Lurbach
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| location | Styria , Austria | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Hammerbach → Mur → Drau → Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | northwest of Anger 47 ° 14 ′ 11 ″ N , 15 ° 26 ′ 14 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 890 m above sea level A. | |
| Sinking | at Semriach influence in the Lurgrotte Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '38 " N , 15 ° 22' 48" E 47 ° 13 '38 " N , 15 ° 22' 48" E
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| length | 6.5 km | |
The Lurbach is a stream on the Tanneben in Styria in Austria .
geography
course
The Lurbach rises northwest of Anger, a district of Neudorf . It flows in a south-westerly direction into the village of Semriach and bends to the north-west. Below Lur, the Lurbach sinks after 6.5 km into the karst rocks of the Tanneben limestone and flows underground through the Lurgrotte , the largest stalactite cave in Austria.
Re-exit
After its underground course, the water of the Lurbach comes to light again in several karst springs . The Hammerbach source is at low tide the Lurbachs the only exit point of the previously sunken Lurbachwassers. At medium or higher water levels, part of it rises at the Peggau Lurgrotten entrance, the Schmelzbach spring located there . The Hammerbach and the Schmelzbach both flow into the Mur after a few hundred meters in Peggau .
Tributaries
- Eichfeldbach (right)
- Marktbach (left)