Wipper (Saale)
| Wipper | |
|---|---|
 The Wipper at Hettstedt | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Saxony-Anhalt |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Harz |
| Mouth | |
• location | Saale |
• coordinates | 51°47′14″N 11°43′6″E / 51.78722°N 11.71833°E |
| Length | 85 km (53 mi) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Saale→ Elbe→ North Sea |
The Wipper is a river in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. A left tributary of the Saale, the Wipper is 85 kilometres (53 mi) long. Its name comes from the old German word Uipparaha, which means "singing, bouncing river".
Course
[edit]The Wipper originates in the southeastern Harz, near Harzgerode at the bottom of Auerberg mountain. The Wipper joins the Saale in Bernburg.
Tributaries
[edit]The following rivers are tributaries of the Wipper:[1][2]
- Schmale Else (L)
- Wolfsberger Wipper (R) near Dankerode
- Wippra Dam near Wippra
- Horla (R) near Wippra
- Schmale Wipper (L) near Wippra
- Hasselbach (R) near Wippra
- Brumbach (R) near Friesdorf
- Sengelbach (R) in Biesenrode
- Dorfbach (L) in Biesenrode
- Vatteröder Teich near Vatterode
- Ochsenpfuhlbach (R) near Vatterode
- Hagenbach (R) near Mansfeld
- Talbach (R) near Leimbach
- Fuchsbach (R) near Großörner
- Stockbach (L) near Großörner
- Alte Wipper, also known as Regenbeck (R) near Burgörner
- Hadeborn (L) in Hettstedt
- Walbke, also known as Ölgrundbach (L) near Wiederstedt
- Rote Welle (L) near Salzkoth/ Aschersleben
- Eine (L) near Aschersleben
- Mühlgraben (L) near Groß Schierstedt
Towns
[edit]The following towns and cities lie along the Wipper:
- Wippra, pop. 1552
- Friesdorf
- Rammelburg
- Biesenrode
- Vatterode
- Leimbach
- Großörner
- Hettstedt, pop. 15,629
- Wiederstedt, pop. 1074
- Sandersleben, pop. 1988
- Freckleben, part of the municipality of Aschersleben
- Drohndorf, part of the municipality of Aschersleben
- Mehringen
- Aschersleben, pop. 29,357
- Klein Schierstedt
- Groß Schierstedt, pop. 630
- Giersleben, pop. 1064
- Warmsdorf, pop. 812
- Güsten, pop. 4605
- Osmarsleben
- Ilberstedt, pop. 1155
- Bernburg, pop. 35,897
Mills
[edit]- Wippermühle in Wippra (today known as Mühlencafe)[3]
- Kratzmühle between Friesdorf and Rammelburg, called after the first owner Nickel Kratz
- Herrenmühle between Friesdorf and Rammelburg, (currently a garage) it used to be a hostel for ids
- Klippmühle between Biesenrode and Vatterode:[4] In 1848 August Schumann bought a flour and saw mill, which was taken over by Reinhold Schumann in 1893. When the railroad line Wipperliese was built, he opened a pub.
Flooding
[edit]- 1994: Between April 12 and 13, 1994, heavy rain in the lower Harz mountains led to flooding on the Wipper.
See also
[edit]References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wipper (Saale).
- ^ Die Wipper - ein bedeutender Gebirgsfluss im Harz - Wippertal - Wippertalsperre (accessed 21 February 2010)
- ^ Daniel Wurbs: Vergleichende Untersuchungen zu den Folgewirkungen von Klima- und Landnutzungsänderungen auf den Wasserhaushalt in Flusseinzugsgebieten, 2005, p. A37. [1] accessed 16 March 2010
- ^ Mühlencafe Wippra (called 21 February 2010)
- ^ Gerlinde Schlenker: Biesenrode mit Saurasen. In: Mansfelder Land - Portrait einer Kulturlandschaft, 2008, S. 279.
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