Mettenbach (Grabenbach)

The Mette Bach is a short river in the district of Sigmaringen in southern Baden -Württemberg. It rises in the wells between Simon Kohlbetterhof and the Roman old city west of Meßkirch. The creek flows after about five kilometers in Meßkirch in the grave creek that flows into the Ablach after a half mile. The Ablach is a right tributary of the Danube, to the river system of Mette Bach thus belongs.

The Simon fountain is no longer visible and taken today by underground drainage pipes. The stream occurs about 200 meters below the previous Simon fountain revealed (47 ° 58 ' 50.5 "N, 9 ° 3' 8.3 " O47.9806944444449.0523055555556 ).

After about 1.5 miles of stream inflow obtained from the former Ochsenbrunnen (47 ° 58 ' 54 " N, 9 ° 3' 56 " O47.9816666666679.0655555555556 ). Again, this is no longer visible today.

In its upper reaches the Mette Bach is also referred to as a black trench, presumably because it flows through marshy meadows.

In 2004, a restoration of a 1.4 km long section in the upper stream was carried out by the Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany. From the Swabian Albverein, local group Meßkirch, was replanted in 2004 (47 ° 59 ' 14 " N, 9 ° 5' 19" O47.9872222222229.0886111111111 ) in the central part of the valley an orchard.

In the course of Mette Bach flows through the castle to Meßkirch belonging courtyard garden. In 1981, on the left bank of the stream created in honor of the twinning of Meßkirch and Sassenage the so-called Sassenage garden whose pond from the Mette Bach fed (47 ° 59 ' 37 "N, 9 ° 6' 29" O47.9936111111119.1080555555556 ). In April 2008, he was fully recreated.

The Mette Bach then flows behind the present Sacred Heart Home to Eagle Square. There he leads underground in the coming of Heudorf pond brook, which is called from there to grave creek.

In former times the Mette Bach flowed immediately before this confluence through the garden of the Capuchin monastery ( founded in 1661 by Franz Christoph from the line Fürstenberg Meßkirch, demolished 1828) under the Loretto Chapel through ( built in 1676 /77) (47 ° 59 ' 39 " N, 9 ° 6 ' 38 " O47.9941666666679.1105555555556 ). This was dismantled in 1883 and rebuilt as a chapel of Mary's house in today's Kolpingstraße again (47 ° 59 ' 34 "N, 9 ° 6' 39" O47.9927777777789.1108333333333 ).

References to the name of the stream

Zimmerische Chronicle, mid 16th century

  • Mette Bach: Volume 2 page 81 "... and darhinder ain waal raised at the hospital anfahende and through and through, down to Mette Bach is ending. "
  • Mette Bach: Volume 4 page 298 " ... in egkthurn the garden house, against the Mette Bach. "
  • Mette Bach: Volume 4 Page 301 " ... and the roads darneben on Mette Bach umbhergehn, ..."

Etter limits of Meßkirch, 18th Century

  • Ettenbächle: On the western border between Etter " fields in the firs Öschle " and " fields in Ettenbächle Ösch ".

Topographic Map 1:50,000 of the Grand Duchy of Baden, 1849

  • Ettibach

Topographic Map 1:50,000 of the Kingdom of Württemberg, 1850

  • Ettibach

Caption taken very probably from the Baden card, since it is identical with that in the area.

Atlas of the district Meßkirch, 1872 - 1874

  • Mette Bach: At the present Sacred Heart Home

General plan of the district Meßkirch, 1873

Displays the stream course from the Gemarkungsgrenze Heudorf / Meßkirch to the mouth.

  • Mette Bach: In Won width fields.
  • In Mette Bach: Won Name

Topographic Map 1:25,000 by the Baden State Survey Office, 1925

  • Mette Bach: In approximately in the range of Gewanns In Mette Bach
  • Black Trench: In approximately in the range of Gewanns In the castle meadows

Topographic Map 1:50,000 ( TOP50 ) by Ordnance Survey of Baden- Württemberg, 2001

  • Mette Bach

Topographic Map 1:25,000 ( TOP25 ) by Ordnance Survey of Baden- Württemberg, 2003

  • Mette Bach: In approximately in the range of Gewanns In Mette Bach
  • Black Trench: In approximately in the range of Gewanns In the castle meadows

Other sites from (Fischer, 1998, page 55 ff )

  • Mette Bach: 1560, " over because Mette Bach hinuber "
  • Ettenbach 1561
  • Mettinbach, Mettinbächlein: 1683
  • Big Mettinbach, 1683, " in large Mettinbach "
  • Mette Bach, Mettenbächlin: 1690
  • Mettinbach, Mette Bach: 1694
  • Mettinbach: 1727, 1810, 1816, " At the upper Mettinbach " or "On the untern Mettinbach "
  • Möttinbach: 1747
  • Outside Mettinbach: 1747, " On äußerm Mettinbach (!) "
  • Small Mettinbach: 1747, " In the small Mettinbach "
  • Mette Bach: 1790, " ... It has the so-called Long Müller Joseph Lazy from here ... slippers or that so-called Mette Bach - water, which of the Herrschaftl. Castle Garden by the Kapuciner garden, immediately under the loretho = chapel by = and at the place in a special or stream fortlaufet ... "
  • Mette Bach: 1840
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