Magdel

Course

It rises at 465 meters high mountain station on the Ilm -Saale- plate east of Blank grove. She then runs north through Loßnitz, Söllnitz, Tromlitz and Niedersynderstedt by gods. There it changes its flow direction to north-west and passes through the town of Magdala. Below Magdalene are numerous mills in Magdeltal before it opens from the right in Mellingen in the Ilm.

More

By Magdeltal lead the motorway between junctions 4 and Apolda Magdala and the country road Mellingen - Magdala - Blank grove.

Name

There are no older written references of the stream, all consider the place of Magdala. The original name was probably Madel. It would be conceivable a popular etymological derivation of maid. The original name derives probably from Old High Madal ( meeting place ), the Gothic Mathel ( marketplace ), Anglo-Saxon mädhel ( meeting place ) or the Middle High German Mahel ( People's Court site ) ago. When you place a derivation from the Old High German mad, math ( mat, grass land ) is conceivable. However, as a basic word aha ( a variant of the -au ) is busy for the middle of the 19th century. The name would thus dish water or water meadow. Since an appropriate naming of the place seems unlikely, the creek is likely to be its name to the place.