Ipeľ
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Ipeľ Ipoly |
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 The Ipeľ at Šahy |
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| location | Slovakia , Hungary | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | In the Slovak Ore Mountains near Lom nad Rimavicou | |
| muzzle | At Szob in the Danube Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 6 ″ N , 18 ° 50 ′ 54 ″ E 47 ° 49 ′ 6 ″ N , 18 ° 50 ′ 54 ″ E
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| length | 232.5 km | |
| Catchment area | 5151 km² | |
| Drain |
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21 m³ / s |
| Right tributaries | Tisovník , Krtíš , Krupinica , Štiavnica | |
_-_location_and_watershed.svg) The course and the catchment area of the Ipeľ in Slovakia and Hungary |
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The Ipeľ ( Slovak ) or Ipoly ( Hungarian ; German Eipel ) is a 232.5 km long left tributary of the Danube .
It rises in Slovakia in the Slovak Ore Mountains (more precisely in the lower part of Volovské vrchy ) in central Slovakia at an altitude of about 1000 m in the mountains south of Brezno and east of the central Slovak capital Banská Bystrica , near Lom nad Rimavicou .
The Ipeľ has a relatively steep, varied upper course with two distinctive changes in direction, the second occurs near the town of Poltár . Above the municipality of Málinec , the river is dammed in the reservoir of the same name . From Lučenec he is accompanied by the hills and mountain ranges of the Juhoslovenská kotlina , which alternate with the river and form the curvy course of today's state border with Hungary .
Here the river flows through the Danube hill country , as does its neighboring river Hron .
The last 140 km form part of the border between Slovakia and Hungary (with one exception at Šahy , where the river flows entirely in Slovakia for 30 km). For the last 20 kilometers, the Ipeľ circles the Börzsöny Mountains in a left semicircle before it flows into the longest river in Central Europe at the Danube Bend of Szob between Esztergom and Vác from the north (left) at Chľaba .
The larger towns on the lower reaches (downstream) Szécsény and Balassagyarmat (both Hungarians) and Šahy on the Slovak side.
In the past there were 47 bridges of all kinds across the river in the section between Ipolytarnóc and the mouth at Chľaba / Szob . Almost all of them were damaged or destroyed in World War II. By 2004 there were 12 bridges on this section, only four of them on the state border. The most important are the railway bridge on the Bratislava – Budapest line , the road bridge in Šahy on the 1st order road 66 ( E 77 ) and the road bridge between Slovenské Ďarmoty and Balassagyarmat . In some places, mostly on the former bridges, there are now pedestrian bridges.
After the two neighboring countries joined the EU in 2004, new bridges were built on the border section, including one between Rároš and Ráróspuszta (opened in December 2011) and a second bridge between Peťov and Pösténypuszta.
literature
- Istituto Geografico de Agostini, Large World Atlas , Munich / Novara 1985
- Brockhaus , Allbuch in 5 volumes and an atlas , volumes 2, 5 and 6, Wiesbaden 1958–1960.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ An article about the bridges in Hungarian, Slovak and English ( memento of the original from February 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Panoramio - Photo of Most Kováčovce Peťov / Bridge Kováčovce Pete. In: www.panoramio.com. Retrieved October 12, 2015 .
