Grumbach (Werra)

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Grumbach
At the Grumbach Bridge in Meimers.

At the Grumbach Bridge in Meimers.

Data
location Thuringia , Germany
River system Weser
Drain over Werra  → Weser  → North Sea
source Southwest slope of the Great Weissenberg , Rennsteig
50 ° 50 ′ 48 ″  N , 10 ° 24 ′ 35 ″  E
Source height approx.  715  m above sea level NN
muzzle For Breitungen / Werra coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 30 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 21 ″  E 50 ° 46 ′ 30 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 21 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  242  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 473 m
Bottom slope approx. 34 ‰
length 14 km
Catchment area > 10 km²
Right tributaries Kallenbach (3.6 km)
Small towns Bad Liebenstein

The Grumbach is a 14 km long orographically right tributary of the Werra in Thuringia in Germany .

course

The headwaters of the Grumbach drain the southwest slope of the main ridge of the Thuringian Forest on the Rennsteig from the Großer Weißenberg (747 m) to the northwest over the Gerberstein (728 m) to the Glöckner (702 m).

The named Grumbach arises in Steinbach through the confluence of the Kallenbach from the right into the main Steinbach headwaters . Below Steinbach follows Bad Liebenstein , then the Grumbach flows in a natural bed past the Sorga settlement and the Meimers district , changes its direction of flow in a south-westerly direction and flows into the Werra at Grumbach , a district of Breitungen .

Surname

The name of the Grumbach flowing past was used twice: Grumbach as one of the two founding places of (Bad) Liebenstein and Grumbach as a district of Breitungen at the mouth. The former municipality of Steinbach was also named after the source stream of the same name.

Economic history

Steinbach was a center of mining and metal processing as early as the High Middle Ages . Numerous grinding knots for the manufacture of knife blades were operated on the Steinbach until around 1920 .

In the urban area of ​​Bad Liebenstein, the creek was exposed to significant pollution, especially cadmium , due to the Bad Liebenstein fluorescent plant, which was operated near the water from 1948 to 1990 . In the course of the demolition of the industrial wasteland, decontamination and rehabilitation of the flowing water also took place from 2003. Today the Grumbach feeds the ponds in the Elisabeth and Stadtpark in Bad Liebenstein.

literature

  • Eduard Fritze: History about Bad Liebenstein, Schweina, Steinbach and Atterode ; Elch Verlag 1999 (first printed in 1925); ISBN 3-933566-09-6
  • Between Ruhla, Bad Liebenstein and Schmalkalden (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 48). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1989.

Web links

Commons : Grumbach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Topographic map 1: 25,000
  2. ↑ a b Lengths per geopath (kmz, 10 kB)
  3. ↑ Renovation of the former fluorescent material factory , www.thueringen.de, accessed on November 2, 2017