Geinegge

The Geinegge the monastery Miihlenweg

The Geinegge forms as a stream or small river running a right-side tributary of the lip. It is located on the territory of the municipality Bockum- Hovel of the city of Hamm.

Name

The villages Bockum and Hovel, from which the present-day municipality hammer Bockum- Hovel has emerged, once belonged to the dukedom of Saxony and were inhabited by Saxons. The name " Geinegge " comes from the Saxon. There, the word ending " ... harrow " on marsh, bog or similar way. Earlier spellings are " Gheneighe ", " Gynegge ", " Geneghe ", " Gyneghe ", " Genegge ", " Geneege " or " Geinhegge ". You probably refer to a (s) " water ( running ) between hedges ".

Source

The Geinegge arises as a small hill country river in the border area of the municipality of Ash Mountain and the city of Hamm, more precisely at the foot of rye mountain on the border of belonging to ashes mountain peasantry Nordick and to Hamm or Bockum belonging peasantry Barsen the Court Schulze- Krutmann in the northwest of the city Hamm. Your source which has been established only in 1928 by Sauerland Mountain Club and since then has been a popular destination, is 83.65 meters above sea level. The slope to the Radbodsee, in it opens at 55 meters above sea level, is 28.65 meters.

In addition, there are five other source streams, which form the source system, the Geinegge. Their sources, in turn, are only partly to hammer area, but they are close to the city limits in the district of Warendorf and in Coesfeld.

Geineggequelle.

Sitting on the Geineggequelle.

Hof Schulze- Krutmann.

Roggenberg.

Geinegge behind the Geineggequelle.

Length and catchment area

In the older literature the length of Geinegge is given as 8.5 kilometers. The passage of Geinegge was partially changed artificially; land consolidation in the late 1970s the Geinegge was straightened almost entirely, partially piped and installed, the original course has been filled. Presumably, this results in the different length specification of 9,411 kilometers at TIM -online. The catchment area of ​​Geinegge reached a size of 26.6 km2. Two -thirds are arable land ( 77.4 % ), followed by urban areas ( 6%) and forest ( 5.7%).

Flow and function

The Geinegge crosses a large part of the rural area north of the hamlet Bockum- Hovel, the peasantry Barsen, Hölter and Geinegge. They initially flows several kilometers to the east and then turns south. In this way, it affects the former cloister and the moat, moats and ponds of house Ermelinghof. The fish ponds are indeed fed by Mesenbach, which therefore no longer freely flows into the Geinegge, the overflow is not commenced at kilometer 3.0 and 3.2 in the Geinegge. Until about 1955, located on Ermelinghof 1978 broken castle mill was operated with their help. The lower reaches of the Geinegge flows at about 1.2 kilometers heavily populated area. Finally, the Geinegge crosses under the road just east of the intersection Bockumer Roman road and flows near the Roman road in the Radbodsee.

With 27 km2 of the catchment area of ​​the Geinegge is the largest in the north of Hamm Hauptfluters lip. The Geinegge can thus be regarded already as a small river, even if it deserves as a lowland stream with predominantly straight course as stream quality.

Due to the redevelopment of the Geinegge is almost always provided with a bank reinforcement. It is used for the discharge of drainage water of arable land and to ensure the safe dissipation of the summer and winter floods. This protects them from flooding and is used for cultivation of the floodplain. Also melioration of the adjacent fields and 'easy care ' profiles and embankments have been implemented using the Geinegge through enemy waters water engineering and entertainment activities. Since the Geinegge, located in an urban area with residential buildings, farmyards, yield agriculture, roads, bridges, etc, the default of the city of Hamm flood safety must not be impaired even when re-planning principle.

Obstacles to consistency and flow behavior are the 50 meter long piping parallel to the road " in Barker Field " at kilometer 5.0, the weir south of Castle Ermelinghof at kilometer 3.0, the flow of the Lake Forester at kilometer 2.2, the flow of Radbodsees at kilometer 0.5 and the pumping station in the lip at kilometer 0.0.

Despite many anthropogenic influences that jeopardize the objective of good status, the Geinegge has to be considered as natural surface waters.

Mouth

The Geinegge culminated first in the lip, in the vicinity of the historic castle Nienbrügge. Later, she then led to the severed Lippearm, the so-called " Old lip ". Finally, it was diverted as part of the embankment of the lip in the Radbodsee, which was used until the closure of the Radbod as a water reservoir.

Due to subsidence of Radbodsee today is much deeper than the lip; the underground coal mining by the Radbod has caused a lowering of the old lip and the adjacent Seeareals to several meters. Therefore, and because of the water must Lippeindeichung the opening into the Radbodsee streams, including the inflow from the Geinegge, 121.773 km are passed on and pumped up before the lip joins the lip with the help of a pump body.

Planned restoration

The European Water Framework Directive has led to considerations of renaturing the Geinegge. To implement the Water Framework Directive, the state of North Rhine -Westphalia has decided authorities in addition to a binding management plan various programs of measures, taking into account the Geinegge. The measure is in two parts.

Firstly, the Geinegge to be rehabilitated on a 500 meter long section between the forest and the road Wiggert " Geinegge ". For this purpose one wants to remove the massive rock fill and change the course of Geinegge by meander (water loop ) and potholes. In addition, the riverside path is to be installed at this point to allow on the eastern side is a natural development of the water. The required land has already been purchased by the city of Hamm. According to the Hammer City Council the land on the western side of the Geinegge are not affected. The construction costs for this measure are estimated at 80,000 euros. 90% of them will carry the state of North Rhine -Westphalia.

Secondly, the Geinegge to be reconnected directly to the lip. The water framework directive provides for all waters to achieve good ecological and chemical status and to obtain, so that the waters are the lifeblood of nature again. However, the pumping station at the end of Geinegge forms an obstacle to migrant migratory fish, aquatic plants and microbes in the Geinegge. In addition, it causes operating costs. One from an external engineering company developed a feasibility study to look at the lip for ways to free access of Geinegge. Geinegge and Radbodsee should no longer interfere with each other afterwards. The interests of the Radbodsees is recognized. This raises the question about whether the nutrient supply is reduced in the Radbodsee by the decoupling of Geinegge. The study should also provide information about conditions and restrictions and estimate the cost of the construction project. The study itself will cost 35,000 euros, with 90 % of these costs are borne by the State. On the part of the district council Bockum- Hovel expressed the fear that the relocation of the Radbodsees in a natural bed would cause the entire area around the Radbodsee being "flooded ". The Environment Department of the City of Hamm does not look such a risk. The Geinegge should flow on the eastern, not on the western side of the Roman road into the lip. Here there is still the natural gradient, so that the height difference between the lip and the lower-lying Radbodsee irrelevant. Against this background, the district council also approved a feasibility study.

The planned intervention is difficult because it is a nature reserve in Radbodsee.

Riverine landscape

North Rhine- Westphalia is located in the transition from North German lowland to upland threshold. The Geinegge is clearly opening attributable to the lowlands, where the Geinegge all four aquatic landscapes of the Westphalian Lowland affected: source area, and source stream are located in a small sandy area behind it a term coined by loess section follows, it follows weathering area in the central portion and the lip lowlands in the south.

Hydrography

The Geinegge is tributary of the lip itself but also a series of inflows. Among the biggest are:

• Hölter brook, summer dry, problematic water balance, catchment area: 7.66 km2
• Mesenbach, summer dry, problematic water balance, catchment area: 4.81 km2
• Ditch at Kötter Mountain, catchment area: 3.04 km2
• Nameless waters, catchment area: 1.42 km2
• Barsener ditch catchment area: 0.93 km2
• Depe Becke, catchment area: 0.74 km2
• Rehbach, discharges of several small sewage treatment plants, stormwater overflows from the combined sewer system, " dirtiest Hammer receiving water " catchment area: 0.35 km2

Geinegge castle and knight's seat Aquack

After Geinegge named is not preserved castle Geinegge and the resident knight dynasty of Geinegge. At the time of construction of the castle Geinegge Bach must have more water out than in the present, because sources occupy an extraordinary fish stock, as there is no longer him there today.

Also the even older knight's seat Aquack in the independent peasantry Aquack lay on the Geinegge.

All noble houses in Bockum- Hovel were together with monastery courtyard, house and castle Ermelinghof Nienbrügge thus opened up by the Geinegge, except Hövel castle and house Laake.

Others

From the present town of Hamm planned by the previous city Bockum- Hovel Geinegge trail was created.

In the bed of the Geinegge bone remains of a glacial mammoths and a wool rhino have been found.