Lempertsbach

On Lempersbach in Nazza

The Lempersbach Bridge in Nazza

The Lempersbach, also called the lower reaches Grundbach, is a 9 km long, orographic right tributary of the river Werra in Thuringia, Germany, which flows almost continuously in a southerly direction. The original name of the water body to have been Nazzaha, of which the place name Nazza was derived.

Course

The Lempersbach rises in a meadow on the southern outskirts of Heyerode. Only 200 m from the source is a small pond, feed the strong Dividend Payment sources. From this reservoir the Mühlwasser to 300 m creek downstream upper mill was transported to an overshot water wheel over a wooden trough. To Heyerode includes the following after another 200 m sub- mill, which was supplied in the same way with water.

The Lempersbach now has to go through a natural bottleneck between summer stone (left -hand side = east, 462 m) and Aschberg (422 m ) or Ruppersberg force (372 m) and receives, between the latter two mountains, from right its first tributary, the Bear Creek. Until the outskirts of Hallungen the Ritz houses water follow as left tributary and Griebel ditch as a right tributary. Southeast of the 347 m high Rohrbach head of Lempersbach is dammed between the mouths of the latter two tributaries in two fish ponds.

It follows the local situation Hallungen extending over a length of 500 m on the western shore. After another 500 m of Luden Born from the left opens a. West of the 313 m high Knoblochsköpfchens a fish farm was built, it consists of 7 small ponds.

It follows the local situation of Nazza, here the Lempersbach is passed as channeled water running through the local situation. An unnamed right tributary flows in the far north of the village and the springing of Werner Hausen Steinengraben as a left tributary flows in the south Nazzas.

To the mouth of the river Werra below Mihla the Lempersbach flows through a 3 km long, partially wooded and very narrow valley. Here was the former small settlement Almenhausen - now a deserted village which also has a part in 1985 demolished Grundmühle.

Name

The waters Lempersbach name goes on an old attachment - back Landwehr, which intersects the stream head at the church at Nazza. In the lower reaches of the name Grundbach is common here, there was also the basic mill. In the Map Collection of J. G. Schlee stone of this stream is marked with the Natze.

Economic History

With the waters of the Lempersbach several mills have been operated in the High Middle Ages, these include the Upper Mill and the lower mill at Heyerode and basic mill at Mihla. Numerous fish ponds can still be found today at Hallungen. In Nazza was below the local situation also momentarily Flachsröste.