Lossa (Unstrut)

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Lossa
The Lossa near Büchel at the level of the cemetery

The Lossa near Büchel at the level of the cemetery

Data
Water code DE : 56436
location in the Burgenland district ( Saxony-Anhalt ) and in the district Sömmerda ( Thuringia ), Germany
River system Elbe
Drain over Unstrut  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source in a meadow, west of Lossa
51 ° 13 '22 "  N , 11 ° 23' 36"  E
Source height 336  m above sea level NN
muzzle near Leubingen in the Unstrut Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '25 "  N , 11 ° 22' 27"  E 51 ° 13 '25 "  N , 11 ° 22' 27"  E
Mouth height 133  m above sea level NN
Height difference 203 m
Bottom slope 4.7 ‰
length 43.1 km
Catchment area 394 km²
Left tributaries Sulze, Scherkonde , Gänsebach (coming from Buttstädt), Rehrbach and Eßbach
Right tributaries Lossa-Bach, Schafau (in the Frauenbach estuary )
Small towns At the jewelry , Rastenberg
Communities Mannstedt , Guthmannshausen , Olbersleben , Großneuhausen , Frohndorf , Griefstedt , Etzleben
The confluence of the Lossa in the Unstrut

The confluence of the Lossa in the Unstrut

The Lossa is a 43 km long right tributary of the Unstrut in Saxony-Anhalt and Central Thuringia . The name is said to come from Indo-European and contain the word salmon .

course

It rises at the western end of the area of ​​the former municipality of Lossa in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt . The source is in the Finne , a mountain range of the Thuringian Basin . It initially flows south through Rastenberg , Hardisleben , Mannstedt , then west through Guthmannshausen , Olbersleben and Großneuhausen . The Lossa flows into the Unstrut near Leubingen and divides with it the river bed to Griefstedt , where they in turn divide into a left Unstrut arm and a right Lossa arm. The two rivers finally flow together after Gorsleben .

additional

Beginning in 1967, a larger part of the Lossa was straightened in the following years , so that the annual flooding of meadows and arable land almost stopped. In addition, these river engineering measures increased the flow rate. Because of her the year 2002 / 2003 brought up snowmelt and thereby generated backlog of Unstrut she wore at that time significantly to their high water at Leubingen.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ River lengths in Thuringia - State Institute for Environment and Geology.
  2. ^ Thuringian State Institute for the Environment (ed.): Area and waterway key figures (directory and map). Jena 1998. 26 pp.