Rögnitz (river)

Course of Rögnitz

The Rögnitz at Leussow

The Rögnitz is a 52 km long left tributary of the brews in the west and in the east of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Lower Saxony.

Course

A Rögnitzquelle is difficult to see today because of drainage and undertaken since 1480 channeling measures. South of the hamlet of New Lüblower Lüblow meets the pelvis on the new channel is piped under this out and flows from there as Rögnitz first in the south and west by Ludwig Lust makes a bend to the southwest. There the Ludwigsluster channel of Rögnitz approaches to about 30 meters. At this point, a distribution weir with a piped connection and, since 2009, there are two bypass channels that will allow the fish ladder. Here the name of the river changes sides.

Next to the southwest, the Griese area is traversed. In Menkendorf right side opens a Ludwigsluster channel before a few kilometers ran parallel to Rögnitz. On the left side exist at this location since the 1970s, an artificial water connection to the Elde, called the Elde Rögnitz over- head.

In the region around Woosmer the waters draws a line to the northwest, forming from there to Gudow the border between Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania and Lower Saxony and runs in seven to ten kilometers distance roughly parallel with the River Elbe through the nature park Mecklenburgisches Elbe Valley and the associated nature reserve Rögnitzwiesen New Luebtheen. In Gudow the border is crossed to Lower Saxony. In the municipality of Amt Neuhaus belonging Sückau the Rögnitz opens into the brews, which in turn dehydrated at Boizenburg into the Elbe.

In their course of Rögnitz flow to a plurality of trenches. About the size of the catchment area, there are several details that range 504-592 km ². The long-term average discharge amount is 3.7 m³ / s

History

The river name is derived from the old Slavic word Rogu or rakyta for Horn and means something like Hornbach.

Originally sprang the Rögnitz in the " New Town citizens wood ohnweit Wöbbelin ". After conditioning of the channel Ludwigsluster Rögnitz was performed at a crossing point among the latter.

By the end of 2011, the upper Rögnitz were renatured at a length of about 20 kilometers and in parts of the Ludwigsluster channel through the replacement of weirs by Sohlgleiten or the establishment of bypass channels. One goal was to enable fish to rise.