Maurerbach (Isel)

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Maurerbach
The Maurerbach below the Essen-Rostocker-Hütte

The Maurerbach below the Essen-Rostocker-Hütte

Data
Water code AT : 2-374-64-14
location Hohe Tauern , Tyrol , Austria
River system Danube
Drain over Isel  → Drau  → Danube  → Black Sea
origin at Maurerkees
47 ° 4 ′ 59 ″  N , 12 ° 17 ′ 19 ″  E
Source height 2720  m above sea level A.
muzzle at Ströden in die Isel coordinates: 47 ° 0 ′ 49 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 13 ″  E 47 ° 0 ′ 49 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 13 ″  E
Mouth height 1391  m above sea level A.
Height difference 1329 m
Bottom slope 14%
length 9.5 km
Catchment area 31.7 km²
Right tributaries Simonybach, Malhambach
Communities Prägraten am Großvenediger

The Maurerbach is a glacier creek and a left tributary of the Isel in the Venediger group of the Hohe Tauern in East Tyrol .

It rises from the Maurerkees at around 2720  m above sea level. A. and then flows south through the Maurertal . He takes the Simonybach from the Simonykees and the Malhambach from the northern and southern Malhamkees from the right. At Ströden in Virgental , it joins the Isel after around 9.5 km from the left .

The catchment area of the Maurerbach is 31.7 km², of which 8.99 km² (28%) are glaciated (as of 1988). The highest point in the catchment area is the western Simonyspitze at 3473  m above sea level. A.

The Maurerbach is largely left in its natural state and, apart from the lowest section, has a very good ecological condition.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c TIRIS - Tyrolean spatial information system
  2. ↑ Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (Ed.): Area directory of the Austrian river basins: Draugebiet. Contributions to the hydrography of Austria, issue No. 59, Vienna 2011, p. 6 ( PDF; 3.7 MB )
  3. ^ Max H. Fink, Otto Moog, Reinhard Wimmer: Flowing waters - natural areas of Austria . Federal Environment Agency Monographs Volume 128, Vienna 2000, p. 47 ( PDF; 475 kB )
  4. ↑ Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (Ed.): Nature Conservation Plan of the Tyrolean Rivers. Classification of the river area-specific natural area potential, district: East Tyrol. Lienz 2004 ( PDF; 647 kB )
  5. ↑ Land Tirol: EU Water Framework Directive 2000/60 / EG, National Water Management Plan, draft according to § 55h WRG 1959