Schutter (Danube)

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The Schutter is a left tributary of the Danube, which runs Altmühltal Nature Park in the city of Ingolstadt.

Name

The name is derived from Celtic " scutar -a" = sandy- muddy waters.

Geography

Schutter source

The Schutter rises in Wellheim in the district of Eichstätt at the western foot of the 50 -meter-high Galgenberg, a Umlaufberg radical. The karst spring of the White Jura lies at an altitude of 395 m above sea level. NN. The source pots were re-exposed as part of a restoration measure in 2007. Other sources in Wellheim reinforce the creek.

Course

The Schutter first flows through the Wellheimer arroyo, then named after her, but not formed by it Schuttertal. This has been ruled out of the ancient Danube after their term relocation from today Altmühltal towards the end of Rißeiszeit; Danube gravels are about seven meters below the present valley bottoms of muck.

It flows through the towns of Wellheim, field mill, Meilenhofen, Zell an der bacon, wet rock and Dünzlau. In Ingolstadt, where since 1875 the day is done and was founded in 1970 in the moat of Ingolstadt, the Künettegraben, redirected, it opens after 31 kilometers and 34 meters downhill into the Danube.

History

The Speckberg between wet rock and Zell on the bacon was a hunting station of Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) of the Ice Age, as well as the ancient Danube Reef, on the wet Felser castle was built later. There also the Linear Pottery first traces of human settlement support has left. According to him, all epochs can be detected.

On the Schutter mountain where the Schutter leaves the Wellheimer Arroyo, is a round jump, the " Schutter ski jump ". This ring wall of 400 meters total volume was probably created in the Celtic period. The hill fort was protected on the east side by a ditch and palisade; all other pages offered by steep slopes a natural protection.

Near the Celts dug for bean ore from which they melted at the foot of the mountain Schutter iron. In later times, the ore was brought to the prince-bishop's smelter Obereichstätt after it " washed " in the muck, that had been separated from the gangue. The schutterstock about a kilometer downstream from the ski jump Schutter, today Outbound mill "belly works" ( stamping mill ) can guess from the name that it was related to the extraction of iron at Schutter mountain.

Due to frequent flooding Schutter an order was issued in the 15th century. 1853-58 and again 1926-29 the Schutter was straightened. The water-bearing bacon ditch which runs approximately parallel to the Schutter, is a drainage ditch that was created under this Schutter regulations.

The valley area of Schutter is largely undeveloped and is still partly used as grassland.

The Schutter operation up to their regulations 22 mills, one of which still 14 after made ​​the name: field mill, Sächenfartmühle, bacon mill Aumuehle, top and Unterhaidmühle, Wolkertshofer mill Moosmühle, Reinbold mill Dünzlauer mill Heindlmühle, ox mill, mill building and Spitzlmühle.

Also in Ingolstadt area were numerous mills, also other water-dependent businesses ( tanneries, slaughterhouses ) were located on the lower reaches of the Schutter. With the Brodmühle is a preserved, no longer in operation mill on the ground when Ingolstadt same. The detectable with the Sandtnermodellen Ross potions and fire water ponds of the Middle Ages are no longer available.

Openings, flow through the watercourses in fortified cities into or out of them, always make a weak point of the fortress dar. For this reason, built on the entry point of the muck in the land fortress of Ingolstadt a special plant for the defense of this neuralgic point, the so- called Schutterhof. Later the course of Schutter was moved so that it opens today just before the Schutterhof in the Künettegraben and no longer flows through the inner city area.

Inside the Schutter Court's concrete basin of the military bath were built later. In addition, the former swimming pool included the Mühlweiher of Winkler Mill. Currently (2010) the Schutterhof is transformed into a beer garden. The Künettegraben served previously in winter for skating; Today he is considered part of the glacis part of the Ingolstadt recreation area or the Ingolstadt green lung.

Others

• In Schuttertal runs a hiking and biking trail.
• In the valley there are larger fen areas. The Schutter moss is considered worthy of protection area.
• In Ingolstadt, one worships a Schutter Mother of God, which was formerly venerated in the 1470 Ingolstadt Schutter demolished chapel and now stands in the Franciscan church.
• In Schuttertal is found in Wolkertshofen with the so-called Gleßbrunnen the strongest karst springs of Eichstätt space. The sources of the five source pond promote about 700 liters per second from a great depth up. The effluent stream flows after a kilometer into the muck.