Loquitz
Loquitz Loquwitz, the Lucks |
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The catchment area of the Loquitz - the Sormitz as the main eastern river - is also highlighted. |
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Water code | EN : 562 | |
location | Thuringia , Bavaria | |
River system | Elbe | |
Drain over | Saale → Elbe → North Sea | |
source | at Lehesten 50 ° 27 ′ 17 ″ N , 11 ° 25 ′ 10 ″ E |
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Source height | approx. 630 m | |
muzzle | at Eichicht (Gem. Kaulsdorf ) in the Saale Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 50 ″ N , 11 ° 26 ′ 5 ″ E 50 ° 36 ′ 50 ″ N , 11 ° 26 ′ 5 ″ E |
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Mouth height | approx. 230 m | |
Height difference | approx. 400 m | |
Bottom slope | approx. 12 ‰ | |
length | 33.7 km | |
Catchment area | 364.3 km² | |
Discharge at the Kaulsdorf – Eichicht A Eo gauge : 362.3 km² Location: 1.8 km above the mouth |
NNQ (25.10.1959) MNQ 1923–2014 MQ 1923–2014 Mq 1923–2014 MHQ 1923–2014 HHQ (13.04.1994) |
80 l / s 462 l / s 3.84 m³ / s 10.6 l / (s km²) 36.5 m³ / s 129 m³ / s |
Left tributaries | Pigtail | |
Right tributaries | Sormitz |
The Loquitz is a 33 km long tributary of the Saale in Bavaria and Thuringia .
Origin of name
The origin of the name has not been clarified with absolute certainty. The name is probably derived from the Slavic L u kavica . The Loquitz would then be the Wiesenbach. In this case, the Germanization would have to have taken place relatively late. The earlier existence of a pond (Slav. Lokva ) is also possible . However, this is questionable because other places of the same name such as Lockwitz or the Lockwitzbach are occupied by a u.
geography
course
It rises at the transition between the Thuringian Slate Mountains and the Franconian Forest , about 630 meters above sea level below the slate town of Lehesten , not far from the Rennsteig in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district . It then flows through a narrow, deep valley in a northerly direction, in which the B85 and the Frankenwaldbahn Saalfeld - Kronach also run. On the Bavarian side, Ludwigsstadt is the first larger town after the source. Below Ludwigsstadt, the Loquitz winds in an S-bend, past the Lauenstein Castle and the Thüringer Warte over the border to Thuringia. There is the place Probstzella with the former border station and the house of the people . Now it flows on through the wooded Thuringian slate mountains in a gorge-like valley before it takes in its only major tributary, the Sormitz , from the right at Hockeroda . About two kilometers north of Hockeroda, in Eichicht below Eichicht Castle , the Loquitz falls on the left into the Saale at about 230 meters above sea level.
500 m before the confluence with the Saale, water for the Eichichter Loquitzmühle is taken from a ditch . The ditch flows into the Saale 70 m above the Loquitz estuary.
Tributaries
From the source to the mouth. Selection.
- Heubach , from the right in front of the Kießlichbruch near Lehesten
- Aubach , from the right near Lehesten
- Günzelbach , from the right in front of Ludwigsstadt-Ottendorf
- Haßbach , from the left in Ludwigsstadt
- Trogenbach , from the left in Ludwigsstadt
- Taugwitz , from the left in Ludwigsstadt-Unterneuhüttendorf
- Fischbach , from the right opposite the Fischbachsmühle to Ludwigsstadt-Lauenstein
- Steinbach , from the right along the Bavarian-Thuringian border near Ludwigsstadt- Falkenstein
- Zopte , from the left in Probstzella
- Gölitz , from the left at Probstzella- Marktgölitz
- (Bach from Wolfstal ), from the left in Probstzella- Oberloquitz
- Gammigbach , from left to Oberloquitz
- Reichenbach , from the right between Oberloquitz and Probstzella-Schaderthalmühle
- Schweinbach , from right to Probstzella- Unterloquitz
- Sormitz , from the right near Kaulsdorf - Hockeroda
literature
- Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Loquitz . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB 790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 397 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overall table of the Bavarian water directory of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (XLS, 10.3 MB)
- ↑ Thuringian State Institute for the Environment (ed.): Area and water code index and map. Jena 1998; 26 pp.
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↑ The overall table of the Bavarian water directory of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (XLS, 10.3 MB)
indicates a catchment area of 367.85 km². - ^ German Hydrological Yearbook Elbe Region, Part I 2014. (PDF) State Office for Flood Protection and Water Management Saxony-Anhalt, p. 163 , accessed on November 3, 2018 (from: lhw.sachsen-anhalt.de).
- ↑ Elfriede Ulbricht: The river basin of the Thuringian Saale . 1st edition. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1957.