Gruna (Wesenitz)

Gruna near the former Grunamühle between Rammenau and Frankenthal

The Gruna is a right tributary of the Wesenitz and the village stream of Rammenau.

It rises in the forest area at the southern foot of the high stone at Rammenau, about 300 meters before entering the pit pond (2.5 ha ), near the A4 highway and near the source of the Great Röder.

Course

The Gruna through the town Rammenau in a southeasterly direction and fed by three additional scale at the beginning of the 17th century ponds, namely forest discs or middle pond (5 ha), upper or board mill pond (10 ha ) and low - or mill pond (15 ha). After leaving the Rams Auer village area swung her run to the southwest, it flows through grassland and forest edges along the reaches of Frankenthaler Beigut, later Frankenthal and finally Großharthau. After about seven miles it opens here in the United Hartenhauer Park in the Wesenitz.

On her way she takes the waters of the streams cross water (from butter mountain) and Ramnitz on (coming from the forest house ) and the Frankenthaler village stream and drained, parts Goldbach's.

The creek is always straightened in smaller portions, yet is only between the Frankenthaler Beigut and Frankenthal, a beautiful natural section. The flood plains outside the city centers are partly used as a natural flood plain flood protection.

History

Previously, the Gruna marked between Frankenthal and today's low pond in Rammenau the coming of the source of the Black Röder border between Upper Lusatia and the Diocese of Meissen.

The creek also drove up to seven grinding and cutting mills, their buildings are only partially available. In Rammenau were below the pond Waldscheibe the court or snake mill on the upper pond, the board mill and the pond on the Lower Lower Mill. Halfway between Rammenau and Frankenthal was located in the area of ​​border to the Goldbach at the beginning of the last century spent Grunamühle. The Frankenthaler mills were built on the Beigut Beigutmühle (temporarily with cutting operation), Hustes in the low- village mill and near the border with Großharthau Hart 's Mill.