Carthans
| Carthans | ||
 Karthane near Glöwen in the winter of 1954 |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | EN : 5912 | |
| location | Germany , Brandenburg , Prignitz | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Stepenitz → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source | Great Pankow | |
| muzzle | in Wittenberge in the Stepenitz coordinates: 52 ° 59 ′ 15 ″ N , 11 ° 45 ′ 50 ″ E 52 ° 59 ′ 15 ″ N , 11 ° 45 ′ 50 ″ E
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| length | 48 km | |
| Catchment area | 436.8 km² | |
| Discharge at the Bad Wilsnack A Eo gauge : 285 km² Location: 17.6 km above the mouth |
NNQ (September 3, 1989) MNQ 1976–2014 MQ 1976–2014 Mq 1976–2014 MHQ 1976–2014 HHQ (January 23, 2008) |
10 l / s 171 l / s 1.21 m³ / s 4.2 l / (s km²) 5.85 m³ / s 11.6 m³ / s |
| Drain |
MQ |
1.8 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Jäglitz | |
| Right tributaries | Cederbach , Penningsgraben | |
The Karthane is a left tributary of the Stepenitz in the Prignitz district . Its running length is 48 kilometers, it has tributaries such as the Cederbach and a number of smaller streams and meadow ditches. The catchment area of the Karthane covers 436.8 km².
Headwaters
The source area of the Karthane (Kehrberger Karthane) is located in the area north of Klein Woltersdorf in the municipality of Groß Pankow , near the Seefeld location between the 128 meter high Butterberg and the 120 meter high Wahrberg.
course
From the headwaters, the Karthane, which, along with the Stepenitz and Löcknitz, is one of the best preserved river systems in Brandenburg , first flows south, through the Vehliner Luch and then west through the Plattenburg pond landscape . From there it meanders slightly northwest to Bad Wilsnack , where it reaches a maximum width of 10 meters and a water depth of 0.6–1.5 meters. In this area, the Karthane forms hollows called Kolk in the curve area, in which carp find hiding places. A special feature is the occurrence of hazel , a fish species that is not found in any other water of the Prignitz. To the north of Bad Wilsnack, the Karthane flows through the Karthan district named after it . In this FFH area, among others , white-tailed eagles (endangered), black storks (threatened with extinction) and cranes (endangered) breed . Behind Bad Wilsnack, the Karthane flows in wide arcs, first in a southerly and then in a north-westerly direction through the Elbe Valley , here it is 18 to 25 meters wide, a few kilometers before the confluence there is an 800 meter long and a 70 meter long near the village of Klein Lüben Meter wide area called the wide Karthane .
muzzle
The Karthane flows into the Stepenitz on the outskirts of Wittenberge , which flows into the Elbe a good kilometer further at 454.9 kilometers from the right . The mouths of Karthane and Stepenitz are used as the Wittenberg city harbor. Above the port there is a barrier structure that can prevent flooding from flowing into the Karthane. In the event of a flood, the Garsedow pumping station ensures the receiving water of the Karthane. The pumping station was built in 1980 with an output of 17 cubic meters per second; In 2015, the output was increased to 12 pumps with a total of 18.2 cubic meters per second.
Web links
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- ^ German Hydrological Yearbook Elbe Region, Part III 2013. (PDF) ISSN 0949-3654. Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Hamburg Port Authority, p. 131 , accessed on October 4, 2017 (German, at: dgj.de).
- ↑ Water development concept (GEK) Karthane. (PDF; 263 kB) State Office for the Environment, Health and Consumer Protection Brandenburg, accessed on June 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Improvement of the landscape water balance in the Karthane EZG
- ↑ Manfred Simon: Flood channels and barriers on the Elbe. In: Manfred Simon, Karl-Heinz Zwirnmann: Water management in the GDR. Published by the Working Group on Water Management at the Institute for Environmental History and Regional Development eV at the University of Neubrandenburg, Edition Bookmark, Friedland 2019, ISBN 978-3-941681-50-7 , pp. 354–359, here p. 356.