Bickgraben

History Map of the Bickgrabens

Course of Bickgrabens on the eastern edge of Great Schwuelper

The Bickgraben is a creek at the Pape Teicher plateau with a 10 km ² large catchment area north of the city of Braunschweig. The creek flows into the United Schwuelper from the right in the Oker river system and belongs to the Weser.

Course

The stream is created on the western outskirts of Vordorf and flows mainly in western southwestern direction. He happened Eickhorst north, is crossed in front of the location constable running east -west county road 58 and divides a little further into two rectilinear arms. These come together in the local situation of constable position where the county road 56 crosses the creek. On the eastern outskirts of major Schwuelper the shore is of trees involved in a playground and a park- like complex. In addition to a pond on the south side of the creek there is a nature-like retention basins for settlement Dösskamp on the north side, which is connected to the stream course. The Bickgraben continues to flow through the town center, south along the church and reached near the state road 321, the Oker.

Flora and Fauna

The Bickgraben is a highly -developed and begradigtes waters, which was also artificially deepened. It runs mostly through strong agricultural use of farmland and serves as a drainage ditch. The arable land is often enough right up to the escarpment edge. In some areas has begun to plant trees on the banks. These may affect the stream but so far neither sufficient nor shade the roots reach the water's edge. Thus, the Bach verkrautet regularly in the summer and fall often dry for some time.

The seabed consists mainly of gravel and mud. The water quality report of Lower Saxony classifies the stream as a moderately polluted ( Class II ). By temporarily drying out of the creek and the Faune is affected. Only 15 % of the species found could be unambiguously classified as floating aquatic organisms. Overall, still find four animal species that are performed on the Red List of Lower Saxony:

• A subspecies of caddis flies
• Two subspecies narrow water beetles
• As a subset of bladder snails