Göllersbach

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Göllersbach
Göllersbach in Hollabrunn

Göllersbach in Hollabrunn

Data
location Weinviertel , Lower Austria
River system Danube
Drain over Danube  → Black Sea
source west of Ernstbrunn Palace
48 ° 32 ′ 9 ″  N , 16 ° 19 ′ 42 ″  E
Source height approx.  320  m above sea level A.
muzzle in Stockerau in the "Stockerauer Arm" of the Danube Coordinates: 48 ° 22 '40 "  N , 16 ° 11' 39"  E 48 ° 22 '40 "  N , 16 ° 11' 39"  E
Mouth height 167  m above sea level A.
Height difference approx. 153 m
Bottom slope approx. 2.5 ‰
length 61 km
Catchment area 448.8 km²
Small towns Hollabrunn , Stockerau

The Göllersbach is a left tributary of the Danube in Lower Austria .

The name is derived from the Slavic personal name * Jelenь (= deer).

River course

The Göllersbach rises in the Lower Austrian Weinviertel west of the Ernstbrunn Palace at an altitude of approx. 320 m. First it flows as Kleiner Göllersbach north of the Ernstbrunn forest to the west, and then swings south just before the district capital Hollabrunn . After Hollabrunn it flows through, among other things, the market town of Göllersdorf named after him . In the western urban area of Stockerau the Göllersbach flows into an oxbow lake of the Danube , the "Stockerauer Arm", which is also fed by the Schmida , among other things . Before the confluence below the Greifenstein power station , a few meters above the Korneuburg shipyard , they both flow into the Danube in the “Krumpenwasser” backwater.

particularities

Although the Göllersbach is approx. 61 km long, it has very little water, a fate that it shares with most of the rivers in the Weinviertel. The reason for this is the river engineering measures such as straightening and draining from the middle of the 19th century.

See also: Waters in the Weinviertel

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BMLFUW (Hrsg.): Area directory of the river areas: Danube area from the Enns to the Leitha. In: Contributions to Austria's Hydrography Issue 62, Vienna 2014, p. 107. PDF download , accessed on July 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ Heinz Wiesbauer and Manuel Denner: Wetlands - Natural and Cultural History of the Weinviertel Waters , Vienna 2013 (published by the Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management and the Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, Department of Water Management)

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