Ikva
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Ikva Ikwa (outdated: Eicha), upper reaches: Aubach , Tauscherbach, Zeiselbach, Spitalbach |
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| location | Burgenland (Austria) and Győr-Moson-Sopron County (Hungary) | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Einser Canal → Rabnitz → Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | as Aubach in the Rohrbacher Wald 47 ° 40 ′ 22 ″ N , 16 ° 24 ′ 55 ″ E |
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| muzzle | at Tőzeggyármajor (east of Pamhagen ) in the Einser Canal coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 32 ″ N , 16 ° 57 ′ 34 ″ E 47 ° 41 ′ 32 ″ N , 16 ° 57 ′ 34 ″ E
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| length | approx. 60 km | |
| Catchment area | 675.5 km² | |
| Discharge at the Fertőszentmiklós gauge |
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1 m³ / s |
| Discharge at the Tőzeggyármajor gauge |
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1.5 m³ / s |
| Right tributaries | Arany patak (Goldbach), Kardos-ér | |
| Medium-sized cities | Sopron | |
| Small towns | Fertőszentmiklós | |
| Communities | Loipersbach , Schattendorf , Kópháza , Nagycenk , Pereszteg , Pinnye , Ebergőc , Röjtökmuzsaj, Petőháza , Fertőendréd | |
The Ikva (German Ikwa , Spitalbach , also outdated Eicha ) is a 60 km long river mainly in the western Hungarian county of Győr-Moson-Sopron .
In the upper reaches the Ikva flows through the city of Sopron ( Ödenburg ); on the lower reaches the small town of Fertőszentmiklós ( Sankt Niklaus am Neusiedlersee ). The Hungarian name Ikva (probably a modification of Eicha ) only bears the river when it reaches the urban area of Sopron; the German name in the Sopron area is Spitalbach . Their origins lie in Austria , in the Rohrbach Forest. In the uppermost section of the river, the water initially bears the name Aubach ; this leaves the Austrian territory as Zeiselbach near Schattendorf .
The Ikva flows east of Pamhagen into the Einser Canal , which drains over the Rabnitz to the Danube . Until the canal was built in 1895, the river drained into the Hanság (Waasen), a once extensive moorland southeast of Lake Neusiedl . Its largest tributaries are the Goldbach (Arany patak), which flows into Nagycenk , and the Kardos-ér (Nikitscher Bach in the upper reaches). The lower course of the river is heavily regulated (Ikvacsatorna = Ikvakanal). The landscape around the middle section of the river is called Eichaboden (ung. Ikva-sík ) in German. Kópháza (kr. Koljnof / dt. Kohlnhof), the largest of the 14 settlements in Hungary that are inhabited by Burgenland Croats, is also located on the Ikva . In the course of regulatory work in 1879, Ikva “released” a special find near Petőháza : the so-called Cundpald chalice , a measuring chalice from the late 8th century.
Web links
- Ikva . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 9, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1907, p. 751 .
- Ikva in A Pallas nagy lexikona ( Hungarian )
Individual evidence
- ↑ BMLFUW (ed.) : List of areas of the river areas: Leitha, Rabnitz and Raab areas. In: Contributions to Austria's hydrography, issue No. 63, Vienna 2014, pp. 16/17. PDF download , accessed July 7, 2018.