Nuthe

River course of the Nuthe

The Nuthe is a left tributary of the Havel. She is in the final meters a Brandenburg state waterway.

Description

Your source is located in the Flaming in Brandenburg in the community Niedergörsdorf - west of the hamlet Dennewitzplatz. Tributaries are the Nieplitz near Gröben and the hammer flow near Wolter village. To the north, the Nuthe flows through the larger towns Jiiterbog, Luckenwalde, Trebbin and the community Nuthetal. After about 65 km flow path and after the Nuthe has overcome some 51 m height difference, it opens to 29.4 m above sea level. NN in Potsdam in the Havel. It flows through the Glogau - Baruth glacial valley and further north smaller Urstromtalungen. At its headwaters in the Flaming she has the character of a so-called salmonid waters. In the lower reaches, it is channel-like expanded and dikes. Its catchment area covers 1935 km ².

A large part of their course leads the Nuthe by the Nuthe Nieplitz. The wet green meadows, former floodplains and smaller Elsbrüche of nature parks offer the white stork and the heron ideal conditions; especially the heron inventory is continuously increasing since the 1990s.

Theodor Fontane scoffed at the Nuthe and the even smaller sister Nieplitz compared with those currents WOULD Havel, than delay the Volga pass you by. Nevertheless, the "old Nuthe " as opposed to Nieplitz (presumably from the Slavic: Unschiffbare ) in the region of the confluence of Nuthe and Nieplitz at Gröben still around 1880 up to 40 m wide and from their various regulations ( 1776-1786, 1883) navigable in parts. Prior to the regulations of the river was known by the " Nuthe crabs " that came as a delicacy to Leipzig and Paris. In a story from the 1820s, it is said in the introduction in the reproduction of Fontane:

It was the time where again, as every year, the zusammengebolzte to three, four strains wood raft in a long long line the Nuthe came down to go only at Potsdam in the Havel and then at Havel mountain in the Elbe. And as usual, we had all sorts of teams once again commanded on board, with oars and poles in hand, through constant pushing off the shore, had to stop up and down the hard wood raft. There were eleven, all young lad of Trebbin and Thyrow ago ....

The mysterious already Fontane Nuthe castles might according to his information already in 1150, at the time of Albrecht the Bear have passed. A little more detail to see Saar mouth. The remains of these castles can still be found near the town of Trebbin. It is a mound, - surrounded by the obligatory moat stood there a Slavic castle, in drawings and excavations well documented by former history teacher Goethe-High School Trebbin, Mr. Zumke. Owned by the school are or were also finds from this period, such as the remains of ancient knives, swords and axes.

The name " Nuthe " could be of Germanic origin gms and mean as much as " ditch, gutter " or "valley". In Middle High German Nuot " Fugue" or " groove " means. Other interpretations derive the name from from the Old German Nuth = Noth, as the many mighty, now hardly comprehensible floods brought large "Not " with it. An old name for the upper reaches at Jiiterbog and Luckenwalde is Aa or Aarbach.

Until the 18th and 19th century, there have been floods: 1755th This year has them here, and because of the rampant taken great water, no hay to be mowed, and from this very Ursach failed both harvests at all bad. (From the Gröbener church book, reproduced from Fontane. )

The former Drewitz west of Berlin was renamed in Nuthetal junction (A 10 and A 115).

Images of Nuthe

Between Jütchendorf and Gröben

In Saar mouth, looking north to the junction of the mill-race

The Nuthe at Potsdam

Flows into the Havel, Potsdam, opposite amity island