Deube

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Deube
Data
location Germany ( Thuringia )
River system Elbe
Drain over Ilm  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
Headwaters Eastern slope of the Beierberg near Ehrenstein
50 ° 44 ′ 52 ″  N , 11 ° 10 ′ 3 ″  E
Source height 445.3  m above sea level NN
muzzle In the Ilm coordinates: 50 ° 46 '10 "  N , 11 ° 3' 55"  E 50 ° 46 '10 "  N , 11 ° 3' 55"  E
Mouth height approx.  360  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 85.3 m
Bottom slope approx. 8.5 ‰
length 10 km

The Deube , also: Deuba , is an approximately ten kilometer long tributary of the Ilm in central Thuringia . It runs on the Ilm-Saale-Platte in a heavily karstified region.

course

The Deube rises on the eastern slope of the Beierberg near Ehrenstein . It then flows in a westerly direction across the Deube region , a plateau at an altitude of 400 to 450 meters in which the villages of Nahwind , Döllstedt , Großliehaben and Kleinliehaben are located. This plain belongs to the town of Stadtilm and is used for agriculture, although the dry limestone soils are not particularly productive. In this area the Deube is channeled. After leaving the plain in a westerly direction, it flows through Geilsdorf , where the Arnstadt – Saalfeld railway meets the Deubetal, which it follows to Stadtilm.

Below Geilsdorf, the river temporarily seeps into the karst subsoil. This water does not flow into the Ilm, but reappears in the Remda area about ten kilometers to the east and flows from there into the Saale . In water-rich years, the (regular) estuary is reached at Oberilm , a district of Stadtilm in the Ilm, this last section of the river is also irrigated by other springs, so there is always water flowing into the Ilm.

Origin of name

The river name is derived from the Indo-European dheub or dheup (deep and hollow), from which the Old High German tiof comes . The name of the river means something like the depth .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map of the flowing waters of Thuringia ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - PDF, 1.23 MB; rivers with min. 10 km² catchment area.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tlug-jena.de
  2. ↑ Elfriede Ulbricht: The river basin of the Thuringian Saale . 1st edition. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1957.