Burgauenbach

The Burgau Bach in the Burgaue

The Burgau Bach is one of the many tributaries of the White Elster in their anastomosierendem river ( often referred to as inland delta ). It was created artificially as part of a restoration measure between 1997 and 1999 and only flows on the Leipzig city.

The Burgau Bach 's water law, a body of water of the second order.

Name

Takes its name from Burgau Bach forest Burgaue ( formerly Rough guarantor ) because its main function is its water-logging.

River bed

The bed of the Bach Burgau consists largely of oxbow lakes and flood channels historic waters that were interconnected. Some sections had to be reprofiled or newly created.

The Burgau Bach is characterized on average one to two meters wide and the entire length of numerous meanders, allowing their impact and Gleithängen the typical dynamic interplay of erosion and sedimentation. In some sections that descend the stream bed is expanded and Burgau stream splits into several small streams to shortly thereafter to re-unite.

Course

The Burgau Bach branches in the Leipzig district of Old West in the district Leutzsch above the Nahlewehres of the Nahle from. On the following three kilometers, it happens in three culverts at first the little puddle, then the railway Leipzig -Leutzsch (which shortly afterwards railroad truth -Leutzsch is traversed in the tunnel), and finally the Gustav- Esche -Straße. In this area a turnoff leads about 0.2 cubic meters of water per second from the Bauerngraben. At the nearby border to the district Burgaue in the village of Burgau True Bach has almost half of its path behind them.

After about 3.5 km flow path directs a trough bridge the Burgau Bach through the nearly two feet lower running Bauerngraben. With it, the Burgau Bach united after a total of 5.374 km and ends commonly defined in this long-standing body of water. According to the criterion of the larger water supply, however, opens the farmer digging in the Burgau Bach, shortly before its confluence with the New billet.

Renaturation

Already in the 1980s, volunteer conservationists sat for a rewetting of the Leipzig floodplain forest one. However, this was only possible after the political change in the 1990s through the collaboration of NABU, Office for Environmental Protection of the City of Leipzig and the Saxon Ministry for Environment and Agriculture.

On the evidence of feasibility was followed by the creation of the approval documents by the Beller Consult GmbH, which had been commissioned by the Wildlife Protection Society of Germany, the national association of Saxony eV 1996. After planning permission was started by the operating Employment Promotion from December 1997 with the work of forming the river bed. Then the undercrossings of paths and railway lines, the waters crossing the Bauerngraben and intake structure at the Nahle were completed.

After over two years of construction, the Burgau Bach was inaugurated on 22 March 1999. The project cost of about 1.5 million DM were supported by funding from the Saxony Ministry of Environment and Agriculture, as well as own resources of the NABU and the city of Leipzig.