Prims

Primsmündung in Dillingen

The prim is a right tributary of the Saar in Rhineland -Palatinate and Saarland.

Name

Philipp Schmitt mentions the 1850 common names Brims, brake, prims. Prince it was called above Hüttersdorf. A Latin document of Charlemagne on 802 mentions the name Premantia. 1484 it is called Brims, 1520 Primpß, 1606 Brembs 1633 Brimbs. Since 1600 it was called in French Brême. In the official description of 1849, the flow is described as flösbar and given its length of 13.5 hours. Bridges, there were at that time in Krettnich, Bettingen and Dillingen.

Course

The prims rises in Malborn in the Hunsrück, a municipality in the Rhineland- Palatinate as small and large prims. Between the mountain ranges of Ruppelstein ( 755 m above sea level. NN ) and " stone head " ( 683 m above sea level. NN ) are the sources at an altitude of 645 m above sea level. NN (small prims ) or 635 m above sea level. NN (large prims ). The community Damflos passing, it enters into the Saarland and is dammed at Nonnweiler Saarland for Primstalsperre.

In its further course the prim meets the places Kastel and Primstal, flows through the city Wadern where the Wadrill - stream flows, or their neighborhoods Krettnich and Lockweiler, then past Dagstuhl, Bardenbach and Büschfeld, melting, Nalbach, Saarwellingen and Dillingen. In Dillingen prims flows 91 kilometers on the grounds of the Dillinger Hütte in the Saar. The ground elevation at the mouth is 177 m above sea level. NN. The highest point in the catchment area is the sand head. It is located 757 m above sea level. NN on the boundary between the towns of Neuhütten Züsch and Börfink.

The total size of the catchment area is 734 km ².

Conservation

Living prims is a project to improve the water quality of the river. The project serves as a model for the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive. The first phase of the project consists in an inventory that is already finished, the second from the definition and implementation of appropriate measures. It is the participation of the public ( interested citizens, representatives of fisheries, agriculture, water supply companies, Abwasserbeseitigern, Nature Conservation and affected communities ) is provided. The pilot project is being developed and implemented by the Ministry of Environment, the Department of Physical Geography at the University of Saarland and the BUND Saar. The experience gained are the basis for the development of guidelines for the nationwide implementation of the Water Framework Directive.

Biosphere

Flora

Be up to 2.5 m high Balsam has spread along its banks, which originated in India.

Fauna

In some places the prims, including Wadern, Nalbach, Diefflen, live in the Primsauen among others beavers, kingfishers and dippers.

Fish species that occur frequently in the prims are: minnow, bullhead ( Bullhead ), brown trout, loach, gudgeon, barbel, dace, chub ( chub )

Inflows

• Small Prims (right)
• Steam Delete ( left)
• Allbach ( Altbach ) (left)
• Forstelbach (right)
• Münzbach (left)
• Bernkasteler Steinbach (left)
• Imsbach (left)
• Wiesbach (left)
• Löster (right)
• Wadrill (right)
• Wahnbach (right)
• Losheim Erbach (right)
• Sollbach (left)
• Linbach (left)
• Michel Mühle Bach ( right)
• Hausbach (right)
• Soldbachstrasse (left)
• Goldbach (left)
• Birrbach (left)
• Blauenbach (left)
• Death Bach ( left)
• Hütter villages Hombach (right)
• Hütter Mühle Bach ( right)
• Theel (left)
• Piesbacher Aschbach (right)
• Lord Bach ( left)
• Piesbach (right)
• Etzelbach (right)
• Rondelbach (right)

Geology

In the northern part of the basin at the headwaters of the Löster, the Wadrill and the prim count the victories upper levels of the Devonian to the pronounced occurring geological formations. Among other things, this also contains Hunsrückschiefer which form wide Ausraumzonen between the quartzite bars. Gedinne and lower Siegen- level form in the northern headwaters of Löster, Wadrill prims and the parent rock and consist mainly of quartzites and shales together. The Rotliegend is in the catchment area proliferation - the Oberrotweil Lying in the northern area and the Unterrotliegend in prim - assemblies hill country, so in the eastern part. Exceptions to this are the catchment areas of the Ill and Wiesbach. They belong to Saarbrücken saddle (carbon ).

The occurrence of volcanic rocks is limited to intermediate volcanics and intrusives. Chance are those in the northeastern part of the catchment area, in the prim -Nahe trough and especially in the middle part of the catchment area in Limbach ago. The acidic rhyolites that occur in the catchment area, are negligible in terms of area. Sandstone and limestone exist only in small portions at the edge of Merziger shell plate. The Keuper has been completely removed.

Land use

With regard to the land use, the catchment area can be divided into two parts. In the northern part outweighs the proportion of forest. In the southern part you will find the typical for the predominantly rural character central Saarland cultural landscape - a mixture of intensive agricultural land, forests, orchards and pasture. The proportion of forest in the catchment area is 47% ( national average 29.7 %). The proportion of coniferous forest is 19 %, that of the deciduous forest, according to 28%. Grassland typically occurs in the floodplain and has 17 %. Around 10 % of the area take time farming ( orchards ) to complete. About 12 % is occupied by arable land. In sum, so about 39 % of the land used for agriculture. In total there are 13% built-up area ( national average: 12.2%).

Larger settlements are Dillingen / Saar, Losheim and Weis churches. The settlement focus is in the southern part of the catchment area.

Hydrology

In the precipitation distribution clearly reflects the relief. While up to 1227 mm of rainfall measured in the higher ranges of Hunsrück, the precipitation in the deeper area with 844 mm on the lowest values ​​. Thus, the precipitation sum from the southwest rises to the northeast. The average rainfall is 1027 mm. At all seasons falls sufficient rainfall.

The seasonal distribution of rainfall shows a maximum in winter ( November, December ) and a minimum in April.

In the catchment area of 16 prims water levels are set up permanently register the water levels of the waters.

Others

After the river is named the football field in Körprich who, directly located at the Primsufer, the football club SV Borussia Körprich serves under the name Primstalstadion as the main venue. The multi-purpose hall in melting is close to the Primsufers and therefore bears the name Primshalle.