Pader (river)

Paderauen at Schloss Neuhaus

The Pader is a left tributary of the lip in North Rhine -Westphalia, Germany.

With a length of only about four miles up the river Pader is considered to be the shortest of this size in Germany. The Pader has an average discharge of more than 4 m / s and is therefore at the mouth into the lip many times greater than this. It flows along its entire length in the urban area of ​​the East Westphalian city of Paderborn, for which it is named-giving: The name of Paderborn is composed of Pader and Born, an earlier name for a source.

• 2.1 colonization and construction of Paderborn
• 2.2 Economic importance
• 2.3 Name

Geography

The Pader springs in the Pader Springs in the city of Paderborn. There gushing from over 200 sources in several small walled spring pool 3000 to 9000 liters of water per second to the surface, making the headwaters of one of the strongest sources in Germany. The Pader source - as well as the nearby sources of lip and Ems - a karst spring: From the time seep surface water on the Paderborn plateau in the dens to the, it takes two to four days, until it reaches the sources in Paderborn (200 to 400 m / h).

Pader sources

From the western Pader sources below the Pader mountain, spring in a city park, the dam Paderborn, in comparison to the other source arms about 6 ° C warmer Warm Paderborn ( no karst spring ) and the Boerne Paderborn. From the eastern sources close to the cathedral spring the hall Pader and the Rothobornpader, which was blessed in 1036. Under the building of the city library, the water source of the eye Wells, the smallest Pader source. Further north, near the historic city walls, lies the source basin of the Maspernpader.

Course

After the confluence of the Pader source arms flows in a northwesterly direction through the Paderborn facilities, a city park, and the ecological habitat of the Heinz- Nixdorf -Auen. After about 2.5 km, the Pader is dammed by a small weir to Padersee. Behind the lake it flows through a Auenpark before it opens in the center of Schloss Neuhaus, near the castle, in the water- poor lip.

A special feature of Paderborn is a man-made drain just below the Pader Lake: Through a closable military blocked the Pader can be passed over the approximately one kilometer Pader - Alme - channel in a westerly direction in the near flowing Alme.

History

Colonization and construction of Paderborn

Above the Pader Springs area, the city of Paderborn, which is first mentioned in 777 as the site of a Reichstag under Charlemagne was born. The settlement of the marshy headwaters did not begin until the late Middle Ages. However, with the reaching to the 20th century redevelopment of the area grew, the hygienic grievances of the local crowded living conditions. After the spring of 1945 the settlements were largely destroyed by Allied air raids, there was a transformation of the source area to an inner-city park without buildings. The parkland and the randliche development, especially on the western warm Pader, are characterized by the style of the 1950s.

At the confluence of Pader and lip the village of Neuhaus, which was first mentioned in 1093 was born. In the 16th century, was built in Neuhaus near the mouth of the Paderborn prince-bishop's residence castle.

Economic Importance

At the upper course of the river in the Paderborn Paderborn drove the city once at five mills, of which only the Stümpelsche mill is still in operation today. By means of the mills energy was produced, forged and milled grain; also there was oil and fulling mills. The Pader water has been used for centuries for bathing, industrial, fighting, drinking and washing water. The Stümpelsche mill is operated as a single Paderborn mill with an undershot water wheel, which is the largest in East Westphalia -Lippe also. There are two other active mills; the Pollmannsche and Becker's mill to grind grain for bread factory still Reineke.

In 1523 was built at the Boerne Pader, the first urban windmill -driven pump set, a so-called water art in order to supply the city of Paderborn with water. 1604 the Jesuits built to supply water to their college another water art at the Boerne Paderborn, 1626 Paderborn followed in the hallway of building another for the Capuchin convent. Until the construction of a hydroelectric plant in Senna in 1929, where water is pumped from deep wells, the city remained dependent on the Pader water.

Name

The meaning and origin of the name Pader, and thus of the town of Paderborn name itself, is not clear. At the first mention to the Carolingian period, he was already well established in customary at this time Altformen, the origin is thus to be found in Old Saxon or Altgermanischen. Etymologically, there are several plausible approaches to interpretation, for example in the direction of old names for path or water.