Muhre (Havel)

The Muhre, also called Muhrgraben, (from " Modra " = elbslawisch for " Blue ") is a river in the northeastern Havel country.

Before the beginning of the great Luchmelioration 1718-1724 under King Friedrich Wilhelm I Muhre had a coherent and largely natural course with a variety of meanders in the upper and middle reaches. Headwaters and mouth of the original watercourse can no longer be reconstructed unambiguously. Understandable is its north - south course parallel to the Havel from the Hohenbruch or from The Forest Sarnow northwest Oranienburg, by the Leege break through to the forest area Staritz northwest Spandau. In the area of ​​today's Berlin city and state border ( icehouse ) was a 90 ° inversion in western direction. After the passage of Old Brieselang the footsteps of the great- Muhre lose north of Nauen in the vastness of Havelländisches lynx. As a result of extensive melioration and canal construction work Muhre is now channeled complete and consists of an upper and a lower course, which are more not directly related.

The upper reaches (usually referred to as Muhre ), starts in the area Oranienburg -Tiergarten settlement below the Ruppin channel. It flows between Leegebruch and Pinnow by extending to reach the grave Havel system, which among other things the so-called Dossgraben heard. Ultimately, it opens on Veltener port in the Veltener branch canal, an artificial tributary of the Havel.

The underflow (usually referred to as Muhrgraben ), takes its output in the range Velten - Hohenschöpping, below the Veltener branch canal. From the ganglia ago he is fed by the Siebgraben and from the middle fraction from the Ries Lake ditch. In a culvert he crosses the Havel Canal before settling northeast Schonwalde settlement with the Niederneuendorfer channel pooled, it drains over the Havel in the channel.

Name

For the entire run of the Muhre the name of modernization or Muder is occupied in the 18th century. The phonetic transformation in Muhr or Muhre explained by the loss of intervocalic d in the Brandenburg dialect.

A side which flowed at Pinnow south Oranienburg in the Havel, was named Dosse ( Lehnitz Dosse), which was partially transferred to the entire upper reaches. Other established or reconstructed forms of the name of this section be Dossow, Massow (s) and Malsow. The Lehnitz Dosse should not be confused with the river Dosse in Prignitz and Ruppin.

Johann Christoph Bekmann called Muhre and Dosse in 1751 published the first volume of his work Historical Description of Churchill and Mark Brandenburg, in connection with the description of the course of the Havel: This flowed " ... at Oranienburg, allwo them with a brükke the away by Pinnow is back beleget, a herkommenden from the Swiss ditch digging the Dosse or Muhre called to take, and so on Spandow which fortress they by means of the votes poorer umfleußt, and makes uneroberlich, by means of the Spree, which it assumes at the Stresoischen Thore but maketh soon an arm of Kreuel called, ... ".

For the presumed historical underflow of Muhre lose its traces northwest Nauen in Havelländisches Luch (in some historical documents "Long Peen moor " or "Long Peen Moer "), and is discussed by some historians and linguists as the name Peene. Due to the lack of reliable sources of older but this discussion must be considered speculative for the time being. The thus reconstructed Havelland Peene would in turn be distinguished from the Pomeranian Peene.

History

The region on the Muhre was already settled to the Slavic period. On islands in the Muhre a smaller frühslawischer hillfort southeast of Leegebruch and a larger, known as the buses Wall, northeast of Nauen were, west of Old Brieselang.

In the second half of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century, the upper reaches of the Muhre of today Oranienburg formed west of the border between the bear already reached under Albrecht under Ascanian territories of the Havel country and at that time still under Pomeranian areas of influence of the Barnim. Evidence of the naming of the " Massow " Merseburger in comparison of 1238, in which the boundary between the old and the new lands of the diocese of Brandenburg is described.

Later the same portion of the Muhre formed the boundary between the Havelländisches and 1660-1816 the ganglia Lions Bergische and the low Barnim district.