Lune (river)

Course of the River Lune and its tributaries

The Lune is a right tributary of the Weser, a small meadow river, which in the lower Weser about 43 kilometers long from its source to its mouth. At the Bremervörder / Cuxhaven county boundary comes to the source of the River Lune, add the Volkmar Rochester Lune. Between Kirchwistedt and Stemmer mills also opens the Altwistedter Lune in Lune, which then Beverstedt, Lunestedt, Nesse at Loxstedt and Lanhausen south of the fishing port of Bremerhaven flows to Lunesiel. The river was navigable until the early 17th century, a major traffic artery and to Deelbrügge.

History of the relocation of Lune

In connection with the construction and expansion of the fishing harbor in Bremerhaven ( early 1920s ) the countries Prussia and Oldenburg, the city Geestemünde and existing water authorities determined the mutual rights and obligations. Particularly obstructive From a later perspective were the rights of farmers march in Stotel, Nesse, wave, Lanhausen, Fleeste and Wulsdorf. They had a " Einstaurecht ": In order to provide their livestock with water, was conducted water from the River Weser up to 25 cm high in the Lune. The consequences for landowners in the then 6,000 acre catchment area were devastating. "Before the cattle in the marshland at all zoom submitted to the drinking water, the cows of the low-lying areas between Stotel and stumps were long with four legs in the water. " By 1912, the regulation of the Lune was launched, but did not come until 1935 to complete. 1925 Lunearm was blocked in the fishing port and the Lune led now by a new Lunesiel into the Weser. Farmers along the river were unanimous: The expansion of the Lune must go on. It also played a role in that dammed the river no more water mills and tributaries have been expanded so that the water flowed - in the Lune.

1963 Hollener farmer Hermann Siebert was head of the water board "Lower Lune ". His tireless work, it is thanks to them that was started in October 1984 with the relocation of Lune. On July 3, 1978 in Loxstedt the decision was taken to move the lower reaches of the Lune for büttel Dredge. Difficult it, the states of Bremen and Lower Saxony to induce cooperation was. Thus, the flow within the Lower Saxony region was folded. Finally, the state leaders Hans Koschnick and Ernst Albrecht agreed in the last days of June 1982 but to realize the " Great solution " laying the Lune for about 80 million DM, Bremen has a 10 million DM plays a part in that the Great Luneplate is not shared by the middle of flowing therethrough Lune. To attract industry and a port on the deepwater remain possible in this area. ( Nordsee-Zeitung, July 1, 1982). "Floods of giant proportions yesterday in the Samtgemeinde Beverstedt and parts of the community Loxstedt been prevented ," wrote the Nordsee-Zeitung on 7 August 1987, after the four pumps at the mouth Schöpfwerk the Lune had first pumped in Büttel one million cubic meters Lunewasser in the Weser.

The Lune now flows west and north of Stotel and south of constable to Schöpfwerk Lunesiel, located west of Neuenlande. After that transfer, the mouth of the new Lune after Geestemünde and the old Lune, which opens yet the tube, the second most northern tributary of the Weser.

The waters of the Lune has in its upper reaches mainly a good quality ( grade II: moderately polluted ). After receiving the Dohrener creek, west of Lunestedt, water quality decreases to the mouth of the grade II -III: critically loaded.

Bridge over the Lune at Holte- Loxstedt

Canoeing on the river Lune

On the Lune, there are six entry and exit points between Beverstedt - Deelbrügge ( L134 ) and Loxstedt - Nesse, where you can leave or get off his canoe to water:

• Beverstedt - Deelbrügge
• Lunestedt / Quabenmoor ( service road )
• Loxstedt - Düring / campsite at the lieutenant bridge
• Loxstedt - Nesse / Wirtschaftsweg In Dallfordel
• Loxstedt - Nesse / Wirtschaftsweg Luneparzellen ( near highway)

The entry and exit points have been created with support from the European Union Leader project.

From the water, you can silently through meadows and pastures, past riparian vegetation and swamp forests slide and experience the wildlife. This includes cranes and storks. With luck, the traces of otters can be found who is traveling at night.