Wabe (Schunter)

At the " Wabetal settlement " in Braunschweig

Honeycomb in Erkerode

The honeycomb is a brook in Lower Saxony from about 26.5 kilometers in length. It rises in the Elm and joins Brunswick from the left in the Schunter.

Name

The name has been handed down from the 13th century as Wevene or Wavena. The name meaning is " to and fro Moving " given as " Billowing ".

Geography

Source

The honeycomb drains the northern part of Elm to the west. Your source area is located in this mountain range above the Reitlingstals. The creek forms in the field of a source swamp, which is referred to for centuries popularly known as " Hell". It flows through the valley about three kilometers long, and has already traveled 100 meters in Lucklum. In the basin of the river was dammed several times to fish ponds, the largest is called " Big Pond ". There now is a Weidehof with horse stables, where in the Middle Ages was a moated castle.

Course

In Erkerode leaves the honeycomb Elm flows at road level through the village and drives a mill museum. Later they reached Lucklum, Neuerkerode and Sickte. In the former sugar factory Salzdahlum it changes its flow direction to the north and takes several trenches. Between Mascherode and Hötzum the inflowing Salzdahlumer digging through a small ford is traversable. At the level of federal highway 1 north of Schöppenstedter tower branches of the comb the waters means Riede and leads through an extensive wetland area that has been created since 2009, the book Horst west as part of a restoration measure. Both streams run in the city of Braunschweig on a distance of about six kilometers to the north and parallel to flow through while the districts Riddagshausen, Gliesmarode and Querum in the district Honeycomb Schunter. To protect against flooding in the comb, there are several discharge weirs, the knock off the water in the middle Riede. The storage level of these weirs also prevents drying up of the honeycomb in the low-water period. In Querum both open waters at a distance of about 400 meters in the Schunter.

Inflows

  • Mark morning trench ( left)
  • Gallows Bach ( right)
  • Ohe, ( TVC 482 882, right)
  • Hötzumerbach (right)
  • Salzdahlumer trench width also Beeke ( TVC 482 884, left)
  • Fire trench ( right)
  • Riding Ling trench ( right)
  • Small Schöppenstedterbach (right)
  • Mönchsteich trench ( right)
  • Weddeler ditch ( TVC 48288, right)

Settlement names

Near the comb was in Brunswick- Gliesmarode 1922 " Wabetal settlement ". By 1937 was in Brunswick- Querum near the confluence with the Schunter the " honeycomb Kamp settlement " built.

Water quality

The honeycomb is classified as loess - lehmgeprägter lowland stream. The quality is also monitored sections of the Lower Nature Protection Authorities competent Lower Saxony State Office NLWKN and. As part of the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive, the NLWKN has created a body of water data sheet, captures the honeycomb and means Riede. There the ecological status and ecological potential are evaluated as " unsatisfactory". This is due to the structural deficits that result from channel-like straightening the middle reaches, and in many sections by a lack of bank vegetation. At mid Riede, however, some measures have been implemented to improve the structure, are planned or are in principle possible. In addition to the transformations made ​​in the vineyard also means the elimination of Sohlabstürzen in Erkerode and Rautheim is favorable for the stream structure.

The overall chemical condition is "good", and the fish life is classified as good, although the biological state is only "moderate". The water quality is affected by pollutants from agriculture and sewage works Sickte.

Economic use

Along the honeycomb numerous historical sites are listed for water mills, of which the mill in Erkerode is still used as a museum and partly open to the public. More mill locations were the Voigtsmühle at Veltheim, the mills in Niedersickte, Apelnstedt, Rautheim and Gliesmarode (Karl Hintze - way ). At the site Niedersickte was until 2005 still operated a flour mill in 2011 and demolished.

From the 19th century the sugar factories emerged with the growing of sugar beet in Salzdahlum and on Schöppenstedter tower, which led to an enormous waste water biological load. Both factories have long been no longer in operation.

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