Lieser (river)

The official source of Lieser at Boxberg

The Lieser is a 73.6 km long, orographic left-sided or northern tributary of the Moselle River in Rhineland- Palatinate. Its catchment area covers 402.4 km ².

Course

The Lieser rises in the High Eifel, the highest part of the central mountain range Eifel. Your source is Boxberg, a municipality in the district of the volcanic Eifel.

The Lieser flows predominantly in the south and mostly a few miles west parallel to the A 1 passes through Daun, the county town of the district of Eifel, where they the federal highways 257 and 421 crosses. Then it enters the district of Bernkastel -Wittlich. In it she runs through Manderscheid, which opens on the right side of the approaching north-northwest flowing Small Kyll as the longest Lieser inflow. Then the Lieser reached at Wittlich, the county town of the district Bernkastel- Wittlich, Wittlich the valley and breaks through the Mosel mountains.

Finally, the approach from the north flowing about Lieser flows near the town of Lieser in the coming of the Southwest Moselle.

Alluvial sediments

On the floodplain of the Lieser and its tributaries around 35.1 million tonnes store loamy alluvial sediments ( Auelehme ), of which 18% during the High Middle Ages, and 54 % were deposited during the early modern period. Your largest size they reach at the headwaters north of Daun. They are the result of soil erosion processes caused by deforestation and historical agriculture.

Name

The name of the creek is of Celtic origin. The earliest mention of the Lieser as Lesura can be found in the resulting 371 Mosella poem by Ausonius. In verse 365 says: " Praetereo exilem Lesuram " ( the poor Lieser pass over me). In a testament of the December 634 is reported to the wineries of the Lieser, possessed by the owner: " Vineas ad Lesuram ... quas possedi ". Since the late 8th century, converts the e in the river names Lesura to i or y, where the name Lisera occurs. The present name Lieser is first documented in a charter from 1357.

Tourism

Long stretches parallel to the Lieser runs along a former railway line of the Maare -Moselle bicycle route from Bernkastel -Kues on Wittlich to Daun. Who wants to go in one direction only, has (except in winter) every two hours the opportunity to transport with a regular bus ( "Regio - Radler " ) the bikes to the starting point.

In two stages of down to Wittlich and further from Wittlich to Bernkastel- Kues leading the Lieser path, a trail of Eifelverein.

Viniculture

In the lower reaches of the Lieser - Wittlich on plates and Maring -Noviand to Lieser - wine is grown in the wine region Mosel belonging growing area.