Pitzschebach

Pitzschebach Pitzsche
The Pitzschebach in the Zellwald
Data
Water code	DE : 54234
location	Saxony
River system	Elbe
Drain over	Freiberger Mulde  → Mulde  → Elbe  → North Sea
source	north of Großvoigtsberg in the Zellwald 51 ° 0 ′ 21 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 50 ″  E
Source height	approx.  348  m above sea level NHN
muzzle	at the Altzella monastery in the Freiberger Mulde Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 45 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 44 ″  E 51 ° 3 ′ 45 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 44 ″  E
Mouth height	199  m above sea level NHN
Height difference	approx. 149 m
Bottom slope	approx. 14 ‰
length	10.5 km

The Pitzschebach (also: the Pitzsche ) is a left tributary to the Freiberg Mulde in Saxony . Most of it flows through the Zellwald .

course

The Pitzschebach rises north of Großvoigtsberg am Erlicht (357.6 m) in the southern part of the Zellwald. The stream flows through the Zellwald in a northerly direction, with the Zellwaldbahn following its course on the left. South-east of the Zellwald stop, the Pitzschebach flows between the confluences of the Eselsbach and the Barthelsbach over the Mönchswiese; where in the 12th century the Benedictine old cell was located on the left side of the stream . To the north of it at Siebenlehn the federal highway 4 bridges the Pitzschebachtal. At the bend in the brook near the Dreierhäuser the Waldbach flows to the left; from the middle of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century the Pitzschebach was dammed on this section in the mine pond. Below the pond dam is the mouth of the Adolph-Stolln to the right of the stream. On its middle course through the northern Zellwald, the Pitzschebach has dug a deep valley. The stream leaves the Zellwald east of Rosental. On its lower course, the stream first flows past the Waldgrabengut. After that, the Pitzschebach on the western outskirts of Nossen forms the natural border with the Altzella village ; the valley floor used to be in the valley floor. Shortly before its confluence, the stream is bridged by the Zellwaldbahn and the Borsdorf – Coswig railway. After 10.5 kilometers, the Pitzschebach flows into the Freiberg Mulde at the foot of the Pfarrberg (250.9 m) at the Altzella monastery .

Tributaries

• Gutebach (r)
• Eselsbach (l)
• Barthelsbächel (r)
• Old ditch (l)
• Waldbach (l)
• Adolph Stollnwasser (r)
• Lämmergraben (r)
• Waldgraben (r)

history

The Benedictine old cell abbey, founded around 1141 in the middle Pitzschebach valley , did not exist for 30 years. In 1170, with the Cistercian monastery Altzella at the mouth of the stream in the Mulde, a new monastery was founded in the forest area. The preserved dams show that the Altzella monastery on the Pitzschebach operated intensive fishing. In addition, ravines show that several roads lead from the valley to the ridge between Pitzschebach and Mulde and probably on to Freiberg . After the abolition of the Altzella monastery in 1540, the monastic property in the Pitzschebachtal passed to the lord of the Electorate of Saxony.

In the past, various ore mines were operated in the Pitzschebachtal, such as Black Cat Erbstolln, Johannes Erbstolln, Zella Erbstolln and Gesegnete Zeche, in the side valley of the forest trench near Nossen the Preciosa Erbstolln and the Schiller Erbstolln. Their operation was usually short-lived.

Adolph Stolln's mouth hole

To bring about impact water for the artifacts on the blessing of God's Erbstolln near Gersdorf , the Rosenthaler Rösche was driven from Rosental from 1788 to introduce water from the Pitzschebach into the Marienbach and from Marbach via further florets and artificial ditches to the lower cancer pond. In 1803, the drive of the Adolph Stolln began, an attachment from the Blessing of God Erbstolln. The water supply tunnel with three light holes driven from the Pitzschebach valley to the southeast to the Bruno Schacht near Siebenlehn supplied water from the Romanus Erbstolln to the Gersdorf mine water supply. The Adolph Stolln was completed in 1817 and the entire Gersdorfer mine water supply was completed the following year. The inadequate amount of impact water after the expansion of the mine operation on the blessing of God's Erbstolln led to the joint drive of the Adolph Stolln in 1837 with Romanus Erbstolln near Siebenlehn, in order to supply both pits with water from the depths of the Hilfe Gottes Stolln near Obergruna . In 1843 the Pitzschebach was dammed above the mouth of Adolph Stolln with a seven meter high dam to form a mine pond. In 1864 the connection between the Adolph Stolln and the Grüner Cypressenbaum Tageschacht near Obergruna was established, thus completing the 2699.7 Lachter long tunnel. After the cessation of operations in 1885, the roses and artificial trenches were left to their own devices and the mine pond on the Pitzschebach, which was no longer needed, was dug up.

Between 1872 and 1873 the Zellwaldbahn was built along the Pitzschebach valley; The Zellwald stop was built at the Zellwald steam sawmill in 1938. Between 1934 and 1938 the bridge of the Reichsautobahn 4 over the Pitzschebach was built not far from the stop.

Below the road bridge between Nossen and Zella, the Talbad was built in the Pitzschebachtal at the end of the 19th century. During the Second World War, in November 1944, a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp assigned to SS Command B5 in Lobositz was set up between the Talbad and Klostermühle . Up to 500 prisoners were housed in the barracks camp built by the prisoners in the Pitzschebachtal between the Talbad and the Pfarrberg, who manufactured weapon sleeves in the monastery mill for the Warsitz cover company "Nowa" or in Roßwein in the Ebro-Werk foundry for the Ernst- Broer works had to work. Over a hundred of the approximately 650 prisoners died. The subcamp was evacuated on April 14, 1945 and the barracks set on fire.

The water from the Pitzsche was used to obtain drinking water from Nossen, especially from the ox pond in the Zellwald. In the course of the expansion of the A4 motorway, this was dismantled at the end of the 1990s and the ox pond was renatured. and the drinking water protection zone Nossen-Zellwald-Ochsenteich canceled

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann Conrad Knauth: The old famous Stiffts-Closters and Landes-Fürstlichen Conditorii Alten-Zella on the Freybergische Mulda… Volume 1 . Winckler, 1721, p. 21 ( Preview in Google Book Search).
2. ↑ Summary Management Plan Environment in Saxony 188 "Pitzschebachtal" Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology Dresden from October 2008
3. ↑ Diagram: The mines around Nossen in the Freiberg Nordrevier ( memento of the original from February 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB)  
4. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 4: Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52964-X , pp. 210-213.
5. ↑ Renaturation of the ox pond in the Zellwald . In: Federal Ministry of Transport, DEGES (Hrsg.): Documentation: Extension and new construction of the A 4 between AK Chemnitz and AD Dresden-Nord . October 2003, p. 54 ( deges.de [PDF; 4.2 MB ; accessed on March 1, 2017]).
6. ↑ Ordinance of the district of Meißen to abolish the drinking water protection zone Nossen-Zellwald-Ochsenteich-Seepage-Tiefbrunnen, Burkhardswalde-Munzig-Schäferei, Burkhardswalde-Munzig-Unterdorf, Burkhardswalde-Munzig-Niedermunzig from January 10, 1996