Monastery water
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Monastery water Upper Sorbian Klóšterska woda |
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 The convent water flows into the Black Elster (left) |
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| Water code | DE : 53812 | |
| location | Saxony , Germany | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Black Elster → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source |
Burkau 51 ° 10 ′ 18 ″ N , 14 ° 8 ′ 30 ″ E |
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| Source height | 287 m above sea level NN | |
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Kotten coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 11 " N , 14 ° 14 ′ 37" E 51 ° 21 ′ 11 " N , 14 ° 14 ′ 37" E |
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| Mouth height | 128 m above sea level NN | |
| Height difference | 159 m | |
| Bottom slope | 6.4 ‰ | |
| length | 25 km | |
| Catchment area | 107 km² | |
| Discharge at the Schönau A Eo gauge : 105 km² Location: 3.4 km above the mouth |
NNQ (0.05) MNQ 1976/2005 MQ 1976/2005 Mq 1976/2005 MHQ 1976/2005 HHQ (13.0) |
3.4 m³ / s 12.08 m³ / s 161 l / s 1.5 l / (s km²) 481 l / s 4.91 m³ / s |
| Right tributaries | Satkula | |
| Small towns | Wittichenau | |
| Communities | Burkau , Panschwitz-Kuckau , Räckelwitz , Ralbitz-Rosenthal | |
The monastery water , in Upper Sorbian Klóšterska woda , previously also Tušina , is a right tributary of the Black Elster in Eastern Saxony . It crosses the core of today's Sorbian settlement area in the Bautzen district in Upper Lusatia . The river got its name from the Catholic monastery of St. Marienstern and flows mainly through areas that were formerly owned by it.
course
The river rises at about 280 m above sea level. NN at the western end of Burkau near Bischofswerda , flows eastwards and joins in the center with another source arm, which rises on the northwest slope of the Butterberg . It crosses the place further from west to east and then turns northwards. Before Ostro , the next place on the stream, the deeply cut valley of the monastery water forms the natural basis for one of the best preserved fortifications from the Slavic settlement period, the "Ostroer Schanze". It rises on the east side of the river, while the place Ostro is on the west side.
In Panschwitz-Kuckau , the monastery water flows around the eponymous St. Marienstern monastery to the south and west and passes the “Kuckauer Schanze”, where the river was also used as a natural line of defense. Shortly after the village, a bridge was wanted to be built for the Radibor - Kamenz ( Saxon Northeast Railway ) railway, which began in 1912 , but its construction stalled in the early stages and was finally stopped during the First World War .
At Räckelwitz the river leaves the Sorbian "Oberland" ( Horjany ) and enters the "Netherlands" ( Delany ). The local floodplain of the river has been almost completely deforested since the Middle Ages. In addition, the monastery water was straightened and regulated in favor of agriculture after 1945. The swampy floodplains and alluvial forests have almost completely disappeared here. The only exception is the Lasker Auenwald nature reserve . The last natural section of the floodplain is located here over a length of around two kilometers.
Until 1945, the river formed the border between the kingdoms of Saxony and Prussia a few hundred meters north of Schönau .
At Kotten the monastery water flows out at about 130 m above sea level. NN in the Black Elster.
Others
The administrative association Am Klosterwasser is named after the river. It includes the five core communities of today's Sorbian settlement area.
During a flood on August 3, 1991, the St. Marienstern monastery was flooded and the centuries-old monastery nursery was destroyed.
literature
- Hydrological manual. (PDF; 115 kB) Part 2 - Area Codes. Free State of Saxony - State Office for Environment and Geology, p. 8 , accessed on December 25, 2017 .
- Alfons Frenzel, Matthias Bulang: Land at the monastery water: Views of a Lusatian landscape . Domowina Verlag, Bautzen / Budyšin 1993
- Lausitzer Bergland around Pulsnitz and Bischofswerda (= values of our homeland . Volume 40). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983, pp. 63-64.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hydrological Handbook. (PDF; 637 kB) Part 3 - Main aquatic values. Free State of Saxony - State Office for Environment and Geology, p. 48 , accessed on December 25, 2017 .
- ^ Jurij Kral: Serbsko-nĕmski słownik hornjołužiskeje rĕče , Budyšin 1927
