Wolschinka
The Wolschinka (also Erlenbach , Lower Sorbian Wólšynka ) and the Rainitza (also known as Reppister Bach , Lower Sorbian Rajnica , Rěpišćica ) were the most important right-hand tributaries in the river system of the Black Elster , around the historic Senftenberg in Niederlausitz , which at that time was located in an island location similar to the Spreewald .
Sources and course of the river
The source of the Wolschinka was probably somewhere between the devastated Hörlitz village and the garden city of Brieske - Marga . The course of the Wolschinka led through the village green of the suburb Jüttendorf and surrounded the western old town of Senftenberg. North of the city, at the level of today's Bahnhofstrasse, was the medieval city harbor, where the Rainitza, which rises between Reppist and Bückgen, not far from the Paradiesberg, and the Sornische Elster , coming from the east, converged and, with the further course, the eastern and southern part of the old town, as well as the mediaeval one Castle complex and later castle with castle park surrounded by water. The further course led north of the Buchwald village green towards Kleinkoschen . The confluence with the Hauptelster (Black Elster) is said to have been in Laugkfeld at the end of Grünstraße not far from the LAUBAG administration building.
With the lowering of the groundwater and drainage in the course of the emerging lignite mining at the end of the 19th century, these river arms largely disappeared or were diverted and canalized.
Web links
- Settlement mill Senftenberg - historical postcard view
- Senftenberg ditches and outflows from 1920 to 2004 - private website of Ehrfried Hentschel, Senftenberg
