Beetle (river)

The Bruche (German Breusch) is a French Rivière which crosses the south of the Département of the Low-Rhine in Alsace. Of all the rivers tributary of the Ill, it is most constant in its flow.

The course of the Beetle

The Beetle takes its source on the territory of the commune of Saales, on the northern slope of the Climont. It moves initially towards the north-north-east by an often narrow valley where the railway and the Trunk road 420 must borrow many bridges. After Schirmeck, the valley obliques towards the east and widens.

The river crosses Mutzig and Molsheim, its principal affluents are Climontaine, Schirgoutte, Ranville, Chergoutte, Rothaine, the rupt of Framont, Netzenbach, Hasel, Magel, the brook of Still and the Mossig. The Beetle throws itself in the Ill with Strasbourg with the locality of the Gliesberg.

The channel of the Beetle

Downstream from Molsheim, with Wolxheim it Channel (village built to place the workmen employed in the sandstone careers of Soultz-the-Baths), part of the water of the river feeds the channel of the Beetle which crosses the plain of Alsace to Strasbourg. This channel, completed in 1682, is the work of Vauban which carried out it in two years. Louis XIV borrowed the canal bank of the Beetle at the time of an inspection of the fortifications of the town of Strasbourg on June 29th, 1683.

Of a 20 km length (19,78 km precisely), punctuated of 11 locks to absorb uneven of 29 m, it made it possible to bring to Strasbourg the stones of the Vosges necessary to the realization of the citadel of the city, following its reconquest in 1681. The simultaneous installation of the river also made more effective the Flottage of wood. More recently, the transport of the wine, wood, bricks and the tiles lasted until in 1939. Certain bridges bombarded during the second world war were rebuilt too low, preventing navigation. Today, the old tow path became a cycle track (Molsheim - Germany) appreciated townsmen and fishing is famous there.

Anecdote

Tie left the geography of the place, the author of data base Jacques Martin, born with Strasbourg, made valley of the Beetle the theater of certain adventures of its hero Guy Lefranc.

See too

  • the List of the rivers of France

  • the Ill

External bonds

  • Dictionary of the rivers and channels in the Babel Project: the channel of the Beetle

  • Board of management of the basin Beetle - Mossig: Defense association of the water quality of the Beetle.

  • Site of the PIKE PERCH

  • Flows characteristic of Ill

  • Flows characteristic of the Beetle

  • Bank the Hydro - A2860110 Station - Beetle with Holtzheim (option Synthesis)

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