Schönebecker Aue

Schönebecker Aue
Schönebecker Aue
	The Aue downstream from the weir at Schloss Schönebeck [de]. In the background the old water mill
	Course of the Schönebecker Aue north of Bremen
Location
Country	Germany
States	Lower Saxony and Bremen
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Lange Heide, Osterholz
• elevation	approx 40 m (130 ft) above NAP
Mouth
• location	River Weser in Bremen-Vegesack
• coordinates	53°10′08″N 8°37′37″E / 53.16889°N 8.62694°E
• elevation	0 m (0 ft) NAP
Length	17.7 km (11.0 mi)
Basin features
Progression	Weser→ North Sea

Schönebecker Aue is a geest stream in Bremen and Lower Saxony, Germany.

The Schönebecker Aue's source is on the Lange Heide plateau near Heilshorn [de; nds] (in Osterholz-Scharmbeck, district Osterholz) in Lower Saxony. Its mouth is in Bremen-Vegesack in the river Weser.

Course

The Schönebecker Aue's total length is 17.7 km (11.0 mi), of which the last 3.1 km (1.9 mi) are in the city of

Giehler Bach, Scharmbecker Bach and Wienbeck

).

From a height of approx 40m above

water mill

. At the old mill today, there is only a weir, which regulates the water level in the Schlossteich (castle pond).

Downstream from the weir, the Aue flows through Bremen suburbs Schönebeck (belongs to Bremen-Vegesack) und Bremen-Vegesack, then for a short way through fields, before reaching another residential area. Bundesautobahn 270 and Uhthoffstraße pass over the Aue, and at Vegesack railway station the stream is led underneath the station's square via a series of pipes. Directly from the pipes, the Aue flows into Vegesack harbor.

Redirection

In its upper reaches, the course of the Aue has been "lightly to moderately altered".

better source needed] The weir at Schloss Schönebeck, as well as pipe laying

at Vegesack railway station had previously caused impassable obstacles for migrating fish.

In 2007 a redirection of the Aue around the weir was initiated. This involved a small, naturalistically-formed canal, which leads the stream in a crescent around the weir and was laid out by conservationist volunteers.

The mouth of the Aue was modified several years ago with a stone embankment, through which the migrating fish can still pass. For years before that, the "opening" of the Aue into a harbor basin near to Vegesack railway station was a controversial discussion point in Bremen communal politics.