Pulsnitz (river)
| Pulsnitz | ||
 Course of the Pulsnitz from the source to the mouth |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | EN : 5382 | |
| location | Brandenburg , Saxony , Germany | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Black Elster → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source | In a house well in Ohorn 51 ° 10 ′ 41 ″ N , 14 ° 3 ′ 23 ″ E |
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| Source height | 360 m above sea level NN | |
| muzzle | At Elsterwerda in the Black Elster Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '10 " N , 13 ° 30' 33" E 51 ° 27 '10 " N , 13 ° 30' 33" E |
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| Mouth height | 89 m above sea level NN | |
| Height difference | 271 m | |
| Bottom slope | 4.5 ‰ | |
| length | 60 km | |
| Catchment area | 356 km² | |
| Discharge at the Ortrand A Eo gauge : 245 km² Location: 20.6 km above the mouth |
NNQ (Sep. 2, 2003) MNQ 1989–2014 MQ 1989–2014 Mq 1989–2014 MHQ 1989–2014 HHQ (September 28, 2010) |
60 l / s 358 l / s 1.52 m³ / s 6.2 l / (s km²) 9.65 m³ / s 35 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Kieperbach | |
| Right tributaries | Haselbach , Käbnitz , Otterbach | |
| Small towns | Pulsnitz , Königsbrück , Ortrand , Elsterwerda | |
 The Pulsnitz in Elsterwerda |
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The Pulsnitz is a left tributary of the Black Elster in Saxony and Brandenburg . It rises in Ohorn on the western slope of the Tanneberg and flows through the cities of Pulsnitz , Königsbrück , Ortrand and Elsterwerda .
The actual spring is located in the basement of a residential building, below which a pond catches the spring water. A plaque on the inlet pipe bears the inscription "Pulsnitzquelle VMI 1976". The Pulsnitz runs underground through the entire old town center of Ohorn and only comes back to light about 900 meters further south-west and about 50 meters lower at the edge of an arable land.
It then flows through the Königsbrücker Heide , where the Königsbrück military training area was located between 1906 and 1992 and the market town of Krakow on the Pulsnitz until 1938 . After passing the lowland area Schraden , which begins at Ortrand , it flows into the Schwarze Elster in the urban area of Elsterwerda . A few hundred meters before there is the connection to Elsterwerda-Grödel raft channel , an existing since the 18th century artificial waterway for at the same convenient location Grödel .
The original estuary, however, was located below the village of Tettau until the New Pulsnitzgraben was built in the 16th century . This course, known as Grenzpulsnitz , once formed the state border between the margraviate of Meißen and Upper Lusatia , which is also remembered by old field names. Several settlements were located on both sides of the river, with the part on the western bank regularly referred to as the Meissen side and the eastern part as the Upper Lusatian side or the Bohemian side .
The upper reaches and almost the entire Saxon valley of the Pulsnitz are under nature and landscape protection. The small river there is largely natural. The partial straightening of the Pulsnitz and its tributary, the Haselbach , increased the flow velocity and thus the sediment transport in the upper reaches. The rare river pearl mussels that were formerly located near Königsbrück silted up and died off. The heavy pollution of the Pulsnitz by sewage from households and the textile industry subsided after reunification due to the construction of municipal sewage treatment plants and the decline of East German industry.
The source in Ohorn
The Pulsnitz in Ortrand
The confluence with the Schwarze Elster in Elsterwerda
literature
- Hydrological manual. (PDF; 115 kB) Part 2 - Area Codes. Free State of Saxony - State Office for Environment and Geology, p. 8 , accessed on December 25, 2017 .
- Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): The Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 .
- Saxon land surveying: topographic map 1: 25000, sheets 4850, 4750, 4749, 4648 and 4547 . Ed .: Staatsbetrieb Geobasisinformation und Vermessung Sachsen ,. Dresden (1888-1941).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German Hydrological Yearbook Elbe Region, Part I 2014. (PDF) State Office for Flood Protection and Water Management Saxony-Anhalt, p. 127 , accessed on November 3, 2018 (from: lhw.sachsen-anhalt.de).