Hammergraben (Cottbus)

The Hammergraben ( Lower Goramśica ) is a moat which was built in the 16th century, when the feeders for the then 5,000 acre Peitzer ponds. Its course begins with a large military Spree in Cottbus, where part of the Spree is derived on the right side. The water was and is, in particular in the area of Peitz, sometimes called Hammerstrom.

Even before the military branches of the Hammergraben and flows a mile to the east. He is crossed by the federal road 169 direction Guben and the railway line Cottbus Guben. After a change of direction of 90 ° to the north, he crosses the hammer grave settlement, a living space of Cottbus and happens after Merzdorf. About 700 m after passing under a road bridge west Merzdorf the Hammergraben shared originally, after he had just received the water from the Tranitzfließ. The old running bog not far from here again in the direction from east to eventually supply the Lakomaer pond landscape with water. After a weir he takes today, through the devastation of the Cottbus Nord, an abrupt end.

The new Hammergraben makes the same place a slight left turn, and finally to flow parallel to the B 169 on the west side of the former village Lakoma over. Here the Hammergraben has more the appearance of a channel and then flows as such by a good four kilometers at Maust in the original hammer grave course again. Flows through the Peitz pond landscape and supplied with water, the trench meets the southern edge of Peitz and there turn off to the west. In this bend there is a umflossene from island waters and it starts a branch canal to the east to the power plant Jaenschwalde. In the further course of the main trench it passes the Laßzinswiesen and location Maiberg, then three miles further west to take on the location on the Malxe. Both waters join there to Great flow.

The Hammergraben is the former village Lakoma to the confluence with the Malxe at Fehrow under monument protection.