Lutter (Schunter)

The Lutter below the Abt- Fabricius - source

Waldgaststätte " Lutter Spring" above the source

Confluence with the wider Schunter

The Lutter is a creek, which rises on the edge of the Elms at King Lutter and left leads into the Schunter after 7.5 km. The hard, strong calcium and bicarbonate -containing spring water comes from a karst spring, which counts with an average bed of 230 liters per second (20,000 cubic meters per day) of the strongest sources in northern Germany. The Lutter was eponymous for the location king Lutter.

Name

The name is Low German and Lutter related to " Loud ", which stands in Middle High German for loud, bright, pure, clean. That should have played here at naming the body of water because of its pure spring water a role. Lutter is a common river or stream name, but is also found in place names, such as Beck Lutter, Lutter am Barenberg. The same significant "louder" there are still express, such as a " fair character." The current King Lutter was first mentioned in 1135 as Lûtere. The designation as Lutter was performed according to the flowing stream. End of the 14th century, it was given the " royal " because the King and later Emperor Lothar von Süpplingenburg buried in the imperial king Lutter.

Geography

Lutter Spring

The Lutter source with a bed of an average of 800 cubic meters per hour, one of the strongest sources in northern Germany. This is due to the fact that there is a karst spring with her.

The source is located south of King Lutter on the road Elm - up. Below the fall the water source wells from 6 other resurgences out in a flat terrain and forms small ponds. The source was named as abbot - Fabricius - source, but is better than Lutter Spring, according to which the Waldgaststätte above the source area was named. Lutter Spring with the Spring House and the above -lying restaurant is a tourist destination since the early 20th century.

Course

The source area with the resurgences is a park-like grounds. From him the Lutter runs in two creek arms in a northeasterly direction to about 1 km from the king Lutter. Parallel runs a hiking trail ( Unter den Eichen ). The stream passes through the place and still runs a few kilometers to the north- east and north and ends around 8 km between Beienrode and Great Steinum in the Schunter.

The hard, mineral-rich waters of Lutter was used in earlier centuries by 73 breweries in Königslutter to brew fermented Duckstein beer. The water power of Lutter took advantage of up to 10 water mills, of which there were only 1403 in King Lutter seven. They served as grain, oil, milling, paper and powder mills.

Water quality

The upper reaches of Lutter above king Lutter has barely loads and is of Class I - II to you, although in all waters of only three species of mayfly larvae ( Baetis rhodani, Baetis vernus and Cloeon dipterum ) and a genus stoneflies ( Nemoura ) are represented. However, 63 % of US-based Lutter types of running waters are typical. In the further course of the water, the load increases, so that the remainder is classified in Class II.