Pfaffenbach Hartau

Pfaffenbach Hartau
The Pfaffenbach at the former municipal office in Hartau
Data
Water code	DE : 674132
location	Saxony
River system	Or
Drain over	Lusatian Neisse  → Oder  → Baltic Sea
source	east of the Brandhöhe at Lückendorf 50 ° 50 ′ 8 ″  N , 14 ° 46 ′ 12 ″  E
Source height	458  m above sea level NN
muzzle	south of Alt-Hartau in the Lusatian Neisse Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 34 "  N , 14 ° 49 ′ 16"  E 50 ° 51 ′ 34 "  N , 14 ° 49 ′ 16"  E
Mouth height	237  m above sea level NN
Height difference	221 m
Bottom slope	37 ‰
length	about 6 km
Right tributaries	Goldbach, Weißbachgraben

The Pfaffenbach Hartau , popularly the Pfaffenbach, is a left-hand tributary of the Lusatian Neisse with a length of approx. 6 km in Hartau in the district of Görlitz .

description

The stream rises in the Zittau Mountains east of the Brandhöhe near Lückendorf , its source is at the junction of the Stadtweg from the Kammstraße. On its upper course, which only has water for the first one and a half kilometers when it rains, the Pfaffenbach flows northeast in the forest through the valley between the Zigeunerberg and the Heideberg . To the east of the Gypsy Mountain, the Haberkornweg crosses the brook on the lazy Brückel near Binis Hüttl. The Pfaffenbach is always water-bearing from the Hölllochern. Your run then leads west past the former shooting ranges through the hospital forest. South of Eichgraben , the brook at Einsiedel is bridged by Lückendorfer Strasse ( Staatsstrasse 132). There he leaves the forest area of ​​the Zittau Mountains and reaches the Zittau Basin .

Its middle course leads west of Neu-Hartau first through a ground lined with old oaks. South of the Rote Höhe, on the left, flows into a nameless and piped tributary coming from the ponds at the Eichgraben forest house. At the former Hartau municipal office, the Pfaffenbach crosses the Neu-Hartau area and takes on the Goldbach.

On its artificially created lower course, the Pfaffenbach flows in an easterly direction from Neu-Hartau to Alt-Hartau, making a wide curve to the north at the southern foot of the Tonberg. At the southern exit of Alt-Hartau, Untere Dorfstraße crosses the stream in front of the border guards houses. The Pfaffenbach flows into the Lusatian Neisse at Alt-Hartau on the German-Czech border opposite the Christinasee ( Kristýna ).

particularities

Since the early Middle Ages , a mule track led through the upper Pfaffenbachtal to Bohemia, the use of which was forbidden in 1361 due to the forced access to Gabler Strasse . Since the middle of the 19th century, several millstone quarries have been operated on the slopes of the Heideberg and Gypsy Mountains. In the course of the "Heimatgeschichtliche Lehrpfad Lückendorf" created by the Lückendorf Association for the Promotion of Culture and Tourism in the Euroregion Neisse eV from 2003, the millstone quarries in the Pfaffenbachtal were made accessible and information boards were set up. Are u. a. the loading ramp, the Napoleon smithy and several broken millstone blanks.

West of Neu-Hartau there was a cascade of smaller ponds in the Pfaffenbachtal until the 19th century, after the Meilenblatt the Schmiedeteich , the Kleine Kramerteich , the Große Kramerteich , the Große Bruderteich , the Rohrteich , the Kleine Bruderteich and the Viebigteich

The lower course of the Pfaffenbach originally led from Neu-Hartau straight to the east, where the brook merged with the Weißbach in the pond and marsh area on the Neisse south of Alt-Hartau. As early as the Middle Ages, the Pfaffenbach was regulated to operate a watermill in Alt-Hartau and led past the ponds to the north. To strengthen the impact water of the Hartauer Mühle, water was later taken from the Weißbach below the Lerchenhöhe and discharged into the Pfaffenbach via a ditch. At the confluence of the Weißbachgraben, a brickworks was built south of the Pfaffenbach in the 19th century. For the mining of the coal fields in the lower Weißbachtal near Alt-Hartau and Görsdorf ( Loučná ) the Weißbach was led entirely over the Weißbachgraben into the Pfaffenbach at the end of the 19th century. On January 26, 1893, the Untere Dorfstr. 46 seasoned Hartauer Mühle completely. The Pfaffenbach was relocated until 1906 and routed around the opencast mine on both sides for the start of open-cast mining operations in the Theodor shaft (southwest of Alt-Hartau between the current course of the stream and the sports field). Until 1914, the coal was transported with an underground chain railway at a depth of 38 m under the Pfaffenbach and the road to Alt-Hartau to the Kronprinz-Friedrich-August-Schacht on the Tonberg and extracted there. With the opening of the new opencast mine east of Neu-Hartau in 1914, the course of the stream was relocated to the north. For coal mining, the Reichenberger Kohlenbau-Verein laid a 650 m long chain railway that crossed the Pfaffenbach and Obere Dorfstraße at a depth of 7 m and then led on wooden scaffolding to the Kronprinz-Friedrich-August-Schacht. After the mining operations ceased in 1924, the chain railway was dismantled and the creek crossing was backfilled. Around 1930 the Pfaffenbach got a new confluence with the Neisse directly on the border with Czechoslovakia, which roughly corresponds to the old Weißbach confluence. The old one from Untere Dorfstr. 46 coming under the street and between the lots Untere Dorfstr. 37 and 39 leading to the Neisse, the dry Pfaffenbach course with some pastures is still clearly visible.

After the last lignite mine in the Weißbachtal, the Franz shaft near Görsdorf, was closed in the 1930s, there was no longer any need to maintain the Weißbachgraben. After the Second World War, the discharge of the Weißbachwasser was left to its own devices, so that the Weißbach soon emerged from its overgrown old bed and seeps into the swampy quarry of the Görsdorf lignite mines. The lower section of the Weißbachgraben was piped in the second half of the 20th century and built over with a path.

swell

• Information sheet on the Olbersdorf - Hartau - Hrádek n. N. opencast mining trail, 1999

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Millstone quarries on the Zigeunerberg and Heideberg ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Meilenblatt 387 Harthau, 1805
4. ↑ Zittauer Stadtanzeiger No. 188/2008 ( Memento of the original dated January 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 12 
5. ↑ Zittauer Stadtanzeiger No. 210/2009 ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 15 
6. ↑ measuring table sheet 107: Zittau (south), 1933