Lossa (Unstrut)
Lossa | ||
The Lossa near Büchel at the level of the cemetery |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 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
Individual evidence
- ^ River lengths in Thuringia - State Institute for Environment and Geology.
- ^ Thuringian State Institute for the Environment (ed.): Area and waterway key figures (directory and map). Jena 1998. 26 pp.