Walkstrom

The Walk stream crosses under the inner wall of the Erfurt city fortification

Template: Infobox River / Obsolete

The Walk current is an arm of Gera in the western city of Erfurt. Was named the Walk current well of a fulling mill located there, this type of mill was used for cloth finishing or in the tanning of leather. The walk was part of a power already incurred in the High Middle Ages, water distribution system.

Plans and descriptions of many hydraulic structures are in the city archives Erfurt, they allow a meter accurate reconstruction of the original, in today's cityscape barely visible portions of the former mill and moats. The Walk current flows parallel to the stretch of road Espachstraße - Gustav -Adolf-Straße - Melanchthonstraße Fischer sand.

The Walk current branches in the southwest of Erfurt from between Cyriak and Espachstraße of Gera, was used to regulate the water flow there, the Espachwehr. His provisional target is located on the Long Bridge, behind which he reunited with the Gera and from then flows as a broad stream through the center of Erfurt's old.

The mill race to the Carthusian mill - also called Carthusian River - carries the water to the water-filled moat of the city's fortifications, section Little King trench. Its passage was barred ( well name on the form ) inserted at the crescent lock in the city walls. If necessary, this fresh water could be introduced into the moat. Close behind the city wall was followed by the Carthusian mill. The Hanegraben - - After this a first connecting trench to Gera followed to supply this artisan district with hot water. After about fifty meters, the mill race divided into the western ditch - Walk current and the eastern ditch - Hirsch pool. The Walk current hit is now on the Neuwerk mill and at a distance of several hundred meters on the eponymous fulling mill. Again hit the Walk current to a weir, it deprived him of water for the holler, which enabled the Low Mill, and einmündete at Bird Bridge in the Gera.

Also the Roßwehr lay on the Gera. This led to the current Walk in the Wild Gera. But his water could be diverted to the broad power in the here branching off to the north by the mill race lowering a lock. Already in 1898 the Wilde Gera was filled from Luther Street.

Merian representation

The view contained in the copper engraving by Matthäus Merian Collection of Erfurt provides an insight into the domestic water supply and the location of mills and moats of the city of Erfurt to the 1650.

Where: ( 1) Gera, (2) Bergstrom, (3) Carthusian flow, (4) Gera, ( 5) Hahne trench (6 ) deer Pool, ( 7) Walk Power, ( 8) Wilde Gera, (9 ) mill race / width Gera.