Fischerbach (Steyr)

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Fischerbach
Unterlauf: Himmlitzer Bach, Himmlitzerbach, Alte Steyr
Fischerbach at the mouth

Fischerbach at the mouth

Data
Water code AT : HZB: 2-134-326-092, GGN: 406047
location near Steyr , Upper Austria
Drain over Steyr  → Enns  → Danube  → Black Sea
River basin district Danube below Jochenstein (DUJ)
origin in Saaß
48 ° 1 ′ 21 ″  N , 14 ° 21 ′ 31 ″  E
Source height 454  m above sea level A.
muzzle in Steyr-Unterhimmel in the Steyr coordinates: 48 ° 2 '30 "  N , 14 ° 22' 47"  E 48 ° 2 '30 "  N , 14 ° 22' 47"  E
Mouth height 299  m above sea level A.
Height difference 155 m

length approx. 8.8 km
Catchment area 5.545 km²
Left tributaries Dreihanslbach (to the Steyr)
Communities Aschach an der Steyr , Garsten , Steyr
Catchment area including inflow from the Steyr; Length from there: 7.01 km

The Fischerbach , on the lower reaches of the Himmlitzer Bach or Alte Steyr , is a right tributary of the Steyr near the town of Steyr in Upper Austria .

Run

Himmlitzer Bach
Alte Steyr [I]
Water code AT : GGN: 5536
Diversion Krugl-Wehr ( ⊙ ) der Steyr at Unterhimmel 48 ° 2 ′ 38 ″  N , 14 ° 22 ′ 37 ″  E
muzzle near Steyr-Wehrgraben and Christkindl-Siedlung
48 ° 2 ′ 25 ″  N , 14 ° 24 ′ 5 ″  E
Mouth height 292  m above sea level A.

length 2.1 km
Communities Garsten , Steyr
Alternatively, in some cases, the lower reaches of the Fischerbach

The Fischerbach rises near Saaß , which belongs to Aschach and Garsten , in the municipality of Aschach. It then runs as a small meadow stream largely through the north-west of Garsten, first north-west through the Saaß forest to Schwaming , then eastward between Pergern and Tinsting to Rosenegg . He passes Rosenegg Castle with his fish pond. Shortly afterwards, at the municipal boundary to Steyr , after 7 kilometers it joins the Steyr at the Krugl weir . This and the following run is also called Himmlitzer Bach or Alte Steyr . The next 2 km it runs through the Christkindler district Unterhimmel along the Unterhimmler Au (Himmlitzer Au), and flows into the main course of the Steyr between Steyr-Wehrgraben and Christkindlsiedlung , shortly after the diversion of the weir at St. Anna-Wehr.

Hydrography and History

The lower course is a natural arm of the river Steyr, which is blocked here and has been used as a mill canal since the Middle Ages or early modern times. It is hydrographically listed as Alte Steyr  [I]. In addition, there used to be a weir ditch (to ' Stau-Wehr '), as well as for the canal in Steyrdorf, which is still known today. The name Himmlitzer Bach is probably derived from heavenly , weather lights' (the other -himmel- place names here, however, are put to heaven open 'corridor' in relation to the Kirchberg by Christkindl).

Unterhimmel with the Mühlkanal was an important industrial area. The Unterhimmel paper mill (founded in 1636), a hammer mill (copper hammer before 1787, then scythe mill until 1799) and the wire drawing mill of the Werndl'schen Waffenfabrik Steyr (Steyr works, built in 1874) were located here. Around 1850 - without the Werndlwerk - there were a total of five water wheels on the creek. In 1889 the Steyrtalbahn (now a museum railway) was built through the Unterhimmler Au, it crosses the Alte Steyr just below the diversion and just above the mouth.

In the 18th century, the Fischerbach flowed above the Krugl weir north of Rosenegg Castle into the Steyrauen, and was then fed into the Himmlitzer Bach.

The last 300 meters of the estuary became an overflow channel in the early 19th century, with a flood protection dam of the Steyr above the St. Anna weir, from which a wide relief channel comes from the north. This last section of the stream is wide and without any particular current.

Today the Unterhimmler Au between the brook and the Steyr is an important nature reserve, local recreation and flood protection area. Improvement measures have been taken here since the 2000s. In 2009 the Dreihanslbach was reopened as a channel to the Steyr in the course of the construction of the bed load catcher side channel in the Unterhimmler Au . In 2015 the Krugl weir (rebuilt in 1993 to replace an old wooden weir) was equipped with a near-natural bypass channel, so that the Himmlitzerbach is now also fed with upstream water from this weir.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System (DORIS); Subject waters and geology , layer small waters (there Alte Steyr I ) and detailed catchment areas (Fischerbach) .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (ed.): List of areas of the Austrian river basins: Enns area. (= Contributions to Austria's Hydrography , Issue No. 61), Vienna 2011, p. 60 ( PDF, 3.9 MB ( Memento of the original dated December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Lebensministerium.at) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lebensministerium.at
  3. ↑ Peter Prack: News from Unterer Steyr and Enns. Part II in: ÖKO · L 39/4 (2017), Fig. 3, p. 22 ( full article p. 21–35, pdf , files.wordpress.com, accessed September 7, 2018; there p. 2.)
  4. ↑ a b c d The Josephinische Landesaufnahme (around 1780) records a separate Fischerbach estuary, the old Himmlitzerbach estuary; and brings Eisenhamer with him under heaven ; in the Franciscan cadastre (around 1830) already shows the relief channel of the Steyr, the inlet from the north called Steyr Wöhrgraben ; the lower reaches are designated as Himmlitzerbach and Himler Wöhrgraben ; Fischerbach at the confluence; the rest of the creek upwards is not recorded as such, but only as a corridor boundary (all land recordings online on Arcanum / Austrian State Archives: mapire.eu ).
  5. ↑ Christine Grüll: It's good to live in Unterhimmel. ( Heaven on Earth series - A journey to places with “heavenly references” , part 1 of 5) In: KirchenBlatt No. 31 (2011), August 3, 2011 (online, kath-kirche-vorarlberg.at, accessed September 3 2018).
  6. ↑ Friedrich Berndt, Hans Stögmüller: The paper mills from Steyr. In: Yearbook of the Steyr City Archives 2, 2010, pp. 9–44.
  7. ^ Hermann Karrer: Revitalization of the wire drawing works in Steyr, Unterhimmel 1/2. Diploma thesis, Vienna University of Technology, 2001.
  8. ↑ Alois Souvent: Administrative map of the Archduchy of Austria ob der Enns , 1st edition 1857 (online at DORIS: Topic first country recordings , Layer Souvent 1857 - there also other maps).
  9. ↑ ops.cit. Prack News from Unterer Steyr and Enns II, 2017, section 4. Revitalization of the Dreihanslbach , 2009, p. 24, column 2 ff (pdf p. 4).
  10. ↑ Peter Prack: News from Unterer Steyr and Enns. (Part 1) In: ÖKO · L 39/3 (2017), section Organism Migration Aid at the Kruglwehr, 2015 , p. 35, column 1 f, whole article p. 21–35, PDF on ZOBODAT there p. 12.