Necker (river)

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Necker
Necker near Oberhelfenschwil

Necker near Oberhelfenschwil

Data
Water code CH : 317
location Switzerland
River system Rhine
Drain over Thur  → Rhine  → North Sea
source Near the furnace hole
47 ° 15 '18 "  N , 9 ° 16' 42"  O
Source height about  1300  m above sea level M.
muzzle at Lütisburg in the Thur Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '31 "  N , 9 ° 4' 50"  E ; CH1903:  723 968  /  250297 47 ° 23 '31 "  N , 9 ° 4' 50"  O
Mouth height 548  m above sea level M.
Height difference 752 m
Bottom slope 24 ‰
length 32 km
Catchment area 125 km²
Discharge at the estuary
A Eo : 125 km²
at the estuary 		MQ
Mq
 		4.57 m³ / s
36.6 l / (s km²)
Right tributaries Zwislerbach , Tüfenbach , Aachbach
Necker (river) (Switzerland)
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Source and mouth of the Necker

The Necker is a 32 km long river of the pre-Alps in the eastern part of the Toggenburg and right tributary of the Thur . It rises near the Ofenloch , first flows through a remote, deeply cut, wildly romantic forest gorge and finally flows into the Thur at Lütisburg . The Necker and its valley are the namesake of the new municipality of Neckertal, which was created on January 1, 2009 from the merger of Brunnadern , St. Peterzell and Mogelsberg .

Surname

The name Necker is of Celtic origin and means violent, bad, fast river . It comes from the very European word nik , which means to storm off . The development of the name begins in pre-Christian times with the name Nikros , which became Necker via Nicarus and Neccarus . The southern German Rhine tributary Neckar has almost the same name development .

bridges

Over 30 bridges cross the Necker.

Web links

Commons : Necker  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geoserver of the Swiss Federal Administration ( information )
  2. ↑ Evaluations of the water network. (XLSX) FOEN , December 2013, accessed on August 9, 2017 (listing of Swiss rivers> 30km).
  3. ↑ a b Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waters: sub-catchment areas 2km2. Retrieved May 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Albrecht Greule . Research on place names in southwest Germany. The river names of Württemberg: results and problems of their research. P. 61 (PDF; 430 kB)
  5. ↑ Albrecht Greule . Pre- and early Germanic river names on the Upper Rhine, Heidelberg 1973, pp. 141–143. ISBN 3-533-02294-3
  6. ↑ Werner Besch, Anne Betten, Oskar Reichmann, Stefan Sonderegger (eds.): Language history. A handbook on the history of the German language and its research, Volume 4., 2nd edition, Berlin / New York 2004. P. 3463.
  7. ↑ Supplementary information on the name on TÜpedia.