Losenice (river)

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Losenice
The Losenice in Rejštejn

The Losenice in Rejštejn

Data
location Czech Republic
River system Elbe
Drain over Otava  → Vltava  → Elbe  → North Sea
Source height 1118  m above sea level M.
muzzle Rejštejn coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 33 "  N , 13 ° 30 ′ 55"  E 49 ° 8 ′ 33 "  N , 13 ° 30 ′ 55"  E
Mouth height 569  m above sea level M.
Height difference 549 m
Bottom slope 35 ‰
length 15.9 km
Catchment area 54.5 km²
Drain MQ
HHQ (2002) 		650 l / s
67 m³ / s
Left tributaries Pěnivý potok
Right tributaries Zlatý potok
Small towns Rejštejn
Communities Nicov

The Losenice (German: Losnitz ) is a right tributary of the Otava in the Czech Republic . It flows through the Bohemian Forest in the regions of South Bohemia and Pilsen .

geography

The Losenice rises at 1118 meters in the moors near Zlatá Studna (German Goldbrunn ), a district of Horská Kvilda , north of the Přilba mountain and flows in a northerly direction to Popelná near Nicov , where the river valley is narrowest. Then it flows Losenice in a north-westerly direction to Rejštejn , where it flows into the Otava. Its course forms the north-eastern border of the Šumava National Park .

Tributaries

history

In earlier times, gold panning was primarily important on the Losenice . Especially in the 14th and 15th centuries gold prospectors settled in the area; In some cases, overburden mounds, soaps , tunnels and former ore mills have been preserved along the river from this period . Above the course of the river near Popelná lie the remains of Obří hrad , a Celtic fortification.

After the gold mining period, the Losenice was mainly used to run sawmills along its course. A paper mill was operated near Lídlovy Dvory.

In 1878 the carpenter and businessman Franz Watzlawick acquired a wood turning shop on the land border between Kašperské Hory and Rejštejn , which he initially expanded under the name of the First Austro-Hungarian Stroller Wheels Factory Franz Watzlawick and later renamed the Bohemia Werke Bergreichenstein . The Bohemia works were during the Great Depression consolidate one of the largest wood processing companies in the Bohemian Forest and acquisitions still employees of the defunct glassworks in Klášterský Mlyn. In the 1930s the company, which also included a sawmill in Borová Lada , had 230-250 employees. After the Second World War, the production of prams was switched to the assembly of kitchen furniture; then the factory buildings were used by the Solo company . The buildings of the former Bohemia Werke have been empty and left to decay since the late 1980s.

During the Elbe floods in August 2002 , the Losenice reached its highest documented water level when the runoff at Rejštejn swelled to 67 m³ / s.

ecology

Due to the relatively unspoilt nature of the region, the Losenice also has a high water quality, which is particularly evident in the occurrence of sensitive species such as caddis flies , various dragonflies and river fleas .

See also

References

literature

Web links

Commons : Losenice  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filip Hartvich: Character and dynamics of the floodplain of the Losenice stream, Bohemian Forest (PDF; 4.2 MB) In: Silva Gabreta , ed. 13 (3); Pp. 237-250
  2. ↑ a b South Bohemia and Bohemian Forest , accessed on August 12, 2009
  3. ↑ a b Bohemian Forest Boundless. Bavarian Forest - Šumava - Mühlviertel . Starý most sro, 2007 (2nd edition). ISBN 3-937067-58-2 , p. 97
  4. ↑ Zaniklá továrna Bohemia-Werke, údolí Losenice