Lichtenau (river)

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Lichtenau
Quellbach: Floßgraben
upper course: Lubenbach or Lübenbach
The Lichtenau in Zella-Mehlis just before the sea aquarium.

The Lichtenau in Zella-Mehlis just before the sea aquarium.

Data
Water code DE : 41288
location Schmalkalden-Meiningen district , Thuringia
River system Weser
Drain over Schwarza  → Hasel  → Werra  → Weser  → North Sea
source Northwest slope of the Großer Beerberg
50 ° 40 ′ 11 ″  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 4 ″  E
Source height 846.3  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in Schwarza in the Schwarza (confluence with the Schönau ) Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 11 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 2 ″  E 50 ° 37 ′ 11 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 2 ″  E
Mouth height 348.6  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 497.7 m
Bottom slope 24 ‰
length 20.7 km
Catchment area 49.4 km²
Left tributaries Kröhlisgrund (mouth below Benshausen; 2.9 km), Bach of Ebertshausen (1.7 km)
Right tributaries Pfanntal (1.3 km), Sterngrund (1.4 km), Heinrichsbach (3 arms; 3.9 km), Ruppertstal (2.5 km), Meisenbach (Grenzbach Zella-Mehlis / Benshausen; 1.6 km)
Small towns Zella Mehlis
Communities Schwarza
The Lichtenau in Zella-Mehlis.

The Lichtenau in Zella-Mehlis.

The Lichtenau is a 20.7 km long left tributary of the Schwarza in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in Thuringia .

The stream rises on the northwest slope of the Great Beerberg in the central Thuringian Forest . The source is the union of two short trenches 300 m west of the main ridge and 110 m west of the Rennsteig . Under the name of Floßgraben, it initially flows north, west and south , near the local border to Oberhof , in the form of a semicircle open at the bottom. At the northernmost point is the Oberhof train station . To the southwest, the water reaches Zella-Mehlis , the largest place on its course. Here some of the less important tributaries flow from the right.

The Lichtenau, also called Lubenbach here, leaves the city and at the same time the actual Thuringian Forest in a westerly, later south-westerly direction and flows in the red sandstone foreland through Benshausen and its eastern part Ebertshausen . Here it is only called Lichtenau and finally flows in Schwarza from the left or east into the Schwarza coming from the northeast , which above this confluence is mostly called Schönau .

The Lichtenau is one of the main arms of the hazel fan . The now disbanded federal highway 280 from Zella-Mehlis to Meiningen ran in its valley . Railways ( from Erfurt to Schweinfurt and Zella-Mehlis-Wernshausen ) only use the upper part of the valley from about 2 km after the source to the Benshauser Grund.

Web links

Commons : Lichtenau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DTK10 in http://www.geoproxy.geoportal-th.de/geoclient/control
  2. ↑ a b c d River lengths according to Geoppfad (kmz, 63 kB).
  3. ^ Thuringian State Institute for the Environment (ed.): Area and waterway key figures (directory and map). Jena 1998. 26 pp.