Gabelbach (Ilm)

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Gabelbach
The Gabelbach in the old spa park in Ilmenau

The Gabelbach in the old spa park in Ilmenau

Data
location In the Thuringian Forest near Ilmenau
River system Elbe
Drain over Ilm  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source Herzogröder Wiese at Kickelhahn
50 ° 39 ′ 29 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 21 ″  E
Source height 710  m
muzzle Ilm in Ilmenau Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 54 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 37 ″  E 50 ° 40 ′ 54 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 37 ″  E
Mouth height 480  m
Height difference 230 m
Bottom slope 66 ‰
length 3.5 km
Catchment area approx. 7 km²
Medium-sized cities Ilmenau ( spa district )

The Gabelbach is a right tributary of the Ilm in Thuringia.

course

It rises at the Gabelsbachkopf on the Herzogröder meadow . The valley is bordered by the Lindenberg in the east and the Kickelhahn in the west. In the upper section of the valley are the Gabelbach hunting lodge , a forest seat that the dukes used to stay when hunting, and the Gabelbach mountain hotel . The stream meanders through the Gabelbachtal . At its lower reaches it feeds the Ritzebühler ponds and then flows through the Ilmenau spa district, partially piped in its last section . After a run of 3.48 kilometers it joins the Ilm at the Tannenbrücke in Ilmenau .

Others

There, on the slope of the Lindenberg, the winter sports facilities of the city of Ilmenau are in a relatively snow-sure location . In addition to a no longer usable ski jump , a curling facility , the alpine slope with a ski lift , the former Ilmenau bobsleigh track ended here . A tennis court is located a little below these facilities .

The former Frauenwälder Straße, which was part of the old trade route Erfurt - Nuremberg , of the Frankenweg leads through the valley , after it was moved through Ilmenau in 1324 , left Ilmenau at the Endleich- or Frauenwälder gate and crossed the Ilm at the Tannenbrücke .

Today this high road connects Ilmenau with Neustadt am Rennsteig and Stützerbach . From the Dreiherrnstein it runs directly on the Thuringian Höhenweg Rennsteig . In the 1920s and 1930s, the so-called Gabelbach races took place on the first part of this street . Since the end of the 1980s, a mountain time trial has been held annually on the Sunday after Ascension Day as part of the Thuringian cycling week.

Origin of name

The name is derived from the Old High German gabala or Middle High German gabele (fork). Presumably the fork-like watercourse is alluded to.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elfriede Ulbricht: The river basin of the Thuringian Saale. A name-based investigation (= German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history. No. 2, ISSN  0070-3893 ). Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1957, (at the same time: Leipzig, University, dissertation, 1954).