Bille (Elbe)

The Bille in Saxony Waldau

The Bille ( Slavic biely = " white ", compare the names of rivers Biela ) is a river in southeastern Schleswig -Holstein. It rises east of Hahnheide at Trittau and flows into the Elbe in Hamburg.

The Bille has a length of 65 km, 42 km of which run through Schleswig -Holstein, the rest by Hamburg.

Course

The official source of Bille is Linau, south of Sirksfelde and is fed from the Koberger and the Linauer Moor. In its upper reaches the Bille takes on many streams and ponds. From Grande, Kuddewörde it forms the western boundary of the Saxon Forest. In Witzhave the Bille the Corbek takes on in the Black Aumuehle Au, large parts of the Saxon Forest dehydrated. Then it flows through residential areas in Wohltorf. In Reinbek the Bille is dammed for mill pond, the picturemaker lies on the banks.

The Upper Bille, to mountain village, is in many places the boundary between the Kreise Stormarn and Lauenburg, which in turn the historic boundary between the settlement areas of Saxony and turning corresponds to ( Limes Saxoniae ). This has led in some places to the formation of twin towns, so there is for example a Lauenburg and a stormarn between part of Hamfelde and Köthel, as well as Grande and Kuddewörde are only separated from the Bille and the Grander mill is actually in Kuddewörde.

In the border area between Aumuehle and crab Kamp, the river was laid in 1845 at a length of more than 100 meters in the construction of the railway line Hamburg-Berlin by about 100 meters to the south. The old course of the river is still north in some fish ponds can be seen today next to the track.

In Bergedorf the Bille is dammed since 1208. The dam is located at the height of the Old Holsten Street. Until 1939, the grand grain mill was operated. At the same time, the pent-up water was used for the moat. The water level of the upper Bille here is regulated by a weir and drained by the Serrahn named Bergedorf harbor.

Next, the water flows of the Bille since 1443 by the channeled Schleusengraben in Krapphofschleuse in the Dove Elbe. The original course of the river was built over the Bergedorf or Lohbruegger downtown. In the Schleusengraben flows from the east the Brookwetterung, which drains the northern part of the four- country.

Parts of the water of the sluice trench are passed over the brook -like, partially cased Kamp Bille for Middle Bille from Heckkaten the original course of the river by the Bill Werder march to Tiefstack follows and doing some of the waters of the area such as the Ladenbek and Glinder Au receives. From the influx of Ladenbek to pass under the Federal Highway 1, the Bille forms the southeastern, southern and southwestern edge of the nature reserve Boberger lowlands.

The from the A1 motorway, known as Lower Bille river branches in the districts of Hamburg Tiefstack and Bill Brook, which are highly characterized by trade and industry, in different channels and ultimately leads to the Brandhofer lock into the Elbe.

Structures

• Grander mill
• Castle Reinbek
• Bergedorf Palace
• The Serrahn in Bergedorf
• Brandhofer lock

In the Bille Bill Brook is crossed by several bridges, the railing color was allegedly chosen to facilitate the partially illiterate or foreign workers in this industry environment, the orientation. These are ( downstream ) the - Red Bridge - Yellow Bridge - Blue Bridge - Brown Bridge - Green Bridge - Black Bridge. Old maps show that the bridge names are much older and go back to the 18th century.

Nature Reserves

Billetal

The Grander Billetal between mill and mill pond inlet to the Reinbeker is since 1987 a nature reserve. There, now endangered fish species such as grayling, brook lamprey, minnow and stone loach have been reintroduced. Brown trout and rainbow trout are relatively common. In the Waterside area nesting rare birds such as the kingfisher. For conservation area includes the estuary of Corbek.

Boberger lowland

The nature reserve Boberger valley lies north of the Bille in Hamburg between Bergedorf and Kirchsteinbek. It was awarded in 1991 with a total area of ​​350 hectares its protection status.

Geologically it is in the area around a glacial meltwater channel system that has emerged on the southern edge of the ice limit of the last ice age.

In the literature

" Anne Alster, Elbe anne, anne Bill ' Doa can each eenen moken, wat he wants. "

Is the known beginning of a long-established Hamburg song on Missingsch.