Lamme

Spring grotto in the monastery park of Lamspringe

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The Lamb is a 21 km-long, left or southern tributary of the heart in the district of Hildesheim in southern Lower Saxony.

It rises north of the lifter in Lamspringe around 200 m above sea level. NN. Your source is located in the monastery park. Your water entfließt a walled spring grotto that dates according to an inscription of 1727. In 1970, she was replaced. The source is located about 200 meters from the monastery Lamspringe away. She had a great importance for the economy of the monastery operation. The water used for drinking water supply and powered a water mill. The spring water comes out of the lift and looks because of the washed lime slightly milky appearance.

From Lamspringe the lamb turns west past the ridge Harplage to the north, where it meanders near Bad Salzdetfurth between the Hildesheim Forest in the west and in the east through the Saubergen.

It flows through the old town of Bad Salzdetfurth, which has been repeatedly flooded by Lamme flood. A particularly devastating flood occurred on 27 May 1738 and then destroyed in Bad Salzdetfurth 178 building by the floods and 7 bridges or bridges were swept away. At St. George's Church in Bad Salzdetfurth reminds height of 3 m above the pavement a high water mark at the water level of this disaster. Another devastating flood that claimed seven fatalities and 130 residents made ​​homeless by the destruction of 25 houses, the city met on June 29, 1814. Was not until 1951, the flood risk for Bad Salzdetfurth has been banned by the river bed of the Lamb in the north of the city on Orchard Street was widened and straightened.

Then the Lamb flows through the bathroom Salzdetfurther districts Detfurth, Wesseln and small fertilizing. Shortly after the military Heinde opens the Lamb in the core.

The river name is not derived from animal lamb but appears to have an Indo-European origin with the word part Lam. It means swamp, breakage or marshy meadow.