Northern Rietzschke

The Northern Rietzschke on Arthur Bretschneider Park

The Northern Rietzschke is a stream that flows through the northern parts of the city of Leipzig. Its name derives from the Sorbian recka = Bach. Water Legally, it is a body of water of the second order.

Course

The Northern Rietzschke has two source streams, coming from Seehausen Seehausener mill race and the Lindenthaler water, on the west by Lindenthal has its origin. Near the road Rietzschkegrund Wiederitzsch unite the two watercourses. The Seehausener page is now mainly fed from rain and ground water from the area of the new Leipzig Trade Fair.

In Wiederitzsch the Northern Rietzschke flows to the southeast until it on the north side of the hospital of St. George receives the Eutritzscher corridor boundary ditch, and turns to the southwest. From the re Ritz shear railway viaduct to the Hospital of St. George the Bach piece was declared in 1991 according to the Federal Nature Conservation Act to "protected habitat ". On the west side of the hospital discharges the Gohliser corridor boundary ditch. From St. George the Rietzschke then runs in a southerly direction to the Eutritzscher Arthur Bretschneider Park, which was created at the beginning of the 20th century in the Rietzschke floodplain. Here opens at the Gottschall Road, the Northern Rietzschke into the sewer system.

Until about 1885 it was from here still an open, opening into the then flowing there Splices watercourse approximately along the canal road and today Prellerstraße. In order to relieve the sewer system during heavy water flow, there is a storm water overflow into the Parthe on Wilhelm bridge, a bike and walkway over the now flowing there Parthe near the southern end of the Prellerstraße ( to 1947 William Street ).

Until the year 1000 the Northern Rietzschke continued to flow up to its confluence with the White Elster in the bed, which uses the Parthe today. At about 1200 (now about Prellerstraße ) created the Gohliser mill race to supply the local mill with sufficient water from the Parthe in the area of ​​today's zoos to Rietzschke in Gohlis. The amount of water the Rietzschke not enough for it. Since that time, the mill race on most maps was referred to as splices because the water came primarily from the Pleißemühlgraben. The Rietzschke led since then until its integration into the drains in the designated as splices Gohliser mill race.

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From the confluence of the headwaters to the influence into drains the Northern Rietzschke has a length of 3.7 kilometers.

The area around the Northern Rietzschke belongs to the Leipzig landscape protection areas. Since 2007, the Rietzschke trail from Arthur Bretschneider Park runs along the Rietzschke or near them until after Wiederitzsch.

To the east of Leipzig there is a similarly large stream called Eastern Rietzschke, who was also a former tributary of the Parthe.