Zahme Gera
The Tame Gera in Gera Berg ( mountain headwaters in Arles )
The Tame Gera is a 19 km long river in Ilm-Kreis in Thuringia. It is one of two sources of Gera.
Course
Headwaters
The Tame Gera rises in the middle Thuringian Forest between Ilmenau and Suhl close to the decorations on the Rennsteig. The source area is located on the north side of the mountain Sachsensteinblick, on Forstort " notched wood fountain " by the "Old Country Road", also called " Suhler Straße ". The spring water flows through the " Aschbachsgraben " and joins the " Hungertalsteich " with the flowing spring-fed streams of the ' bucket Tales " and " Hungen Tales ". The Tame Gera has this name from the " Hungertalsteich ". The now broken earth dam was once heaped up for the needs of a Pochwerkes or a " water art" in relation to the regional abandoned mines. The Tame Gera then wraps around to the western centers, 772 meter high fork creek head. The impressive scenic valley cut has a depth of over 100 meters. On the west of the valley below the plateau is the village Gehlberg.
Middle reaches
Is the mouth hole of about ten kilometers long tunnel at the Gera Gera Zahmen below Gehlbergs. This building belongs to the project Ohra dam and directs a portion of the river water in the dam from. It follows a six kilometer long, wooded valley portion to the brown stone mill, now a technical monument in the district of Gera Arlesberg mountain. This mill was founded in 1855 and funded crushed manganese ore ( pyrolusite ). It is located directly at the confluence of the five -kilometer Jüchnitz. Arlesberg belongs since 1923 to Gera mountain. Here ends the clammy -like wooded valley and also marks the exit from the Thuringian Forest. The following mountain village of Gera was still wearing until 1922 the name Gera. In Geraberg branching mill races were used for the operation of hammer mills and later mainly for driving some sawmills. Discharges ( called in dialect Kermich ) from the right about three kilometers long Körnbach In Gera Gera a mountain in the Tame.
Tame Viaduct Gera
On the northern outskirts of the imposing mountain Gera Gera Tame Viaduct follows the A 71 it is 520 meters long and 63 meters high. Below the chamber holes for flood protection built reservoirs was at a narrow point between the "Bring Mountain" and the mountain "White Stone " is created, which can hold 351,000 cubic meters of water of Tame Gera in case of need. Next to it is the pond "Front Eich ," his overflow discharges from the right in the tame Gera. After about 900 meters ends below the left about six kilometers long random stream in the Tame Gera.
Underflow
Here it also changes its flow direction from north to northeast. It follows the Angelroda place where the valley built from a 1879, 23 meters high, 100 meters long railway viaduct of the railway line Erfurt- Ilmenau is spanned. Behind Angelroda begins the Plauesche reason, a section of the valley of Gera, which extends up to the gates of Arnstadt. The Tame Gera winds now about four miles through their wide meadow valley, where they are still the right leading- ten kilometer Reichenbach takes before they united in Plaue with the coming of the left savages Gera Gera for.
History
For the Tame Gera there were different names in earlier times. From 1503 to 1642, these were: Windische Gera, Gera, the old, the Wendish Gera, Gera Old. Around 1590 the name Windische Gera went from the tame to the Wilde Gera Gera. The conception of the origin of Zahmen Gera changed in the 17th century. We saw this in henceforth the source notched wood fountain at the Old country road, about 450 meters north from the high point of the Saxon stone. Until the 20th century there were a total of 14 mill sites along the Tame Gera from the headwaters to below Gera mountain. The Tame Gera is also considered an unpredictable mountain river. This is demonstrated by the great flood on 9 and 10 August 1981 in which a woman drowned in Gera mountain. As a flood control measure, a flood retention basin was 2010 above Angelroda completed.
Traffic
The valley of the Tame Gera has only minor significance for the traffic. Between Gehlberg and Arlesberg there is a forest along the river and between Arlesberg and Angelroda a county road. Between Angelroda and Plaue the railway Erfurt- Ilmenau runs along the valley. The Gera bike trail accompanies the Tame Gera from the Jüchnitzmündung.
Others
After Zahmen Gera, the Management Community Geratal founded in 1992, has appointed seat in Gera mountain.
Swell
- Forestry maps of the forest office Black Forest from 1810, 1818 and 1853