Goldbach (Bode)

The Eggeröder wells is considered the source of the gold creek.

Course

There are several theories for the origin. The one holding the confluence of the devil creek and Silver creek for the source. The second theory after the creek rises in Silberborn - but topographic maps by flows only the tributary Silver ( born) bach / Monk Bach. The third variant assumes that he is already flowing through the Goldbach Klostergrund. The Goldbach would therefore have multiple source arms above the monastery ground, with the longest Quellarm in the small forest settlement Eggeröder Fountain at Elbingerode (Harz ) arises. Some sources also believed that the origin of the Goldbach here. In the following, it is assumed that an origin at Eggeröder fountain.

Lay at the headwaters earlier by Emperor Otto I. documented as proven Egininkisrod place. This was as Engerode, a major smelter in the Middle Ages. After the expiry of the mining phase of the place was desolate. More recently, the site was revived as a holiday house forest settlement. 1946 the settlement was renamed in honor of Heinrich Jasper in Jasperode. This name is no longer officially used since 1990, but is still the name of one of the streets in this settlement.

The Goldbach just East of the plateau of Elbingerode ( resin). The creek flows through the Kloster, past the monastery and the monks Michael Stone Mill Blankenburg, passes under in the previous Birkentalmühle the Federal Highway 6 and combines it with many other streams. In the spring of Goldbach locally developed in the headwaters of a raging meltwater stream. He continues to flow through a long stone, below the mirror mountains south of Halberstadt passing through Harsleben and ways of life, where it flows into the Bode.

The Goldbach applies in the upper reaches as close to nature. Here are home to many endangered species such as the brown trout and small shellfish. The upper reaches of the creek is lined with Allium ursinum ( wild garlic Weißblühender ). In renatured area have now been, inter alia, Black Stork, White Stork, Banded Demoiselle and various species of amphibians observed.

Renaturation

During the construction of the B 6n were performed on gequerten streams Ecker, Harsleber Bach, Hennenbach and Goldbach extensive restoration measures, which also Rammelsbach with Nonnenbach mouth, Schneibecke, Holtemme and vocal corner were available improved riparian zones or newly created.

In the transition from resin to resin foreland, between Blankenburg ( Harz) and Long Stone, Goldbach since completion of the measures in 2010, again from the source to the mouth of an ecologically integrated river.

In the area of ​​Goldbach 1,461 meters of new river were created. For the running on the dam section was abandoned and partially backfilled.

Inflows

• Monk Bach ( right)
• Teufelsbach (left)
• Whey trench ( right)
• Sauteichsgraben (left)

Outflows

• Neuer Graben (left)
• Busch trench ( left)