Batschke

The Batschke ( shown in red ) in the Leipzig waters node

Batschke (red) and Flößereinutzung (yellow) on a map in 1880

Mouth into the sediment rich Splices

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The Batschke, their historical use for even Floßgraben or officially Batschke - called Floßgraben, was one of the many tributaries in the anastomosing river Weiße Elster. She was interrupted in the 1970s by the mining Zwenkau. Your headwaters should be re- covered from around 2005 with a reduction of water from the White Elster after a planning, is to this day but dry. The underflow since 2000 powered by the Lauer Grenzgraben and clearly applied after completion of the water network Cospuden forest pool Lauer → → Batschke again.

Former course

The Batschke chain west of the Zwenkauer local part Kotzschbar the Old Magpie defense of the White Elster and flowed from the eastern outskirts of Elsteraue by Zwenkau through.

South of Budigaß they split into two branches, of which the eastern still followed the edge of the valley and flowed at Prödel and Zöbigker over. It was used for rafts and was therefore Floßgraben. The western run parted again for a short distance at Cospuden and flowed around this.

Shortly before the reunification with the Floßgraben between the Markkleeberger districts Gautzsch, Zöbigker and the Good Lauer (belonging since 1920 to the city of Leipzig) branched from the Batschke another tributary from - the Paußnitz.

In Gautzsch the Batschke fed the now dry moat, which included the manor, and then flowed west on Wolfswinkel over a wooded area west of Raschwitz. Then the Batschke reached the Council wood, where they eventually northwest of the Altarmes Panichs pool resulted in the splices in the Leipzig district Conne joke.

Today's course

The Batschke today is not a tributary of the White Elster and more only leads in the underflow from Gautzsch water. Upper and middle reaches have dried out or devastated by lignite mining. In the area of their former middle reaches are today Zwenkauer and Cospuden. The border between Markham and Leipzig in the amount of the former Paußnitzabzweigs still marks the historical course of Batschke.

With the connection of the boundary ditch in the amount of Kees'schen parks Batschke was east of Waldbads Lauer renatured ( a former gravel pit ), while the dry fallen through the open pit, a southerly location of their lower reaches remained in devastiertem state. With the inflow of Waldbads the same north-east, it widens and opens into the splices later.

Hydromorphology

The Batschke had a length of about ten kilometers and had an average of five meters wide. The water again today leading underflow ( Floßgraben ) is 1960 m long and has a mean discharge of about one cubic meter per second.

Due to the agricultural land use in the catchment area of ​​the White Elster since the band ceramists about 7000 years ago and the accelerated erosion of the river is very rich in fine sediments such as sand and silt. The Weisse Elster has therefore deposited in the lowlands about four meters thick clay layers in its riverbed, which has a width of several kilometers.

The so-called alluvial fans did not grow it evenly into the air. Rather, the river sediment in the immediate vicinity, to backwaters and laughter in the rest of the wide valley were somewhat lower. Especially after floods, the river shifted its main run regularly back into the now lower-lying areas until these were filled with sediment.

These conditions favored the formation of a widely ramified, ever-changing river network with numerous tributaries and river islands, which is now called in the mouths of splices and Parthe also Leipziger waters nodes.

The Batschke that branched at Zwenkau of the White Elster, had even several tributaries and oxbow lakes. Also, they changed the course of centuries regularly her bed.

Since the regulation of the Weisse Elster River in the 19th and 20th centuries, the deposition of alluvial clay is largely suppressed and the watercourses intersect deeper into the sediments.

Restoration

Batschke and Paußnitz be applied since the early 1990s artificial about the Lauer Grenzgraben with Elster water. Water Legally exact discount amounts are given. So the riverbed of Batschke is operated with an average flow of 160 l / s, while the Paußnitz is irrigated with a quarter of that. The latter is used specifically to early annual floods bring about since 1993, which are intended to rescue the Auwalds.

After the flooding of the opencast mine hole Cospuden the Lower Batschke was with a lock attached to it and sludged. In addition, the crossing under the bridge road with a concrete bridge was made ​​navigable for small boats. This makes it the first completed section of the water network in the Leipzig New Lakeland.

The Zwenkauer part that is dry fallen into a concreted bed by laying the White Elster to the west, should be covered at the earliest from 2013, as the much larger opencast mine Zwenkauer lake is still in flood.

The connection between Cospuden and Zwenkauer lake is then more than thirty years, the connection between the upper and lower reaches restore. This should be a lock, which is intended to overcome the difference in height of three meters, navigable.

Because of the designated water tourist use the Batschke can be developed only limited again to a natural watercourse. The heavy burden with sulfur salts from the surface mines has a negative effect. The best way is a renaturation therefore the Zwenkauer section and in the Paußnitz, as both are fed with relatively good water quality directly from the White Elster and are located in the last two major lowland forest remnants in the course of Batschke.

To the east of the section of the Zwenkauer calibration timber is expected to remain untouched by tourism, because the course of a possible tourist usable connection between the Zwenkauer lake and today the White Elster on the Regulated Weisse Elster is being considered. The restoration efforts for the Southern Leipzig floodplain forest mainly focus on the former Batschke arm Paußnitz as it passes through a nature reserve and because of the many transverse trees by water tourists can not be used.

The authority responsible for mining landscapes LMBV and the city of Leipzig plan to continue working closely with the Wildlife Protection Society Germany to increase the feed via the boundary ditch, whereby not only the flow rate of the Paußnitz increased, but also the water of Batschke can be diluted.

Name

The Slavic name Batschke is still common today in Zwenkau while Floßgraben is needed for an eastern tributary of the Batschke. This was used from 1610 to 1864 for rafts of logs to Leipzig and fell victim to the mine Zwenkau. In the fair city of Leipzig, the Slavic name was unusual since the use for the transport of timber.

Bridges over the Batschke

• White Bridge 51 ° 18 '10 " N, 12 ° 21' 21" O51.3027512.355916666667