Oelze (river)

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Oils
In the Oelzetal

In the Oelzetal

Data
location Thuringia , Germany
River system Elbe
Drain over Schwarza  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source near Neustadt am Rennsteig district Kahlert
50 ° 34 ′ 6 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 13 ″  E
Source height 758  m above sea level NN
muzzle in Oelze in Schwarza Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '43 "  N , 11 ° 1' 48"  E 50 ° 32 '43 "  N , 11 ° 1' 48"  E
Mouth height 459  m above sea level NN
Height difference 299 m
Bottom slope 30 ‰
length 10 km
Left tributaries Reischelbach (in the Reischeltal ), Grundsbach
Communities Großbreitenbach , Katzhütte
Residents in the catchment area about 1200
The oils in winter

The oils in winter

The Oelze is a ten kilometer long left tributary of the Schwarza in the Thuringian Slate Mountains .

history

The river is first mentioned in a document from 1229 under the name Ůlsna. The word comes from Slavic and means "alder". Presumably there were numerous alder trees on the bank, on which the name was based. Over the centuries the name changed to the current name.

Heinrich II , Count von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg confirms the ownership of a part of the Black Forest to the Monastery of Volkenroda, which is bounded by the Bocksbach and the Oelze, among other things, and releases the monastery from customs on all transports.

At the Oelzequelle

course

The source of the Oelze is 758  m above sea level. NN approx. 500 m east of Kahlert , a settlement that belongs to Neustadt am Rennsteig . In its upper reaches the Oelze flows in an arc around the 737  m above sea level. NN high mountain Rotkopf through the Bettelmannstal in which it feeds the Altenfeld forest swimming pool. In its further course it flows through the place Altenfeld in a valley basin . At the end of Altenfeld in the direction of Katzhütte the Reischelbach flows into the Oelze. Below Altenfeld, the stream continues to flow in a south-easterly direction through the Oelzetal past two former cutting mills , the Unteren Klemmsteiner Mühle and the Leutnantsmühle , which used the water power of the Oelze to drive their mill wheels. The Oelze valley is spanned by the Oelzetalbrücke of the new Erfurt – Ebensfeld line, which was built here between 2007 and 2010. Below the Leutnantsmühle the Grundsbach flows into the Oelze. The river finally flows into the Schwarza in Oelze , a district of the municipality of Katzhütte.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map of the rivers of Thuringia from 10 km² catchment area ( TLUG ; PDF; 1.23 MB)
  2. ^ Otto Dobencker : Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria historiae Thuringiae. Volume 3: (1228-1266). Gustav Fischer, Jena 1925, p. 17, no. 81 .