Northern Taurach

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Northern Taurach
The Johannesfall above the Gnadenalm

The Johannesfall above the Gnadenalm

Data
location Salzburg , Austria
River system Danube
Drain over Enns  → Danube  → Black Sea
origin Confluence of Grünwald-Taurach and Hundsfeld-Taurach , near Obertauern on the Radstädter Tauernpass
47 ° 15 ′ 4 ″  N , 13 ° 32 ′ 44 ″  E
Source height 1664  m above sea level A.
muzzle at Radstadt coordinates: 47 ° 23 '7 "  N , 13 ° 29' 38"  E 47 ° 23 '7 "  N , 13 ° 29' 38"  E
Mouth height 822  m above sea level A.
Height difference 842 m
Bottom slope 42 ‰
length 20 km
Catchment area 88.34 km²
Communities Untertauern , Radstadt

The Northern Taurach (also Pongauer Taurach ) is a right tributary of the Enns . It is one of the two rivers called Taurach , both of which have their source near the Radstadt Tauern Pass , but drain in opposite directions. The two valleys that run down from the Tauern Pass are also both called Taurach Valley . Together they connect the Ennstal with the Murtal in a north-south direction.

course

The northern Taurach rises south below the Seekarspitze ( 2350  m ) mainly from the two streams Grünwald-Taurach and Hundsfeld-Taurach. The Grünwald-Taurach comes from the Krummschnabelsee just below the Seekarspitze, flows into the larger Grünwaldsee and then to Hundsfeld-Taurach. This Hundsfeld-Taurach rises partly from springs, partly from a small lake in the Seekar and flows into the Hundsfeld as a rather important stream. The two source streams unite near the Tauern cemetery in Obertauern .

The first steep step in the valley overcomes the Taurach with the Johannesfall, reaches the flattening of the valley of the Gnadenalm , overcomes another step with the Gnadenfall at the Gnadenbrücke, before it reaches the now widening valley floor near Untertauern .

The lower reaches of the Taurach have fewer tributaries than the upper reaches. Just before the Taurach reaches Radstadt , it bends sharply to the east in the Enns Valley and only flows into it at an acute angle after a few hundred meters, which it flows parallel to the Enns.

The northern Taurach is about 20 km in length, much shorter than the southern , but has to overcome the greater difference in altitude of more than 900 m.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BMLFUW (Hrsg.): List of areas of the Austrian river basins: Enns area. In: Contributions to Austria's Hydrography Issue No. 61, Vienna 2011, p. 3. PDF download , accessed on July 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Josef Roman Lorenz: Comparative orographic - hydrographic investigation of the swamps in the upper river valleys of the Salzach, Enns and Mur, or in Pinzgau, Pongau and Lungau.
    Session reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Mathematical and scientific class. Twenty-sixth volume. 1858 Online ( Memento from May 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive )