Gessenbach (Gera)

The wooden bridge over the dragon's tail Gessental in the New Landscape Ronneburg

The Gessenbach is an eastern and orographic right-hand tributary of the White Elster district Greiz in Thuringia. Named after him is the Gessental.

Course

The Gessenbach originates northeast of Raitzhain, eastern district of Ronneburg. Its source lies in the triangle between the Federal Highway 4 (with junction Ronneburg ) in the north, the Federal Highway 7 in the south-east and the railway line Meuselwitz - Ronneburg in the West - in a grove 295 meters above sea level. NN.

Initially the Gessenbach flows through Raitzhain and shortly thereafter formed by the core city of Ronneburg, where he at the Gessental ( see below). In it he crosses the 79 m long bridge Gessental the railway line Goessnitz -Gera and 225 m long pedestrian bridge dragon tail and thereafter passes the north of the valley located Ronneburger district Grobsdorf.

Then reached the Gessenbach - when a new crossing under the railway line - at about 230 m above sea level. NN the city of Gera to run thence along the train route through the Gera districts Collis and gates.

Then the Gessenbach achieved in the area of the former goods station Gera Süd the Gera mill race, an inner-city side channel of the White Elster, which he crossed on a trough bridge ( ⊙ 50.86227777777812.082611111111 ); two local overflows feed the ditch. Finally, it flows - the connection of the Elster dam (B 2 ) to the ring road south-east ( B 92 ) untertunnelnd - continue to the White Elster. His mouth is just 100 meters north of the leading on the White Elster bridge the southeast, on the ring road south-east Vogtland road.

Gessental

General

By 1968 the railway line Goessnitz -Gera led by the Gessental. After the route was moved to the north and partially obscured by overburden from the mining of Wismut.

The eastern end of the heavily battered from uranium mining Gessental is today in the New Landscape Ronneburg, the part of the Federal Garden Show 2007 was included. About the Badergraben reaching the Gessental from the Ronneburger city center and just west of New Landscape Ronneburg empties into the Gessenbach, leads the wooden bridge dragon's tail. During the refurbishment of the uranium mining area to the bismuth times mostly cased Bach was again exposed and renatured.

In the lower part of the Gessentals Gessenbach a new stream bed was built. This was done in connection with the construction of the rail line 1 of Gera - Zwötzen to Gera - Untermhaus and the Buga 2007.

Gessentalradweg

Between Gera and Ronneburg was created as part of the long-distance cycle path Towns of Thuringia of about 8 km long Gessentalradweg as part of the Federal Horticultural Show 2007.

Pollution

Scientists at the University Jena have detected that are near the stream bank Ronneburger in up to a meter deep in places, elevated concentrations of heavy metals such as uranium in the soil.