Grünbach (Elbe)

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Grünbach
Amselgrundbach
Grünbach in Amselgrund near Rathen

Grünbach in Amselgrund near Rathen

Data
Water code DE : 537134
location Saxon Switzerland , Saxony , Germany
River system Elbe
Drain over Elbe  → North Sea
source in Rathewalde
50 ° 59 ′ 16 ″  N , 14 ° 4 ′ 36 ″  E
muzzle in Niederrathen from the right and north into the Elbe coordinates: 50 ° 57 '27 "  N , 14 ° 4' 50"  E 50 ° 57 '27 "  N , 14 ° 4' 50"  E

length 4.6 km
Left tributaries Dry brook
Right tributaries Mensel river, Wehlgrundbach
Reservoirs flowed through Amselsee

The (in the regional language variety also the ) Grünbach or Amselgrundbach is a southward flowing right tributary of the Elbe from the Amselgrund in the Saxon Switzerland National Park in Saxony . Its course is mainly accessible through hiking trails.

geography

Grünbach am Amselfall

course

The stream rises above the Hohnstein district of Rathewalde in the granite, which, in contrast to smaller streams in the sandstone, has a year-round water supply. This probably earned him the name of the (always) green stream. It takes in several smaller streams and rivulets, including the Mensel river from the right about 300 meters after leaving the village. After another 600 meters, the Grünbach plunges over the Amselfall at its 10 m height, the largest slope of the Amselgrund , which is narrowed like a gorge . In addition to an inn, an information center for the national park has also been located in the Amselfall chalet next to it.

After taking in the Dürren Bach coming from the left from the Höllgrund , the Grünbach enters the 600 meter long Amselsee , which is mainly used for tourism and which was created in 1934 by building a dam , less than a kilometer after the Amselfall . Only about 200 meters after this most balanced section of the Grünbach, the Wehlgrundbach flows from the right and west out of the Wehlgrund , at the upper end of which is the Rathen rock stage .

Yaw ferry over the Elbe in Rathen , view upstream. The Grünbach flows out to the left at the Niederrathen station

The Grünbach then reaches the Rathener district of Niederrathen on the right bank of the Elbe and now flows through the second village in its course. There it flows into the Elbe in the immediate vicinity of the yaw ferry station , which here reaches the end of a loop of the river facing west , which it entered at Prossen .

Tributaries and side valleys

Hierarchical list, each from the source to the mouth:

  • Mensel river (right)
  • Falls over the Blackbird Falls
  • Deep bottom (right)
  • Schwedenlöcher (right)
  • Drought brook from the wet bottom (left)
    • Brückengrundbach from the Höllgrund (right)
  • Flows through the Amselsee
    • Suction base (left)
    • Raaber Kessel (right)
  • Wehlgrundbach from the Wehlgrund (right)
  • Flows through a mill pond
  • Köppelgrund (left)
    • Försterloch (left Obertal)
    • Buttermilchloch (right Obertal)
    • Schwarzfärbergrund (right)
    • Aspichgraben (left)

Protected areas

The Amselgrund with the Grünbach in sections formed the eastern border of the Bastei nature reserve (7.8 km²), which was established in 1938 and was upgraded in 1956 when the Saxon Switzerland protected landscape area (368 km²) was designated. Since 1990 the Amselgrund area has also been part of the 93.5 km² Saxon Switzerland National Park .

The Grünbach is classified as a potential salmonid body of water, salmon or trout are expected to spawn in it.

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Amselsee - Amselfall. In: Oberelbe.de - regional portal Saxon Switzerland. Retrieved December 17, 2017 .
  2. ^ Hermann Adalbert Daniel : Handbook of Geography . tape 3 . Friedrich Bruckmann, Stuttgart 1863, p. 271 ( digitized version in Google book search).
  3. ↑ Königstein area, Saxon Switzerland (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 1). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1957, p. 17.
  4. ↑ Gunnar Klehm: No time for Green Brook remediation. In: Sächsische Zeitung online. August 2, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2017 .