Paunell

Mouth of the Paubachs in the Hangeweiher

Artificial waterfall of Paubachs shortly before the Hangeweiher

Coordinates are missing! Help mit.Vorlage: Infobox River / Obsolete

( Called small Pau, also Paunelle, Pounell or Ponnell ) The Paunell is one of the streams that flow through the historic center of Aachen. It belongs to the stream system of the worm, which drains the Aachen basin.

Origin

Most urban historians assume that the water of the Paunell is the part of the water of the mountain Ronheider springing in the Aachen municipal forest Paubachs that was not derived as Pau for water and energy supply of the medieval city in artificial channels. It is therefore assumed that the shape of the Paunell corresponding to the original profile of the Pau prior to channeling. In contrast, individual authors assume that Pau and Paunell originally were already independent streams.

History

In 1242, a " mill on the Ponnell " mentioned in a document which lay outside the city and later grinding mill was called ( at today's Goethe Street ). This is the oldest mention of the name " Ponnell ". Within the city, the name is first mentioned in 1344. But before that, " rivulus " ( small river) was already a current flowing through the city, called the the Paunell is most likely identical, since she was next to Pau and Johannisbach the only stream that flowed through the medieval city.

In contrast to Pau and Johannisbach the Paunell not flowed through the inner city, which was surrounded by the inner ring of walls. For this reason and because of the smaller amount of water and the lower gradient within the outer ring wall its importance for the medieval city was lower than that of the other two streams. But also at her were three mills, the grinding mill at the Goethe street, the powder mill on the road between Mozart Beethoven Street and Boxgraben and the copper mill on the Karmeliterstraße.

At the siege of Aachen in 1248, as the outer city wall was not yet begun, William of Holland Johannisbach, Pau and Paunell let dam and flooded by a large part of the urban area in order to force Aachen to the task.

Historical development

After the diversion of water for Pau Paunell in the Middle Ages continued to flow to Hangeweiher and from there along about Goethe and Mozart Street to the outer city wall. There they came under the Great Pounellenturm through in the medieval city. The course continued along the Karmeliterstraße (formerly called Pounellengasse ) and a part of the Franz Road. Then she turned and ran parallel to the inner ring of walls behind the theater over to Wirichsbongardstraße where it was crossed by the Pau, and on to Adalbertstraße. There she took to the water, which was led by Pau by the moat. At the site of the Willy -Brandt -Platz, where in the Middle Ages was the operated among others from the family amya Pletsch mill and today the ball well, they united with the Johannisbach, a little further to the emperor square, with Pau. North of the square Emperor left the three united streams of the medieval town by the water tower and ended shortly thereafter in the worm.

Today's course

The Paunell runs today from Hangeweiher out together with the Pau channeled underground through the city. The common channel follows it up to the Franzstraße about the historical course of Paunell, then all the way down but the Franzstraße out and runs along Kapuzinergraben and Friedrich -Wilhelm-Platz to Peter Street. Under the Peter Street Pau / Paunell unite with the Johannisbach to open shortly in the worm. The worm enters the Europe Square back to the surface.