Müglitz (river)

	Müglitz; in the Czech Republic: Mohelnice
	The Müglitz in Dohna
	Data
Water code	DE : 53718
location	Eastern Ore Mountains Czech Republic Aussiger region Teplice district; ; Germany Saxony District of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains ; ;
River system	Elbe
Drain over	Elbe → North Sea
source	at the Cínovecký hřbet on the border between Saxony and the Czech Republic ; 50 ° 43 ′ 36 ″ N , 13 ° 49 ′ 1 ″ E
Source height	780 m above sea level NN
muzzle	in Heidenau in the Elbe Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 38 ″ N , 13 ° 52 ′ 56 ″ E 50 ° 58 ′ 38 ″ N , 13 ° 52 ′ 56 ″ E;
Mouth height	113 m above sea level NN
Height difference	667 m
Bottom slope	14 ‰
length	49 km
Catchment area	209 km²
Small towns	Glashütte , Dohna , Heidenau
Communities	Müglitztal

View from the dam of the Müglitztal retention basin into the upper Müglitztal

Müglitztal near Weesenstein

The Müglitz is an approximately 49 km long left tributary of the Elbe in Saxony and the Czech Republic .

course

It rises in the Czech Republic as Mohelnice on the northeast slope of the 881 m high Cínovecký hřbet (Zinnwalder Berg), near the Bohemian village of Vorderzinnwald, which was devastated after 1945 . After a few hundred meters it reaches the German-Czech state border and forms a winding border river for about 5 km. Here in the upper reaches it bears the name Weisse Müglitz . Shortly after the river of the same name village Müglitz has fully entered on Saxon territory, he takes from the right Schwarzenbach (Czech: Potok Cerny , formerly Sörnitz or Sernitzbach), which at Adolfov (German: Adolf Green) from numerous source poor "in the black (boggy) meadows ”. One of the arms forms the state border for about 2 km.

In the sequence has the Müglitz to about 14 km in length, parallel to a granite porphyry Gradient zone, a directed to the northwest, sometimes over 100 m deep and steep-walled valley in the pending here soft gneiss cut . At Lauenstein it takes in the red water of about the same size from the left . This stream , also called Rote Müglitz , got its red color from iron-containing processing residues from the mining region around Altenberg (Erzgebirge) and Geising that were disposed of in the stream . Today it is still connected to the Aschergraben via the Schwarzwasser .

In front of a quartz porphyry bar that partially towers over the Müglitztal over 250 m , the Müglitz turns north-east near Glashütte and takes in the Brießnitzbach . After another 5 km, after taking up the Trebnitz , it turns back to the north-northwest. It then passes Schlottwitz , Müglitztal , Weesenstein and Dohna before it flows into the Elbe in the Mügeln district of Heidenau .

Tributaries

left tributaries

Heidegraben
Zeidelweidenwasser
Löwenbach
Red water
Great Biela
Reed stream
Bärenhecker Bach
Brießnitzbach (Prießnitz)
Hoppegrund
Zechenaubach
Schlottwitzgrundbach
Winter line
Schmorsdorfer water
Spargrundbach
Rietzschke

right tributaries

Schwarzbach (Sörnitz, Sernitzbach)
Little Kohlbach
Great Kohlbach
Dittersdorfer Bach
Trebnitz

origin of the name

The name means something like "Grabhügelbach" and is derived from the Old Sorbian Mogylnica (today Upper Sorbian Mohilnica ). Here mogyla means "burial mound" and nica means "belonging to". The current form emerged via Mogelitz (15th / 16th century), Moglentz (1516) and Myglice (1587). It is named after Mügeln , the place where it flows into the Elbe.

Former mills

Many mills no longer exist, some have been rebuilt or serve other purposes.

Mills in Voitsdorf ( Fojtovice ), Ebersdorf ( Habartice ) and Böhmisch-Müglitz ( Mohelnice ) in Bohemia
Hartmannmühle Müglitz (Fürstenau)
Kratzhammer (at the lower end of Fürstenwalde )
Lauenstein Mill

Zippenmühle Lauenstein,

Silbermühle (Huthaus) Bärenstein

Böttrich-Mühle Bärenstein

Bärenstein Castle Mill

Bärenhecke grain mill (technical monument)

Upper Büttner Mill

Schullermühle

Hammergut Gleisberg (Eisenhammer Gleisberg)

Obere Mühle Glashütte (wood goods factory)

Paustmühle or Büttnermühle Glashütte (1766–1911)

Mittelmühle (Freitag-Mühle) Glashütte (originally Pochmühle, then grain mill, Lohmühle and oil mill)

Niedermühle Glashütte (factory mill, also Vogelmühle)

Brückenmühle Glashütte (later wood grinding shop and cardboard factory)

Krugmühle near Oberschlottwitz

Herrenmühle Oberschlottwitz

Elisabethmühle Oberschlottwitz

Friedensmühle Schlottwitz (demolished 1991)

Neumannmühle Schlottwitz

Graf's cardboard mill - Schlottwitz sawmill

Orgusmühle Niederschlottwitz

Mühlbach mill in Mühlbach

Peschelmühle (also Püschelmühle) near Burkhardswalde (later pulp mill)

Jonasmühle Burkhardswalde

Weesenstein Castle Mill

Dohna Castle Mill

Erlichtmühle Dohna

Heidenau Mill (flour mill, sawmill and oil mill, today Hotel Mühlenhof)

Drug mill (also Mittelmühle) Heidenau (am Obergraben)

Rote Mühle (also Niedermühle)

Former mills on the Red Water:

Petzoldmühle am Geisingbach (Heerwasser) Geising
Sandermühle Geising
Hammergut Geising
Hartmannmühle
Dietzmühle
Fighter Mill

Former mills on the Brießnitzbach:

Holzmühle Glashütte
Ratsmühle Glashütte

Flood

The Müglitz flood in Glashütte in 1927

Flood of the Müglitz in 2002 in Schlottwitz

The Müglitz, normally a calm river, can turn into a torrential river when the weather is right, especially Vb weather conditions . According to records, eighteen major flood disasters occurred in the valley between 1609 and 2002 , including the floods of 1897, the floods of 1927 , the floods of 1957 and the August floods of 2002 . Flood protection above was Lauenstein the retention basin Müglitztal built.

Traffic development

The flourishing wood and paper industry as well as the Glashütte watch production and the associated precision engineering companies demanded better transport links to the Elbe Valley and Dresden in the middle of the 19th century . Between 1846 and 1864, the valley was therefore made accessible by a valley road. Today the road is classified as state road S 178 in the section Heidenau-Lauenstein (-Altenberg) and one of the most important traffic connections between the upper Elbe valley and the Eastern Ore Mountains. A continuous navigability of the valley is no longer given above Lauenstein due to the construction of the retention basin Müglitztal.

In 1890 the Müglitztalbahn was built, which follows the river to Lauenstein.

tourism

The Müglitztal is a popular hiking and excursion destination. The Saxon King Johann already praised it in the 19th century as "the most beautiful valley in Saxony". Structurally worth seeing are u. a. the center of Dohna as well as Weesenstein Castle and Lauenstein Castle .

In the 1990s, the Müglitztal developed into a climbing area with over 200 routes. The Müglitztal was already used as a training area for climbing.

literature

Around Altenberg, Geising and Lauenstein (= values of the German homeland . Volume 7). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1964.
Between Müglitz and Weißeritz (= values of the German homeland . Volume 8). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1964.
Green League Osterzgebirge (Hrsg.): Naturführer Ost-Erzgebirge . tape 3 : Natural history hiking destinations. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2007, p. 481-513 ( osterzgebirge.org [PDF; 14.6 MB ] Upper Müglitztal; Pp. 514–549 - Müglitztal near Glashütte; P. 569–591 - sources of the Müglitz).
Jürgen Helfricht : True stories about Saxony's most beautiful valley. Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha 2000, ISBN 3-89772-022-1 .

Web links

Commons : Müglitz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Hydrological Handbook. (PDF; 637 kB) Part 3 - Main aquatic values. Free State of Saxony - State Office for Environment and Geology, p. 66 , accessed on December 25, 2017 .
^ German Hydrological Yearbook Elbe Region, Part I 2014. (PDF) State Office for Flood Protection and Water Management Saxony-Anhalt, p. 109 , accessed on November 3, 2018 (from: lhw.sachsen-anhalt.de).
↑ Cerná louka / Black Meadows
^ Geological map of Saxony, 1: 25000, section 101: Dippoldiswalde-Glashütte, 1915
↑ Nature guide East Ore Mountains . tape 3 : Natural history hiking destinations, 2007, p. 446 .
↑ Paul Knauth: The river names of the Erzgebirge . Freiberg, Freiberg 1935, p. 26 .
^ Albert Schiffner : Description of Saxony and the Ernestine, Reuss and Schwarzburg lands . 2nd Edition. 1845, p. 40 ( books.google.de ).
^ Mills in Glashütte ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
↑ deutschefotothek.de

[DE-SN_HH466-1] Hydrological Handbook. (PDF; 637 kB) Part 3 - Main aquatic values. Free State of Saxony - State Office for Environment and Geology, p. 66 , accessed on December 25, 2017 .

[DE-ST_GKJB2014-2] German Hydrological Yearbook Elbe Region, Part I 2014. (PDF) State Office for Flood Protection and Water Management Saxony-Anhalt, p. 109 , accessed on November 3, 2018 (from: lhw.sachsen-anhalt.de).

[3] Cerná louka / Black Meadows

[4] Geological map of Saxony, 1: 25000, section 101: Dippoldiswalde-Glashütte, 1915

[5] Nature guide East Ore Mountains . tape 3 : Natural history hiking destinations, 2007, p. 446 .

[6] Paul Knauth: The river names of the Erzgebirge . Freiberg, Freiberg 1935, p. 26 .

[7] Albert Schiffner : Description of Saxony and the Ernestine, Reuss and Schwarzburg lands . 2nd Edition. 1845, p. 40 ( books.google.de ).

[8] Mills in Glashütte ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[9] utschefotothek.de