Klausbach (Salzach)

Klausbach
Klausbach shortly after the Glasenbachklamm
Data
location	Salzkammergut Mountains ; Salzburg , Austria
River system	Danube
Drain over	Salzach  → Inn  → Danube  → Black Sea
source	Egelsee , Elsbethen 47 ° 44 ′ 26 ″  N , 13 ° 8 ′ 9 ″  E
Source height	650  m above sea level A.
muzzle	near Elsbethen in the Salzach Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 1 ″  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 30 ″  E 47 ° 46 ′ 1 ″  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 30 ″  E
Mouth height	420  m above sea level A.
Height difference	230 m
Bottom slope	33 ‰
length	7 km

The Klausbach is a right tributary of the Salzach in the municipality of Elsbethen , south of the city ​​of Salzburg on the right side of the Salzach.

General

The Klausbach has its origin in the Egelsee, of which it is the only drain. The Eglssee is a reed meadow and has actually silted up. The stream flows about 2 km to the north, then makes a 90 ° bend to the west into the about 3 km long Glasenbachklamm . After the stream has flowed through the gorge, it continues to flow about 2 km to the west, where it flows into the Salzach . The Klausbach drains the east side of the Mühlstein , the Schwarzenberg and parts of the Gaisberg (Vorderfager, Rauchbichel), Mitteregg, Gurlspitze , Schwaitlalm.

The largest tributaries are the Lettenbach , which flows on the left, and the Gurtbach and Oberwinkelbach , which flow on the right .

The Glasenbach bridge spans the Klausbach . The Halleiner Landesstrasse (L 105), which connects the city ​​of Salzburg with the Tennengau district capital, Hallein , runs over it.

economy

The first known company in Klausbach was a ball mill , which was built in 1770, but was torn away again by a flood in 1798. The later operations in the Glasenbach industrial district were no longer located directly on the Klausbach, but instead obtained the water from a works sewer derived from the Klausbach, which was also called the Pulvermühlbach. This works canal was approx. 1200 m long, branched off from the Klausbach at the exit of the Glasenbachklamm and flowed back into the stream shortly before the Klausbach flows into the Salzach. It is known from 1800 that the water power of the works canal was used by two mills (Höllmühle and Glasenbachmühle), a blacksmith's and weapon smiths, a sawmill and two powder mills . In 1830 the powder makers Löhner and Sinder each operated two powder rammers on the works channel, which were expanded to a total of six rammers by 1883.

The economic use of the Klausbach and its side canal was stopped around 1954. The reasons for this were, on the one hand, the destruction of the weir , which had backed up the water of the Klausbach, by a flood and, on the other hand, the electrification of the sawmill, which at that time was the last company still using the works canal (the operation in the powder-making house was already closed in 1918 ).

Wood drift

The name Klausbach can be traced back to the fact that the stream flowing through the Glasenbachklamm used to be provided with Klausen because of the wood drift . The first timber drift took place in 1860, as a lumberjack was allowed to drift cut timber , but not round timber (also called bloche), from the Höhenwald to below the Höllmühle. However, he had to answer for possible damage to the Glasenbach Bridge, Salzburg-Halleiner Straße and the bridge at the mouth of the Klausbach into the Salzach. Until the opening of the Giselabahn on July 9, 1871 (section of the railway between Salzburg and Hallein ), at least 12,000 fathoms (= 46,680 cubic meters ) of wood had been lifted each year. This wood was needed to fire the boiling plant of the salt works in Hallein. Around 1880, however, wood drifting was discontinued, as wood firing was discontinued due to the new rail connection to the saltworks and switched to coal firing.