Berner Au

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The Bernese Au is a Hamburg Bach. It flows through the outer north-east of the urban area.

Geography

The creek originates today a grassy area south of the Saseler path in Hamburg's folk village. It flows in a south-westerly direction, crosses the city and parts Sasel Farmsen -Berne and ends after 8.3 km at Ostend pond in the Wandse that flows in turn through the Alster to the Elbe. The Bernese Au is thus a 4th-order water. On tributaries of the Klosterwiesgasse trench, Deep Horngraben, Karl higher digging and Wellingsbütteler Grenzgraben are worth mentioning.

Description

The course of the water is mainly influenced by the green belt, allotment gardens, forests and meadows, and accompanied in the lower half of footpaths. The upper reaches of the creek falls in the summer months often dry. Many previous hydraulic engineering procedures were reversed in recent years. Thus one has attempted to restore to nature the lower third of the stream through the system noise and Auenräumen. In contrast, the upper reaches had remained in their natural state. A list issued by the Hamburg District Office Wandsbek leaflet ( see below) describes a brook close migration of the harness racing track subway station to the Folk Village Underground Station.

History

The creek was formerly called Farmsenerbek or Farmsener Bach. The actual origin to have been the "Big Pond " in folk village, where today's meadow pond waters to flow out to Saselbek. It seems possible that the Bernese Au formerly flowed from west to Farmsen Osterbek and today's lower reaches of the creek was enforced because of the conditioning of the mill on Kupferteich by puncture. Such is there already detectable before 1480, the production of copper sheets served by a water-powered hammer and in 1810 converted to a corn mill. In place of the old mill weir there is now a semi-automatic military. In addition, previously existed in the vicinity of a powder, saw and fulling mill.