 172 and then runs parallel to the road Krebser than 100 meters west of this. He then turns to the north end of town location Großluga just before the road Lugaer 90 ° to the east and flows past small gardens and fields. After 1 km, it reaches the Heidenauer Street and wraps around the Hauptumspannwerk Dresden -south in the east. Northwest of the S -Bahn Dresden- point Zschachwitz it is passed under the railway line Dresden- bottom stream. From here it flows to the northeast and mündet50.99666666666713.84527777777868 in Sporbitz in the amount of street Am Lockwitzbach in the same left tributary of the Elbe. Overall, the Malte trench is a good 4 km long.

Flood

The Malte ditch one of the Dresdner waters where floods cause extensive flooding. During the floods in 2002 it came to the flooding of riparian land, fields and the areas near the railway underpass. Even for smaller and more localized heavy rain are always neighboring plots in Luga under water. For this reason, a 281,000 euro expensive retention basin at the output of Maltentals was built from the end of 2005 and set the ditch deeper and a more natural state.

Directly below this flood retention basin bridges the old country road and thus the Dresden- Teplitz Post Road Malte ditch. Margrave William I had this bridge destroyed during the Dohnaischen feud in 1402, so that the traffic running on this important route no longer Dohna, but about Pirna, which was only long made ​​later reversed.

After digging or its Malte Malte valley road in Luga, the feeder road to the Malte in Lockwitz and the road were on Lugaer trench named in Sporbitz.