Kutschenitza

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Kutschenitza / Kučnica
Kutschenitzabach
The Styrian-Hungarian border on the Kutschenitzabach before 1918.

The Styrian-Hungarian border on the Kutschenitzabach before 1918.

Data
Water code AT : HZB: 2-220-234-365, STM: 2128
location Austria ( Styria ) / Slovenia border
Drain over Mur  → Drava  → Danube  → Black Sea
River basin district AT: Mur
source at Sankt Anna am Aigen
46 ° 50 ′ 22 ″  N , 15 ° 58 ′ 44 ″  E
Source height approx.  340  m above sea level A.
muzzle at Radenci coordinates: 46 ° 39 '9 "  N , 16 ° 2' 34"  E 46 ° 39 '9 "  N , 16 ° 2' 34"  E
Mouth height 202  m above sea level A.
Height difference approx. 138 m
Bottom slope approx. 5.7 ‰
length 24.1 km
Catchment area 52.48 km²
Communities Sankt Anna am Aigen , Rogašovci , Klöch , Cankova , Bad Radkersburg , Tišina
Austrian-Slovenian border

The Kutschenitza , also Kutschenitzabach , Slovenian Kučnica , Kučnica potok , is a small river, the course of which marks the border between Austria and Slovenia today .

geography

The Kutschenitza rises in the former Styrian district of Feldbach in Austria. Its source area (340 m) lies between the Schirrenkogel (404 m) and the village of Sankt Anna am Aigen (403 m). After approx. 1200 m the Kutschenitza becomes a Grenzbach, after another 2300 m it enters the former Radkersburg district .

In its further course it flows about 20 km in a southerly direction. On the Slovenian side, the municipalities of Rogašovci , Cankova and Tišina touch the border. About one kilometer before the mouth, the river leaves the border and flows through Slovenia.

After a total length of 24 km, the Kutschenitza flows into the Mur (202 m) about 6 km southeast of the town of Bad Radkersburg .

history

The Kutschenitza, German old Kuznitza , Hungarian Kucsenyica-patak , has been the border between the Duchy of Steyer (most recently Crown Land of Styria) and the Kingdom of Hungary since the Middle Ages . With the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1918, the part to the east became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; since 1991 it belongs to Slovenia .

Since Slovenia joined the EU in 2004, the Kutschenitza Valley has been the subject of intensive nature and environmental protection measures; it is to be integrated into the Europe-wide Green Belt project .

literature

  • Norbert Baumann: The Kutschenitza - a border stream through the ages. In 10 years Austrian-Slovenian standing commission for the Mur , Ljubljana / Vienna, September 2001 ( article pdf , on unteresmurtal.steiermark.at) - a short overview of hydraulic engineering measures on the river.
  • Rudolf Grasmug, Werner Kölldorfer, Franz Josef Schober (Red.): Back and forth. The Kutschenitza - border and bridge function in the tri-border triangle then and now and the Southeast Styrian Grabenland. With contributions to: Natural area, Southeast Styrian Grabenland, border area at the Kutschenitza, border and bridge function of Radkersburg and the surrounding area then and now (= Feldbacher contributions to local history of Southeast Styria 7, Feldbach 1998).
  • Naturschutzbund (Ed.): Kučnica / Kutschenitza - on the European Green Belt / na Evropski zeleni vezi - The Slovenian-Styrian border river as a pilot project / slovensko-štajerska rečica kot pilotni project. = Nature and Landscape of Styria , 231st Nature Conservation Letter, June 2014 ( pdf , on naturschutzbundsteiermark.at).
  • (State of Styria, ed.): Kutschenitza. Report on the joint analysis of the problems. Report to determine the status of the problems. As part of proposed measures to solve the quality problems at the Kutscheniza border river and measures to improve the ecological situation of the water body and the area near the water body. EU program for cross-border cooperation Slovenia – Austria 2007–2013, both owA (pdf, on wasserwirtschaft.steiermark.at).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kutschenitza , digital Steiermark waters register (wis.stmk.gv.at).
  2. ↑ BMLFUW (ed.) : List of areas of the Austrian river basins: Mur area. In: Contributions to Austria's Hydrography Issue No. 60, Vienna 2011, p. 118. PDF download , accessed on July 6, 2018.
  3. ↑ Johannes Gepp: Nature conservation across Europe - Unlimited Slovenian-Styrian nature association on the Green Belt. In: Naturschutzbund: Natur und Landschaft der Steiermark , 202. Naturschutzbrief, 2/2004, p. 7, PDF on ZOBODAT