Eastern Rietzschke

The Eastern Rietzschke in Mölkau

The Eastern Rietzschke is a stream that flows through the south-eastern and eastern parts of the city of Leipzig. Its name derives from the Sorbian recka = Bach. Water Legally, it is a body of water of the second order.

Course

The Eastern Rietzschke begins its course from some field streams fed into Zuckelhausen, flows through the districts of Holzhausen, Zweinaundorf ( here ends the coming of Baalsdorf High Graben), Mölkau and Stünz, before ending in Sellerhausen in the sewers of the city of Leipzig. By the end of the 19th century, they continued to flow over Neusellerhausen and Neuschönefeld up to its confluence with the Parthe north of the railway facilities of the Dresden train station. This course is still in some depressions visible so between the Hermann Liebmann Street and Lily Street and in Elsapark in Neuschönefeld. Along this missing section of river was a popular, having passed with poplars walk, poets gear.

The length of the Eastern Rietzschke is 7.57 kilometers today.

More

In the fertile floodplains Rietzschke extensive vegetable cultivation to supply the nearby city of Leipzig was in earlier centuries operated ( carbon villages). Until the 1980s there existed sporadically agriculture. Today can be found on the History of the Eastern Rietzschke many allotment garden plants that can guess a little of the once rural landscape structure.

The area around the Eastern Rietzschke belongs to the Leipzig landscape protection areas.

In the north of Leipzig, there is a similarly large stream called Northern Rietzschke, who was also a former tributary of the Parthe.