Herpf (Werra)

The Herpf is a 22 km long, orographic left tributary of the river Werra in Thuringia in Germany.

Course

The Herpf arises in a meadow land on the southern edge of the community heritage Hausen, district Schafhausen. It flows in ostsüdöstliche direction over Gerthausen happens Wohlmuthausen south and finally Helmershausen and Bettenhausen, until that changes its direction in the afternoon.

Passing Herpf milker and she finally reached Walldorf, where it flows from the left in the Werra.

The Valley of Herpf recognizable forms a partition between the to 751 m high massif of Gebabergs (plus Westgipfel This castle ) in the north and the southern peaks, one of which stands out particularly the 639 m high cone of Hutsbergs.

Inflows

The source of the stream Herpf takes in numerous other springs and streams on the eastern edge of the Thuringian Rhön. It comes from the north Weissbach has the inflow a larger catchment area than the Herpf himself until then (8.3 vs. 6.1 km ²), and is also significantly longer. Drained from the Herpf was originally Seebaer the lake, still clearly the runoff in the terrain can be seen today, this connection is interrupted. The mouth of the Werra done within sight of the castle of Landsberg.

Worthy of note are:

• Weissbach ( "Bach of Aschenhausen " DGKZ 41342 from left, 4,4 km long) - rises in Aschenhausen, northwest of this castle, which is circled in South - west direction until the creek empties into Gerthausen.
• Hörbach ( 41344, left, 3.7 km ) - rises in the saddle between this castle and Gebaberg and empties into Helmershausen
• Stedtlingsbach ( 41346, right, 3.3 km ) - rises east of Neuberg and flows north-east of the double cone of Neuberg and Hutsberg in Bettenhausen
• Bach of Stepfershausen ( 41348, left, 3.5 km ) - rises southwest Stepfershausens runs in the lower reaches to the mouth of Herpf parallel to the main road 1124.

Name

The Meininger Herpf district is named after the flowing there through Herpf.

Etymology

In Lower Saxony, Westphalia, on the Lower Rhine in the Netherlands and in Belgium and Northeast France, there are a whole host of names that have been formed with the aid of Appellativums hair " extensive heathland ". After Wolfgang Haubrichs is afrk. * haru or umlauted * heri " sandy ridge " a typical Northern word. (See " North words" are, according to Pitz / Schorr 2003, pp. 94 to understand such lexemes, " in a word geographical context with the Netherlands, Ripuarian, Lower Franconian and low German are " ) and to bring as such with the Franks in the early middle Ages in the context. From vorahd. * Heri - apa "Bach in sandy area " was a ahd Herifa / Herphe and NHG Herpf; quite literally evolved to the mda. [ha ͬ bf ]. ( By the way, witness the Herpfer field names Gries, Heidig and sand the incidence of sandy soils in the valley of Herpf. ) Also, since the base word of the Bach name Herpf, Germanic * apa " Water, Stream ," is found in many waters behalf of the above mentioned area and Dittmaier was addressed as Franconian, it is quite possible to see in our waters name a creation Frankish settlers in the first half of the 7th century struck roots coming here from the main landing. Significant archaeological findings from the first half of the 7th century. were discovered several decades ago in Kaltensundheim and Kaltenwestheim. The same applies to Ostheim and its surroundings. It may not be uninteresting in this context that there is a second stream, whose name is to be explained in the same way as that of the Herpf, today Herfa (left for Werra at herring ). In space Friedewald in its catchment area was the important east -west connection Short Hesse.

Economic History

With the water of Herpf many mills have been operated in the High Middle Ages, this was a branched network of mill races. Still available are Weyher mill, Red Mill, karst - mill and the Upper Mill.