Krummes Wasser

View from the north to Einbeck in the 17th century: the crooked water front, behind the Ilme

The crooked water is a about five kilometers long, left tributary of the Ilme in Einbeck in southern Lower Saxony.

The creek arises in the erosion area of ​​Kuventhaler basin as the confluence of Hillebachstausee and Stroiter Bach. Nearby, he also feeds through the confluence of other smaller streams. In Kuventhal itself it flows under the bridge the highway 3 through first and about a kilometer to the south. To its confluence with the Ilme south of the city of Einbeck it flows then partly piped further to the southeast.

In the Middle Ages disabled the crooked water system and expansion of the city of Einbeck. While the monastery of St. Alexandri the north was located here at about 200 m narrowing Bachaue, was the medieval civil settlement with the market place on the southern shore. At the latest with the construction of the city walls in the 13th century, the crooked water is passed around to the south around the city. Only a channeled Stadtbach still flowed through the area, which was filled to the cultivation with manure, mud and waste layers up to one meter. When Diekturm, in the southwest of the fortification, the mill canal flows in a medieval building at 2 m height above the crooked water to the city.

Conservation organizations plan by land acquisition to renature a part of the flood plain of the Crooked water to allow a dynamic development process. Intensively used areas are to be converted into successional areas and extensive grassland.

The crooked water is used by the local fishing club. In April 2001, alevins have been used in the crooked water for the reintroduction of the Leash salmon.

On Crooked water runs along a hiking and biking trail.