Wahlebach

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The Wahle Bach ( popularly known mostly only ( the ) Wahle and called in the upper reaches also driving Bach ) is a 16.6 km long, right or eastern tributary of the Fulda in Kassel district and county- Kassel, North Hesse.

After the Hessian Water Act, as amended December 18, 2002, Wahle Bach is a body of water III. Order.

Course

The stream originates as Fahrenbach in the Kassel district in the Söhre. Its source lies about 4 kilometers (direct distance ) east-northeast of Wellerode (municipality part of Söhrewald ) between the Great Belger head ( 499.9 m above sea level. NHN ) in the northeast and Small Belger head ( about 490 m) in the southeast to about 460 m altitude.

Initially, the driving creek flows west and feeds a little later with a creek without a name to the 600 sqm large fire water pond in Division 63 of the district Wellerode, which was in 1979 the then Hessian forestry office Kaufungen allows water law by the District Administrator of Kassel as lower water authority. The pond holds about 900 cubic meters of water, about 1.80 m deep and is also called " Jeppe Pond " because it was created during the service period of the forester Dieter Jeppe.

Then the driving Bach flows through the first mentioned in 1585 in the days of Landgrave Wilhelm IV as " trout ponds at Wellerodt uffer driving Bach" or as three trout ponds Fahrenbach ponds. The ponds, called upper, middle and lower pond is to drain and fish for every third year and are located about 2.5 km above the shaft Röder church.

The dam at the ... - Upper pool is located at 351 meters above sea level, the normal water level to about 350 m altitude, the pond is drained by a monk ( drain device ), whose wooden access in 2007 was to be found in collapsed condition; an overflow gutter there on the south side of the dam; - Middle pond is located at 348 meters above sea level, the normal water level to about 347 m altitude, the pond has no drainage structure; an overflow gutter there on the south side of the dam; approximately at the level of this dam is a hut, which invites us to rest.

- Lower pond is 344.5 meters above sea level, the normal water level to about 344 m altitude, and this pond is drained by a monk whose wooden access is not trustworthy, which is why warned against entering (April 2007 ); an overflow channel there is on the northwest side of the dam.

After that flows through the driving Bach - the forest area of Söhre gradually leaving - Wellerode, in which he bends to the north. Within the village from the east from the Trieschkopf ( 480.1 m) coming from the south and the Red river from Stellberg (approx. 495 m ) open an upcoming parking Bachgraben. Below Wellerode flows through the driving Bach Lochmaben - Vollmarshausen what he is - henceforth called Wahle Bach - turns to the northwest and Lochmaben - Ochsenhausen flows.

Then the Wahle crosses under the Federal Highway 7, which forms hiesig a part of the eastern outskirts of Lochmaben to Kassel; hereafter, the Bach himself a piece of that limit dar. After opening into the Wahle on the border of the city of Kassel Waldau parts Forstfeld and the light coming from the south and running underground Wälzebach one. In this region the stream runs in Kassel at the common borders of the districts Forstfeld and Waldau, Bettenhausen and Waldau and Bettenhausen and Unterneustadt. It crosses under the other Forstbachweg, Lilienthalstraße and in the area of ​​intersection Sandershäuser street - Söhrestraße - Leipziger Straße (near indoor pool East) Leipziger Strasse ( German Street 7).

Finally, the Wahle in Kassel- Unterneustadt from the south flows coming directly east and below the Harbour Bridge ( federal highways 7 and 83) about the Fulda river kilometer 27.25 to about 137 m altitude in the Fulda. The Wahle estuary just north across the street is the district of Kassel, Wesertor. At this Fulda bank opens directly above the Harbour Bridge, the ancestor in the Fulda.

The height difference between Wahle stream source and estuary is approximately 323 m.

Catchment and rainfall area

The catchment area of ​​37.944 km ² around Wahle includes surface, the precipitation area is 39.83 km ².

Inflows

Among the tributaries of the driving or Wahle Bach downriver viewed with orographic mapping (l = left side, R = right side), river length and Mündungsort with Wahle Bach kilometers:

• Red Bach ( l, 2.3 km), Wellerode ( to Söhrewald; 11.75 km )
• Parking Bachgraben ( l; 2.05 km ) in Wellerode ( to Söhrewald; 11.35 km )
• Wälzebach ( l; 5.8 km ), on the border of the city of Kassel parts Forstfeld and Waldau ( 3.4 km )

History and Hydrology

The driving Bach was used in Wellerode to the construction of water lines in 1900 not only as drinking and industrial water for humans and animals. The water drove the upper and lower mill and was also even for the irrigation of meadows above mentioned mills from the now eliminated or silted mill races as so-called " Sabbath rights ", that is, from Saturday 18 to Sunday 18 clock Operating rest of the mills utilized.

Within Vollmarshausen the Wahle Bach once led in parallel over the road at the Kassel court Linde.

During the Second World War, was approved on September 11, 1943 for purposes of fire-fighting water from the municipal council of the installation of dams in driving Bach.

The waste from the neighboring communities of driving Bach wastewater since 1979 supplied by the Abwasserverband Losse - sneezed - Söhre based in Kaufungen the central wastewater treatment plant in Kassel. The water quality of the then excessively dirty driving Bach recovered then abruptly within 14 days of the grade II

In the early 1970s the Wahle was especially straightened in Kassel, in 2005 ( from 12 September), within the city, between the city limits ( Federal Highway 7) and Nürnberger Straße (main road 83) renatured extensively.

Name interpretation

A reliable explanation of the name Fahrenbach there is not. One interpretation says on the previously growing on its banks Fern, the need to refer to other previously used in the absence of roads and paths appropriate use of riverbed by carts. The stream name changes during the course of what in other waters is not uncommon of driving Bach Bach Wahle.

The name of a body of water is rarely unique. So the names of two streams in the also Fahrenbach Werra- Meißner-Kreis. The one originates in Kaufunger forest on Long Mountain, flows in a southerly direction and flows on the eastern edge of Großalmerode behind the Bunte mill in the Gelster that opens in Witzenhausen in the Werra; the other also has its source in Langenberg, but flows in a northerly direction through the small town of Witzenhausen driving Bach and ends just above Witzenhausen Carmshausen well in the Gelster. In the South Hessian municipality in the district of Fürth mountain road also flows down stream through the village down stream. In addition, the local name of the Baden Drive Bach (Baden- Württemberg) points to a body of water with the same name. Fahrenbach is also used as a surname; over 250 entries are listed in 2007 alone in the German telephone book.

Hiking

The located below the driving creek headwaters Fahrenbach ponds can be reached through the trails 19/20, for example, from hikers parking lot between the tennis courts and sports field Söhrekampfbahn to the thief grave road on the trails 12/17 or from the car park at the end of the driving Bachstraße of Wellerode walk. If you follow these paths to the old highway bridge, resulting from a planned in the German Reich routing of the present Federal Highway 44 through the Söhre, they combine to form an approximately 3-4 km long trail.