Laucha (Hörsel)

Village washing area in Tabarz

The Lauchagrund is a 14 km long, orographic left tributary of the Hörsel in the Thuringian district of Gotha.

Course

The Lauchagrund arises on the northwest slope of the Thuringian Forest between the forest types of Small Island Mountain and Tanzbuche, east of the Big Island mountain, from several source streams, the south of the local situation meet Lauchagrund. Between the Zimmerberg and the mountain of data it emerges from the mountains. In the local situation Tabarz / door. Forest will be added from the left of the benefits accruing from the Cabarzer Muhlengrund Mühlbach. From the local situation Tabarz the Lauchagrund flows in a meadow land resistant to the north. For reasons of flood, the river was canalised in the 19th century in the local layers of Tabarz, Long Grove and Lauchagrund.

The mouth of the Lauchagrund in the Hörsel is located about a kilometer north of town location Lauchagrund, near the Rieth mill. The Mündungsort used since ancient times as a marker and limit point of the districts Mechterstädt, Lauchagrund and Teutleben.

Name

The original name Lauchaha waters should be derived from the leek plant. The community Lauchagrund is named after the river. In a paper of August Beck the creek is called Louffa 1868.

History

The Valley of Lauchagrund is proven to have been inhabited for thousands of years, documented by archaeological finds in the district of Long Grove and Mechterstädt from the Neolithic period.

In the places Tabarz, Cabarz, Long Grove and Lauchagrund the water power of the Lauchagrund and its tributaries for the purpose of metal processing have been used in the late Middle Ages. Several flour mills, also a Lohmühle and saw mills are yet known.

In the Middle Ages the local situation of Lauchagrund was created a pond on the western edge, in the middle of the residents in the village of noble family built a moated castle. This imposing, designated as Weiherschloss system existed until the 1950s and then was politically motivated, eliminated as a testimony of the feudal period.

Impressions

The Lauchagrund in the local situation Long Grove

The Rieth mill below Lauchagrund