Frosnitzbach
| Frosnitzbach | ||
 Frosnitzbach in the area of the Zedlacher Alm |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | AT : 2-374-64-50-22 | |
| location | East Tyrol | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Tauernbach → Isel → Drau → Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | Zedlacher Ochsenalm 47 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ N , 12 ° 26 ′ 25 ″ E |
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| Source height | 2183 m above sea level A. | |
| muzzle | at Gruben in den Tauernbach coordinates: 47 ° 2 '44 " N , 12 ° 30' 50" E 47 ° 2 '44 " N , 12 ° 30' 50" E |
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| Mouth height | 1128 m above sea level A. | |
| Height difference | 1055 m | |
| Bottom slope | 12% | |
| length | 8.6 km | |
| Catchment area | 45 km² | |
| Left tributaries | Keesbach, Malfrosnitzbach, Fritschnitzbach | |
| Right tributaries | Outer Schnitzbach, Michelbach | |
| Communities | Matrei in East Tyrol | |
The Frosnitzbach is a brook in the municipality of Matrei in East Tyrol ( Lienz district ). It flows through the uninhabited Frosnitz valley and flows into the Tauernbach at Gruben . Large parts of the course of the river lie in the Hohe Tauern National Park .
course
The Frosnitzbach is located in the mountain range of the Venediger Group where it separates the Gschlößkamm in the south from the Frosnitzkamm in the north. It is formed by the two source streams Löbbenbach and Innerer Schnitzbach, which both drain the area of the Zedlacher Ochsenalm and the basin between the peaks of Kristallwand , Löbbenkopf , Innerer Knorrkogel , Äußerer Knorrkogel and Wildenkogel . Shortly after the two source streams merge, the Frosnitzbach takes on the Keesbach on the right-hand side, which drains the Frosnitzkees and flows past the Badener Hütte . As a result, the Frosnitzbach flows through the Frosnitz valley in a south-easterly direction, where it receives the Äußere Schnitzbach on the left and the Malfrosnitzbach on the right. In the area where the Malfrosnitzbach empties, the Frosnitzbach turns east and flows through the alpine pastures of the Zedlacher Alm, Mitteldorfer Alm and the Oberer and Unterer Kataalm. In the area of the Kataalm, the Michelbach and the Kataalmbach flow into the Frosnitzbach on the left, which then flows through a wooded gorge first in a southerly direction and then in a northerly direction. In the lower reaches of the Frosnitzbach takes the Frischnitzbach on the right side before it flows into the Tauernbach below the village of Gruben.
Catchment area
The natural catchment area of the Frosnitzbach is 45 km², of which 5.5 km² (12%) are glaciated (as of 1988). The highest point in the catchment area is the Hohe Eichham at 3371 m above sea level. A.
Energy use
The TIWAG- Tyrolean Hydropower AG introduced in 2004 plans to build the pumped storage power station Matrei-Raneburg ago. In a variant presented in 2006, the water of the Frosnitzbach should also endow the storage of the power plant. Due to strong protests from the population and nature conservation organizations, the plans for the pumped storage power plant were slimmed down and rescheduled for a run-of-river power plant on the Tauernbach without deriving the Frosnitzbach.
Even Alfred Thenius developed plans for using the Frosnitzbaches. His plans suggested the construction of a 32 million cubic meter water reservoir at an altitude of around 2100 meters, the water of which should have been diverted through a six-kilometer-long pressure pipeline between the reservoir and the equalization basin including the power house in the area of the Schildalm am Tauernbach. However, due to the location of the storage facility in the Hohe Tauern National Park, these plans were never pursued, and the Austrian Alpine Association, as the landowner, would never have approved these plans.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government Dept. Environmental Protection (Ed.): Nature Conservation Plan of the Tyrolean River Areas. Classification of the river area-specific natural area potential. District: East Tyrol. Lienz 2004
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (Ed.): Area directory of the Austrian river basins: Draugebiet. Contributions to the hydrography of Austria, issue No. 59, Vienna 2011, p. 8 ( PDF; 3.5 MB )
- ^ Max H. Fink, Otto Moog, Reinhard Wimmer: Flowing waters - natural areas of Austria . Umweltbundesamt Monographs Volume 128, Vienna 2000, pp. 47–48 ( PDF; 475 kB )
- ^ Kurier : "Raneburg power plant is getting smaller". Less basic consumption, compensation basin at the entrance to the Virgental, February 16, 2006
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung : “Next visit by Tiwag. The board presents the Tauernbach power plant to the Matreier mandatars in a slimmed-down form. Then the project for EIA will be submitted ”, November 14th, 2012
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung : “Thenius variant. "There is a rustling and splashing", August 6, 2006
literature
- Brigitte Sacher: Studies on vegetation and soils in the Frosznitz Valley (Hohe Tauern, East Tyrol). Vegetation dynamics and soil development as well as usage aspects of selected plants in the alpine and subalpine level. Innsbruck 2006
