Feilebach

Feilebach
The Feilebach in Wiedersberg
Data
Water code	DE : 56614
location	Vogtlandkreis in Saxony , Germany
River system	Elbe
Drain over	White Elster  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source	at Gassenreuth 50 ° 20 ′ 7 ″  N , 12 ° 2 ′ 52 ″  E
Source height	approx.  575  m above sea level NN
muzzle	Near the Elstertalbrücke (Autobahn) to the White Elster Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 40 ″  N , 12 ° 4 ′ 24 ″  E 50 ° 25 ′ 40 ″  N , 12 ° 4 ′ 24 ″  E
Mouth height	363  m above sea level NN
Height difference	approx. 212 m
Bottom slope	approx. 14 ‰
length	15 km
Catchment area	60.3 km²
Left tributaries	Krebsbach, Vogelreuthbach , Weibigbach
Right tributaries	Kuhbach , Schafbach , Lohbach
Reservoirs flowed through	Dröda dam with the Wiedersberg and Ramoldsreuth-Süd foothills and Ramoldsreuth dam
Communities	Triebel / Vogtl. , Gattendorf , Weischlitz

The Feilebach is a left tributary of the White Elster .

geography

The Feilebach rises in an open space west of the village of Gassenreuth, municipality of Triebel / Vogtl. in Saxony near the state border with Bavaria . At first it flows in a north-westerly direction parallel to the national border. At one point this is touched. However, the stream is piped here due to the former border barriers . The Feilebach flows through the Fuchspöhl and Feilebach nature reserves as far as the Wiedersberg foothills, both of which are part of the Green Belt project . From Wiedersberg the direction of flow changes to the northeast. The Feilebach is then dammed three times, first in the Ramoldsreuth-Süd foothills, then in the Ramoldreuth pre-dam and finally in the Dröda drinking water dam , also known as the Feilebach dam. Within the storage area, the Feilebach absorbs the water from its largest tributary, the Schafbach. The Feilebach flows into the White Elster near the motorway bridge at Pirk . In the lower reaches of the Feilebach in particular, a 60 to 100 m deep sole valley has formed.

History

The Feilebach was once lined with numerous mills . The first mill after the source area was near Sachsgrün at the junction to the road to Loddenreuth , the Bachmühle, which is only remembered today by the field name Mühlbergel. At Troschenreuth was the Troschenreuther mill, which was demolished together with the place in the 1970s for reasons of the GDR border security. In Wiedersberg there was the upper mill mentioned in 1573, also known as the wedge mill or wedge mill after a former owner, as well as the Haagmühle mill, also mentioned in 1573 and still preserved today. Further downstream near Wiedersberg was the hammer mill belonging to Heinersgrün , which, like the Riedelmühle in Ramoldsreuth, had to give way to the construction of the dam.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thuringian State Institute for the Environment (ed.): Area and water code index and map. Jena 1998; 26 pp.
2. ↑ Gottfried Bauer: Forgotten Mühlen am Feilebach , in: Vogtländisches Jahrbuch , 11th year, Plauen 1994, pp. 14-18.

General sources

• Hydrological manual. (PDF; 115 kB) Part 2 - Area Codes. Free State of Saxony - State Office for Environment and Geology, p. 27 , accessed on December 25, 2017 .