Notter (Unstrut)
The Notter in grains.
The Viper is a 20 km long, left-side tributary of the Unstrut. It rises about 380 m above sea level. NN on the limestone plateau in the heart angle at Pöthen as well as intermittent sources in lowlands in the southeast of Muehlhaeuser Hardt.
Course
It runs initially as digging in herzynischer direction of north-north- west to south-southeast and only ever leads from around Obermehler water. In Schlotheim it changes according south-southwest and flows through the Nottertal covered with loess Keuper rocks on the northwestern edge of the Thuringian Basin. West of Bollstedt It flows at 190 m above sea level. NN as a straightened stream on the left into the Unstrut.
Economic History
Passes between the headwaters and the mouth or touches them following localities: Menteroda - Pöthen, Upper Mehler, Großmehlra, Schlotheim, Austria grains, grains, grave and Bollstedt. Your strength ranged from for the drive the following mills: Notter Mill at Großmehlra, Loch and mountain mill east of grains, oil mill west of grains and the Furthmühle on the western edge of the grave. The mill plants have survived to this day, but are used differently today, in the example of Furthmühle as a hotel - restaurant.
Landscape
The Valley of the viper is one of the long populated fertile agricultural landscapes of innerthüringischen arable hill country. With the exception of small lowland forest galleries along the creek, which are dominated by non-native poplar, there is no forest in Nottertal. Only the surrounding limestone plateau, in the Notter is gently embedded are forested. So there is the vast forest areas Muehlhaeuser forestry, Muehlhaeuser Hardt, people Roderwald as well as small and great special in the catchment area of Notter. The catchment area itself comprises an area of approximately 120 km ². The Nottertal has around 8000 inhabitants.
Gallery
The multi- townspeople water ( coming from the top right ) joins the Notter
Inflows
Between source and mouth of the viper takes on the following streams:
- Narrow creek between settlement Pöthen and upper Mehler ( right side )
- Summer ditch north of Upper Mehler (left side)
- Schmirl between Großmehlra and Schlotheim ( right side )
- Mehrstedter water in Schlotheim (left side), with storage facility as a storage Schlotheim
- Quarry ditch on the eastern edge of grains (left side)
- Holzgraben in grains ( right side )
- Bachgraben between grains and the grave (left side)
Also from the Schaftal, an elongated Trockentalzug on the southern edge of the Volkenrodaer forest, Notter is fed on some days the water. It opens at the western edge of Schlotheim by a ditch on the right side in the Notter.