Ifta (river)

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Ifta
At the Klingborn, the main source of the Ifta

At the Klingborn , the main source of the Ifta

Data
Water code EN : 4172
location Thuringia and Hesse ( Lüderbach ), Germany
River system Weser
Drain over Werra  → Weser  → North Sea
source Klingborn
51 ° 4 ′ 21 ″  N , 10 ° 10 ′ 7 ″  E
Source height 255  m above sea level NN 
muzzle At Creuzburg coordinates: 51 ° 2 '40 "  N , 10 ° 13' 18"  E 51 ° 2 '40 "  N , 10 ° 13' 18"  E
Mouth height 190  m above sea level NN 
Height difference 65 m
Bottom slope 12 ‰
length 5.5 km
Catchment area 30.7 km²
Right tributaries Lüderbach, Sommerbach, Augraben, Rössebach
Small towns Hit

The Ifta is an orographic left tributary of the Werra in Thuringia in Germany, over the Klingenborn 5.5 km, over the Lüderbach 8.9 km and over the Augraben (Mittellauf: Ölbach ) even 11.1 km .

course

The Klingborn is a heavily pouring karst spring on the outskirts of Ifta. Only 100 m southwest of this spring, the Ifta flows together from the left with the Lüderbach coming from Lüderbach , over which the Ifta water station is routed. The Klingbornmühle was the first grain mill on the river to be found 500 meters further south-east. In the locality, the Augraben (also Ölbach ) meets the Ifta from the south. About 200 m east of the village is the weir corner , where a mill ditch that was laid out in the High Middle Ages was branched off to the grain mills of Creuzburg. The Rösselbach finally follows just below the weir corner .

Surname

The place Ifta is named after the Ifta that flows by there.

Economic history

The Creuzburg mill cascade was supplied with water from the Ifta as early as the High Middle Ages . In Ifta itself, the Klingborn mill was important, as was the oil mill located on the middle reaches of the Ölbach (Augraben) . At the confluence of the Ifta in the Werra was the medieval fishing settlement of Kollendorf belonging to Creuzburg . After 1990 the solid wood plant of Pollmeier GmbH & Co. KG was built on the Pferdsdorfer Weg. The factory site has been expanded several times and extends to the lower reaches of the Ifta. A guest house and a 3-hectare landscape park were also built there.

natural reserve

The area of ​​the Klingborn spring was designated as a nature reserve (size: 1.9 hectares) in 1992, also for the limestone grassland surrounding it. The local orchid working group in the Wartburg district refers to several botanical treasures in its documentation of the location, including the Great Handelwort , Fuchs's Orchid and Great Two-Leaf . The wetland around the spring is home to numerous rare amphibians and insects. A notice board on the main access route provides information about other special features. The BUND , district association Wartburgkreis, designated the Klingborn as biotope of the month March 2001 .

literature

  • Geyer, Jahne, Storch: Geological sights of the Wartburg district and the independent city of Eisenach . In: District Office Wartburgkreis, Lower Nature Conservation Authority (Hrsg.): Nature conservation in the Wartburgkreis . Booklet 8. Printing and publishing house Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, ISBN 3-9806811-1-4 , p. 32-33 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Topographic map 1: 25,000
  2. ↑ a b Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
  3. ↑ a b In the water station, the Ifta is measured over the Lüderbach, which results in a length that is 8.9 km longer than the Klingenborn. If you measure over the 6.9 km long right tributary Augraben , which flows into it 4.2 km above the Ifta estuary, you come to 11.1 km.
  4. ↑ Thuringian State Institute for the Environment (ed.): Area and water code index and map. Jena 1998; 26 pp.
  5. ↑ In times of heavy rainfall, up to 50 liters per second were determined.
  6. ^ NN: The Klingborn near Ifta. Biotope of the month March 2001 . In: MFB Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Eisenach (ed.): StadtZeit. City journal with information from the Wartburg district. April issue. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 2001, p. 38-39 .