Oswaldbach (Great Mittweida)
| Oswaldbach | ||
 The Oswaldbach north of Waschleithe. |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | DE : 5412892 | |
| location | Saxony | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Große Mittweida → Schwarzwasser → Zwickauer Mulde → Mulde → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source | northeast of Grünhain 50 ° 35 ′ 54 ″ N , 12 ° 49 ′ 23 ″ E |
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| Source height | 684 m above sea level NHN | |
| muzzle | in Wildenau Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '31 " N , 12 ° 47' 46" E 50 ° 32 '31 " N , 12 ° 47' 46" E |
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| Mouth height | about 419 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | about 265 m | |
| Bottom slope | about 28 ‰ | |
| length | about 9.5 km | |
| Catchment area | 21 km² | |
The Oswaldbach is an approximately 9.5 km long right tributary of the Große Mittweida in the Saxon Ore Mountains .
geography
course
The Oswaldbach rises at 684 m above sea level. NN in Schleßwig (also Great Black Wood ), a moored forest area below the Black Stone ( 706 m above sea level ) northeast of Grünhain . Unlike most of the rivers in the Saxon Ore Mountains, it runs mainly in a southerly direction. After a few hundred meters, he enters the protected landscape Oswaldtal one. In the upper part of the valley it is crossed by the state road S 222. Here at Glasberg existed a village in the Thirty Years' War desolate fell and the steel, 34.6 m high Flösselbrücke , a lattice bridge the railway line Zwönitz Scheibenberg , spanned the valley was mined until the 1,972th Shortly afterwards the Fischbach coming from Grünhain flows towards it from the right and the Flössel a little further on . The stream then flows through the Hammerwiesen, where the abbot or Niklashammer processed iron ore as early as the 13th century . Due to the harder muscovite schist, the valley narrows. It then flows through Waschleithe , then turns towards WSW and flows into the Große Mittweida in the Schwarzenberg district of Wildenau .
Tributaries
- Fischbach (r)
- Moosbach (l)
- Flössel (l)
- Schwarzenberg water (l)
- Seifenbächel (r)
- Sudel (l)
- Sauerwiesenbächel (r)
Surname
The name is derived from the patron saint of miners, Sankt Oswald , after whom the St. Oswaldskirche (Dudelskirche) was named.
economy
The Oswaldbach and its catchment area were used intensively economically. In Schleßwig there were numerous peat cuttings in the 18th and 19th centuries. In some years up to 200 so-called Saxoners from nearby Bohemia hired themselves here. A 200 m long hammer ditch was dug for the Niklashammer, wood was rafted in the Flössel in earlier times and tin was soaped in the Seifenbach , which now flows through the Heimatecke miniature showroom . The Osterlamm treasure trove also used the water from an artificial trench branching off from the Oswaldbach for their stamping and washing . Since the middle of the 19th century, the ditch was still used by the Osterlamm board mill and at the beginning of the 20th century by the Huebschmann brothers' grinding and cardboard factory, where the water, passed through a tunnel, was also used to generate electricity.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map overview of the Saxon water network. Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology, accessed on July 13, 2014 .
- ^ Ivonne Burghardt and Rengert Elburg: Mining activities of the Cistercian monastery Grünhain (Erzgebirge) in the 13th and 14th centuries - source-critical investigations and archaeological prospecting . In: State Office for Archeology Saxony (Hrsg.): Work and research reports on the Saxon soil monument preservation . Supplement 29, 2014, ISBN 978-3-943770-16-2 , pp. 273 (ArchaeoMontan 2014. Results and Perspectives. International Conference Dippoldiswalde October 23-25, 2014).
literature
- Eberhard Groß: Hike through the valley of the Oswaldbach. From the source to the mouth . In: Our home . Rockstroh's illustrated sheets on the history of the Western Ore Mountains. Mike Rockstroh, Aue 2005, DNB 986550922 .
- Valley of the Oswaldbach. In: Um Aue, Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt (= values of our homeland . Volume 20). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1972, p. 86.
