Dove Elbe

Horticultural farm at the Dove Elbe

The Dove Elbe (of Low German dov "deaf ") is a 18 km long tributary of the Elbe river in the southeast of Hamburg.

The Dove Elbe was 1437/1438 on Gammer place separated by a connecting dike between the islands Altengamme and Neuengamme from the main stream of the Elbe, in order to improve the waters of the Port of Hamburg. It will start today just behind the dike as a narrow trench and initially runs in a northwesterly direction through the Hamburg Vierlande.

Before the bridge, turn left onto Blue Neuengammer from the Neuengammer branch canal. From 1940 to 1942, had prisoners of the concentration camp Neuengamme dig this canal and the Dove Elbe widen from here. On the so- created waterway, the bricks produced in the brickworks of the camp should be carried with barges to Hamburg.

From Curslack the Dove Elbe is navigable by larger sport boats. Shortly after going from the leading to Bergedorf Schleusengraben, initiates the water out of the northerly trending Bille. The Schleusengraben 1443 contracted to supply over the Dove Elbe, that point just before Hamburg Elbarme again with more water. The Schleusengraben and thus the center of Bergedorf are accessible via the Krapphofschleuse. Canoes can use one of them located east under a road bridge slipway. The Dove Elbe flows in a westerly direction through the Hamburg Marschlande and separates the area from Allermoehe located on the south shore of the island Reitbrook.

Between the north-western tip riding with Brooks Nature Reserve, The Horse and Ochsenwerder flows from the south the Gose Elbe, another oxbow lake of the same, a. The Dove Elbe is widened in front and behind the mouth to form an elongated lake; he is reported as regatta course, take place on the rowing and canoeing regattas. Just north of it lies the Eichbaumsee, a quarry, which was created during construction of the A25 and is popular in summer for bathing.

At the Tatenberg bay the Dove Elbe bends to the north and flows around the former island Tatenberg in a wide arc. Before the reclamation proceeded to the south east between Ochsenwerder and Tatenberg and Spadenland another tributary of the Elbe, got back to the main stream in the south near Moorwerder.

Behind the Tatenberg sluice flowing the same Dove since 1579 with the Norderelbe together, which forms the northern main stream of the river Elbe in Hamburg area today. The estuary and the North Elbe itself caused by transection of the island south of it Spadenland ( Spade Lander punctures) and the Abdeichung the further westward flowing actually Dove Elbe. Also by this hydraulic engineering measure Hamburg attempted to provide its distinguished port at the expense of his time lying on the water-rich Southern Elbe Harburg with water.

Behind the dike, which now limits the island William Castle to the east, the course of the Dove Elbe continues in a westerly direction away as Dove bettors and Wilhelm Burger Dove Elbe; it separates the former islands Georgswerder in the north and down in the south horn. The Wilhelm Burger Dove Elbe flows through the Ernst -August- channel in Reiherstieg from a running in north-south direction waterway in the area of the Hamburg harbor, opposite the Baumwall opens his hand in the Norder Elbe.

The flow of the Dove Elbe is weak, as it has no significant gradient. Your water is of good quality.

Linguistic

The river name is sometimes written with a hyphen ( Dove - Elbe) as it is not immediately apparent in the High German of the adjectival use of " dov ". It is also debatable whether to decline the river name is (compare flow of the Dove Elbe, but the flow of the Black River Elbe ).

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• Elbe river system
• River in Europe
• River in Hamburg
• Bayou in Germany
• Elbe
• Hamburger history
• Four - and Marschlande