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Einbollen
The system of village creek
in the middle ages

On the neckline of this municipal map from 1763-67 turns the Glotter - here called 'LosselenBach' - from the Glottervalley (left) coming to the North (on the map: below) down and flows into the Elz.

The artificial 'Dorff Bach' branches off shortly before the bend and flows (in the map drawn very much thinner) to Denzlingen. The village creek flows on a significantly higher terrain level as the Lossele and receives its water only in consequence of the traffic jams at the man-made dam.

If you are standing in front of this sign, you look eastwards into the Glottertal. The water of the Glotter that flows towards you is splited by a man-made dam the largest part of the water flows under the bridge and is called 'Lossele' from here. The Lossele, the natural continuation of the Glotter. Its river bed is significantly lower than that of the village creek, turns soon after the bridge to the North and flows finally at Buchholz in the Elz.

The old floodgate to the right, regulated the inflow into the river. The smaller part of the water passes through a man-made channel to the West to the direction of Denzlingen. In the old maps this watercourse was never named Glotter, but ‘Dorfbach’. It flows through the village fence, where the water was used to power the mills and finally to the irrigation of meadows.

Nowadays, the water of the village creek flows through Reute, Nimburg-Bottigen, where it joins the Schobbach coming from Freiburg/Gundelfingen, under the name Glotter until Riegel, where the water flows int the Dreisam.

The old floodgate here has been replaced at the beginning of the village creek by a modern facility, which drains the water at high tide on a defensive wall in the Lossele leaves, so that the river will not be flooded.

Abb.: Historische Karte
von 1763-67
Abb.: Ausschnitt der Historischen Karte
von 1763-67

The big picture of the historical map of 1763-67 shows that the houses and farms in 'Long Denzlingen' are lined up like beads on both sides of the 'Dorff Bach'.