Jungfernbach (Kassel)

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The maiden Bach is a 2.95 km long, western or orographic right tributary of the ancestor in the north of the North Hessian city of Kassel.

Course

The most rinnsalartige Virgin creek rises in the western part of the Kassel district of Virgin head, lying on the or at places like a park wooded Jungfernkopf. Its source is underground about taking the intersection of Kornblumenweg -Am mountain goats at around (220 m above sea level. NN ). A lying parallel to the road on mountain goats running in the street above its origin, since about 2000, if new development area called " For Virgin Bach".

Located above the Virgin Bach origin catchment area extends along the road on mountain goats in the northwest yet ascended to lying in the northeast part of the Habichtswalds hilltop Lambert (about 292 m above sea level. NN ).

Approximately in west-east direction of the places already flowing in its headwaters in the Kassel sewer Virgin stream runs through below or south of the Virgin head located areas of the district of the same name; the former, aboveground stream bed is often dry in some places visible lying between the houses of the district. Here, the stream flows along the stretch of road about goats on mountain Waldecker Straße, where he happened immediately southwest in 1954 inaugurated the church Jungfernkopf ( the Bach kilometers 2.25 ).

After the end of the Waldecker Straße maiden creek crosses under only the running front head street Eisenbahnweg and immediately near the end of 2008 opened RegioTram stop Jungfernkopf (near the creek km 1.7 ) a railway embankment from the northern part of the railway Friedrich- Wilhelms- North Railroad ( Kassel- Warburg ).

Then the maiden Bach of Virgin head runs south-east to the north along the road tavern beer Stanne through the tree- forest, built-up areas and allotments Bachaue the maiden meadows, where a small trickle of north-west flows and the estuary forms a pond. He then crossed - again in the sewers vanishingly - between the river kilometers 1.2 and 1 number of railway bridges, including those of the high-speed line Hannover -Kassel and Würzburg.

Between the standing at the tavern beer Stanne bridges the Virgin Bach the immediate north of the street standing shelter Wau - Mau Island, who collaborated searched closely herrchen with that of 1975 by the hr- television broadcast until 2008 consignment happens underground and about 50 m south.

Immediately after this bridge leaves the maiden creek, the area of the Kassel district Jungfernkopf and continues to flow underground about south along the tavern beer Stanne in the extreme northern part of the district Rothenditmold, where he passed through it under the northern part of the work the middle of the Henschel works; directly south-west that is the Mercedes -Benz plant in Kassel.

Immediately east of the plant midfield or a few meters southeast of the public transport terminus Dutch road crosses the Virgin river at the border of the districts Rothenditmold and North -Holland south of the junction of the stretch of road tavern beer Stanne - Bunsenstraße with the Kassel and Vellmar interconnecting Dutch road one on the last-mentioned road landscaped common portion of the federal highways 7 and 83 (near the creek 0.4 miles ).

Henceforth, the maiden creek in North Holland district runs still underground south along the Bunsenstraße and south past the little Paul - Pfetzing Street. After subsequent crosses Bunsenstrasse, now limit the Kassel Districts of North Holland and Philippinenhof Response mountain, the river flows in the latter district a few meters after the Bunsenstraße or after leaving the urban drainage between Gahrenbergstraße and Philippines Höfer travel to about 155 m above sea. NN in the current flowing from northwest zoom Fulda inflow ancestor.