Upper Lusatian scales
The rock valleys of the streams and rivers in Upper Lusatia are called the scale . The Sorbian word skała means “rock”. The scales are mostly located at those points where the waters of Upper Lusatia, which run from south to north, have cut deep into the granite subsoil of the Upper Lusatian region . In many cases, the valley edges were reinforced by ramparts , the so-called "entrenchments", and used for defense from the Bronze Age . Therefore most of the jumps are located near the scales mentioned below.
List of Upper Lusatian scale valleys
- Georgewitzer scale at Löbauer water
- Gröditzer Skala on Löbauer Wasser
- Höllengrund on the Großschweidnitz water
- Lausker Skala on the Kotitzer water
- Spittwitzer Skala on the Hoyerswerdaer Schwarzwasser
- Nedaschützer Skala on the Hoyerswerdaer Schwarzwasser
- Seitschen scale on the long water
- Neustädtler Skala at the monastery water
- Spreepark (Neusalza-Spremberg) on the Spree
literature
- Alfred Moschkau : Löbau and its surroundings - a guide through this old four-city, on the Löbauer Berg, Cottmar, Rothstein, Sonneberg, Horken and in the Scala , Verlag Petzold, Dresden 1872 ( digitized )