Uffe (Wieda)

Running through the middle of the Uffe Bad Sachsa

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The Uffe, sometimes digging Saxony, is a right tributary of the Wieda in the southern Harz in Lower Saxony and Thuringia.

Course

It has its source on the Lower Saxon Great Bockstalskopf, a tributary of the summit of the mountain Ravens, and flows through the city of Bad Sachsa down to the village of Neuhof. From there, ie the Uffe Saxony ditch and reached the village Branderode.

In general, the stream is sinking there in the gypsum karst before it reaches the river Wieda behind the village of Upper Sachs throwing. The Wieda dried up regularly behind the stains Wiedigshof.

By the middle of the last century was divided in place Neuhof Uffe. The main water moved in the direction Klettenberg and Holbach; we took advantage of the water power in many mills. This stream is named Uffe even today. The secondary branch towards Branderode called Saxony trench and passes through the villages Branderode and upper Sachs throwing and opens under shrinkage in the Wieda that can flow under shrinkage in the Zorge. The Zorge leads to helmets, Unstrut Saale into the Elbe.

Nowadays, Uffe has behind Neuhof no direct water supply ( a sewage treatment plant in between ) and her stream starts now before a bridge about 5 feet ( connecting road Branderode - Velcro mountain ) above the trench axes. Because of the lack of connection to the " root" Uffe, it is often initially dry there, is filled by sources and flowing through the villages Velcro mountain and Holbach just off route 243 in the gel density.

Between Bad Sachsa Neuhof and the Uffe a former coral reef of the Zechstein Sea flows directly past the foot of the stone axes. Here you will also find at the incision of the railway line Northeim - Nordhausen the ruins of an old castle, the Saxons castle.