Bega (Tisza)

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Bega
The Bega in Romania and Serbia

The Bega in Romania and Serbia

Data
location Romania , Serbia
River system Danube
Drain over Tisza  → Danube  → Black Sea
origin Banat Mountains
45 ° 54 ′ 53 ″  N , 22 ° 24 ′ 21 ″  E
muzzle In the case of Titel ( Serbia ) in the Tisza coordinates: 45 ° 12 ′ 30 ″  N , 20 ° 18 ′ 54 ″  E 45 ° 12 ′ 30 ″  N , 20 ° 18 ′ 54 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  75  m

length 256 km
Catchment area 2878 km²
The Bega in Timișoara

The Bega (Romanian also Bega , Hungarian Béga , Serbian Begej / Бегеј ), often also called Begakanal (Romanian Canalul Bega , Hungarian Béga-csatorna ), is a 254 kilometer long Romanian - Serbian river or canal . It rises in the Banat Mountains and flows into the Tisza at Titel in the Serbian province of Vojvodina , which in turn drains into the Danube . The body of water is created by the confluence of the Bega Luncanilor and Bega Poieni rivers . The largest city in the Bega is Timișoara . A special feature of the Bega is its low gradient of only 18 centimeters per kilometer; it has been largely canalised and is largely navigable. The catchment area of ​​the Bega is around 2878 square kilometers.

Neighboring locations in Romania :

Neighborhoods in Serbia :

history

The construction of the Bega Canal was considered an outstanding achievement of its time and was under the leadership of Count Claudius Florimund Mercy (1666–1734). Before the canalisation, the Bega offered rich food in a wild, unregulated course to the extensive marshland in the west. The drainage of the swamps seemed to Mercy a necessity for strategic, economic and not least sanitary reasons. The canal was laid in 1727–1733 under the technical direction of military experts. The resulting drying up of the marshes created new, fertile farmland, the Banat Heath .

In 1754 the canal was improved with the average canal starting from Ittebe . In 1759, the Bega Canal, neglected under General von Engelshofen, was expanded under the direction of the Dutch engineer Max Fremaut and connected to the Timisoara by two locks . During the flood, the water masses of the Danube had backed up at the Iron Gate . This backwater caused the water table to rise in the Banat Plain , and the settlers who had settled in Central Banat suffer from the resulting marsh fever . In this project, the Ilantscher and Alibunar swamps south of Timișoara were drained. Between 1833 and 1837 the old bed of the Bega was shortened by a canal from Bobda to Jankov Most .

From 1894 a freight barge operated by Vienna's First Danube Steamship Company (DDSG) operated three times a week on the 115-kilometer route from Timișoara to Titel, where there was a connection to Budapest . The 120 hp stern wheel steamer Temesvár with DDSG road number 270 was used for this purpose, which was built in the same year in the Budapest shipyard .

Extensive repair work took place in 1945. In 1958 Romania stopped shipping traffic with neighboring countries on the Bega Canal. In 1967 the canal was closed to commercial shipping. The canal was desludged and expanded over two years and has been partially navigable again since 2011. A final date for the work on handling freight traffic is currently not known. The total investment for the measures is 22 million euros . After completion of the work, Timișoara will be connected to the port on Pan-European Corridor VII and to other ports from the North Sea to the Black Sea .

In Timișoara, 14 bridges connect the right, northern bank with the left bank of the Bega.

  • The Bega near Zrenjanin in Serbia

  • The Bega in Zrenjanin

  • The Bega in Timișoara, Romania

  • The District Iosefin located inland port of Timişoara (1906)

literature

  • Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija . Third edition. Prosveta, 1985, ISBN 86-07-00001-2
  • Jovan Đ. Marković: Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije . Svjetlost-Sarajevo, 1990, ISBN 86-01-02651-6
  • Rîurile României . Institutul de Meteorologie și Hidrologie, București 1971

Web links

Commons : Bega (Tisza)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Die Schwabenzüge Birda.de, accessed on June 26, 2019
  2. ^ History of Banater Heide ( Memento from April 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), banaterheide.de, accessed September 2008
  3. ↑ Bega . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 2, p. 634.
  4. ^ History of Danube navigation and the 1st DDSG on polpi.net ( Memento from August 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ More about the Danube at polpi.net
  6. ↑ a b Radio Televizija Vojvodine , article Begej Kanal
  7. ↑ a b rumaenien.jouwweb.nl , Romania, Bega
  8. ↑ temeswar.diplo.de , Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany, press review 9. – 15. April 2011
  9. ↑ a b banaterzeitungonline.wordpress.com , Banater Zeitung online, local transport at Bega possible from summer , 3 January 2011
  10. ↑ debizz.ro ( Memento of January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.8 MB), debizz, issue 65: Bega channel between modernity, efficiency and hurdles , July / August 2009, p. 48