Rettbach (red)

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Rettbach
Rettbachgraben
The spring with a framed spring pot (overflow towards the south)

The spring with a framed spring pot (overflow towards the south)

Data
location Thuringia , Germany
River system Elbe
Drain over Red  → Apfelstädt  → Gera  → Unstrut  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source Siebgen source
50 ° 56 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 27 ″  E
Source height 296.7  m above sea level NN
muzzle at Cobstädt in the red coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 59 ″  E 50 ° 55 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 59 ″  E
Mouth height 271.5  m above sea level NN
Height difference 25.2 m
Bottom slope 4.2 ‰
length 6 km
Communities Nesse-Apfelstädt, three of a kind
Residents in the catchment area 883

The Rettbach is a tributary of the Rot , a tributary of the Apfelstädt in Thuringia . Together with the red it forms the surface water body Roth . According to § 3 of the Thuringian Water Act, the water body has the status of a water body of the second order and is therefore the maintenance burden of the communities through which the water flows.

Siebgen source

The Siebgen spring is located northeast of the village of Kleinrettbach . The Rettbach rises here. The source is surrounded by a wall with a fence in a square with an edge length of approx. 1.6 m. The water level of the spring water is about 1 m deep. The spring never ran dry. When there was severe drought and drought in the 1880s, the residents of the surrounding towns came here to fetch water.

course

Today the stream flows past the southern edge of Kleinrettbach, then continues through Großrettbach and Cobstädt . There it flows into the Rot , which comes from Siebleben and Tüttleben and flows into the Apfelstädt in nearby Wandersleben .

additional

The Rettbach water was previously used to brew beer in Kleinrettbach . The stream used to flow through the sheep wash house and the flax rotting . In 1911 Kleinrettbach was one of the first villages to have a water pipe.

Individual evidence

  1. official topographic maps, DTK25-V combination in color
  2. Thuringian state report on management plans and programs of measures according to the EU Water Framework Directive, published by TMLFUN 2009, Appendix 6
  3. Thuringian Water Act (ThürWG) in the version of the announcement of August 18, 2009, GVBl. Thuringia page 648
  4. ↑ Information board at the source

Web links

Commons : Rettbach  - collection of images, videos and audio files