Pulverbach (Selke)

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Powder Bach
Pulverbach after the confluence of the spring arms

Pulverbach after the confluence of the spring arms

Data
River system Elbe
Drain over Selke  → Bode  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source 500 meters southwest of Harzgerode
51 ° 37 ′ 52 ″  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 24 ″  E
Source height approx.  410  m
muzzle Silberhütte (upper bath wood) Coordinates: 51 ° 37 '57 "  N , 11 ° 5' 49"  E 51 ° 37 '57 "  N , 11 ° 5' 49"  E
Mouth height about  369  m
Height difference approx. 41 m
Bottom slope approx. 16 ‰
length about 2.6 km about
Small towns Harzgerode
Communities Silver hut

The Pulverbach is a brook in the Lower Harz in Saxony-Anhalt . It is a right tributary of the Selke . The flow ordinal number of this brook is 6.

course

The Pulverbach rises about 500 meters southwest of the urban area of Harzgerode near Stolberger Straße, at the foot of Rieselberg and Lausehügel and flows into the Selke on the right at river kilometer 50.6.

After 485 meters, the first source arm joins a second, 369 meter long, 425 meters southwest of the longer source arm, the second source arm. The stream then flows through the Pulvergrund , where after a further 885 meters there is a left, apparently nameless, tributary. Here the Pulverbach reaches Silberhütte Siedlung , before flowing into the Selke after a total of about 2.6 km of creek on the right, near the Silberhütte district road, without leaving the municipality of Silberhütte again. The mouth is about 369 meters above sea level, at the southern end of the upper bath wood . In contrast to almost all of the Lower Harz mountain streams, the Pulverbach is not dammed in reservoirs throughout the entire course.

Tributaries

After about 93 meters of the stream, the longer arm of the spring has an inflow on the left that is only 39 meters long. This rises about 107 meters south-southwest at a slightly lower altitude. At the beginning of Silberhütte Siedlung, also on the left, a creek about 450 meters long flows into the Pulverbach at an altitude of about 390 meters, near the Pappelweg. Both tributaries are apparently nameless.

etymology

The name is a compound with -bach as an appellative . The determiner is derived from the Middle High German bulver or powder . Originally this means dust, it was also used for gunpowder from the 15th century . It is therefore believed that there was a powder factory on the creek. There is evidence of a powder mill that was built in 1790 to supply mines and hunters - today's pyrotechnics Silberhütte .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Saxony-Anhalt viewer, official topographical map, TK 1:25 000 color
  2. ^ City map service
  3. ↑ The influence of the mining history in the Eastern Harz on the heavy metal depth gradients in historical sediments and the fluvial heavy metal dispersion in the catchment areas of Bode and Selke in the Harz. Dissertation at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Lorenz Dobler ( PDF online )
  4. ↑ Elfriede Ulbricht: The river basin of the Thuringian Saale . 1st edition. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1957.
  5. ↑ Silberhütte