Eitra

The Eitra in pus field Buchenau

The Eitra is a small river of the waters of Procedure III in the districts Fulda and Hersfeld -Rotenburg, in Hesse.

The Eitra rises on the western slope of the mountain of light in the Hessian skittles, in the district of Fulda. It flows about 500 east on pus fields Leimbach district in a northerly direction over. After little more than a kilometer reached the creek pus field where he first pivots in the west directions. It flows south here, close to the center of pus box over and continues through Arzell. From here the flow direction is a north-western and the Eitratal is close from here. The river finds its way between the Hisselsberg ( 399 m above sea level. NN ) left of the stream and Schoder ( 363 m above sea level. NN ) on the right side of the stream through. Then it passes through the village Buchenau then Dicker between the mountains mountain ( 454.2 m above sea level. NN ) and the Hauberg ( 412.8 m above sea level. NN ) to flow through it. At about this point the stream flows into the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district, passing through the district Haunecker Bodes and southwest of the village Eitra until further few hundred meters west of Eitra opens at river kilometer 7.9 in the Haune.

History

In the early Middle Ages the Bach Eitraha is called. The syllable " Eitr " goes back to a Germanic or Celtic term for bog or Moder, " aha " is the syllable for water or river. The place name pus field ( the field in the Moor ) and the village Eitra are derived from Bach 's name.

The river fed some water mills along its run. In the 19th century a part of the stream to power the former textile industry in Eitra was diverted by a weir in Bode.