Emse (river)

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The Esme is a good 14 km long, orographic left tributary of the Hörsel in Thuringia in Germany.

Course

The Emse arises from several source streams on the Rennsteig in the Thuringian Forest between Gerber stone in the west and the Big Island mountain in the east. The westernmost of these headwaters is called Croats ditch, the central beak water and the easternmost skillet ditch. Historically, the frying pan ditch and its shorter, right tributary ditch countries were accepted as the main source streams. In contrast, the valley portion between the confluence of Croats and beak ditch water is now referred to open out of the frying pan trench with Emsegrund in cards.

The combined stream flows through Winterstein in a northeasterly direction to exit the Thuringian Forest by the grassy areas and the district Schwarzhausen to affect south-east, after which the city Walterhausen as well as the district of Gotha be left.

Furthermore, the Emse flows in Wartburg district, now directed more to the north, about two kilometers through a narrow, wooded valley in a natural bed, reached the town of Sondra and finally the place Sättelstädt where it joins the local situation in the Hörsel.

Name

The community Emsetal is named after the river.

Economic History

In the places Winterstein, Schmerbach and Schwarzhausen the water power of Esme and its tributaries for the purpose of metal smelting and metal processing has already been used in the late Middle Ages. Several mills were operated in Sättelstädt and Schwarzhausen, in Winterstein there was a Lohmühle, also saw mills are likely. By 1920, the city of Eisenach tried to build a water dam in Schwarzhausen. They failed because of the vigorous opposition of the forest owner Wangenheim ( Winterstein ).