Lober (hollow)
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| location | Germany , Saxony-Anhalt | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Lober-Leine Canal → Mulde → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source | south of Zschölkau 51 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ N , 12 ° 24 ′ 53 ″ E |
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| muzzle | in Benndorf Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 43 ″ E 51 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 43 ″ E
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| length | about 20 km (originally about 30 km) | |
The Lober is a tributary of the Mulde in the Leipzig lowland bay in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt . It no longer flows into the Mulde via its original lower course, but via the Lober-Leine Canal . Up to the latter, the Lober is about twenty kilometers long, together about 36.3 kilometers.
course
To maintain lignite mining, the course of the river was heavily changed several times.
Natural course
The source of the river was south of Zschölkau and ran through Rackwitz to Lössen . Here it united with the Völkaegraben. In the further course the Kreumaer Graben in Zschortau and the Strengbach near Zschepen flowed into the brook as further tributaries. In Delitzsch it feeds the so-called Wallgraben, the former protective moat in front of the city wall. It was also used to operate some water mills. Then it flowed through the city of Bitterfeld . Up to the confluence with the Mulde after approx. 30 km further small streams flowed into the river.
Today's course
The source has dried up due to the lowering of the groundwater level as a result of lignite extraction. Mainly surface water from the fields and towns flows into it. From the village of Rackwitz , the stream is canalised and sealed with foil. The stream is interrupted by the Schladitzer See - which was formerly part of an opencast mine. It flows from Rackwitz as a new canal directly to Zschortau. From Wolteritz, after the interruption, it is used as a drainage ditch and reunites with the New Canal in Zschortau. The foil seal was covered with honeycomb lattice stones and it served to remove the pump waste water from the opencast mines. The course to Delitzsch has been artificially widened or is located directly next to the old stream bed. From Benndorf , the so-called Lober-Leine Canal was built between 1949 and 1951 , as the original river beds had to give way to the Goitzsche opencast mine . It represents today's lower reaches and flows into the Mulde near Löbnitz .
planning
The interruption at the Schladitzer See should be closed by a "bypass" and the Lober should serve as an overflow for both the Schladitzer and Werbeliner lakes . So that the bank areas can be naturally watered again, the membrane barrier should be pierced or removed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b measured with Google Earth
- ↑ Mitteldeutsches Braunkohlenrevier 01 Holzweißig / Goitsche / Rösa ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. LMBV brochure from the series “Changes and Perspectives”, June 2009, page 16, on: lmbv.de (PDF, German, 9.26 MB)
