Ehlbeck (Lopau)

Headwaters of the Ehlbeck on the TrpÜbPl Munster Nord

The Ehlbeck is a river or Heidebach in the Lüneburg Heath in north-eastern Lower Saxony. It is a left tributary of the Lopau.

Course

The Ehlbeck rises on the northern edge of the training area Munster -Nord, in the forest area Uhlenbusch west of Rehrhofs. The headwaters are in the Middle Ages derived, now largely silted up fish ponds, from where it flows through the village Ehlbeck, which they gave the name. Rehrhof and Ehlbeck are districts of Rehlinger ( Lüneburg district ). The Ehlbeck opens in Bockum (municipality Rehlinger ) on the left side in the Lopau, which opens into the Luhe after a further course of about seven kilometers. With a total length of 8.9 kilometers, the Ehlbeck is the most important tributary of the Lopau whose water supply it doubles at the mouth. Your above-ground catchment area of nearly 35 square kilometers exceeds the Lopau at the mouth of the point slightly.

Geology and water quality

The headwaters of the still largely untouched Ehlbeck lies in a system of dry valleys with mucky soles, which is a sandy- gravelly Endmoränenrücken the Hohenheide, Haupthöhenzugs of the Lüneburg Heath, sunk. The water of the upper basin is colored brownish by humic acids from the peaty soil and has a pH of only 4.7 to. The water quality is qualified in this area as moderately polluted. Below Ehlbeck increase water quality and biodiversity to its confluence with the Lopau significantly.

Prehistoric times

The catchment area of ​​Ehlbeck has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age, as evidenced by excavations of burial mounds with finds of flint daggers. Among the finds from the Bronze Age (1800-800 BC) include bronze fibulae, neck, arm and leg rings and gold spirals.

Swell

  • River system Ilmenau
  • River in Europe
  • River in Lower Saxony
  • Lüneburg Heath
  • Rehlinger
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