Saar (Werra)

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 Saar 
The source of the Werra near Siegmundsburg

The source of the Werra near Siegmundsburg

Data
Water code EN : 4112
location Districts of Sonneberg and Hildburghausen , Thuringia
River system Weser
Drain over Werra  → Weser  → North Sea
source near Siegmundsburg on the northwest slope of the Dürren Fichte
50 ° 27 ′ 56 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 29 ″  E
Source height approx.  800  m 
muzzle in Schwarzenbrunn Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 48 ″  E 50 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 48 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  491  m 
Height difference approx. 309 m
Bottom slope approx. 48 ‰
length 6.5 km
Catchment area 12.8 km²
Small towns Ice field (Schirnrod and Schwarzenbrunn)

The Saar is the 6.5 km long orographic left source river of the Werra in the Thuringian Slate Mountains, southern Thuringia . It rises at an altitude of 800 m southwest of Siegmundsburg , on the northwest slope of the 861 m high Dürren Spruce in the Thuringian Slate Mountains , and leaves the district of Sonneberg after about 150 meters into the district of Hildburghausen . The federal road 281 follows its course west to south-west through the Saargrund , past the settlement of the same name, along the northern flank of the 866.9 m high Bleßberg .

Only one kilometer before its mouth does the brook leave the forest and reach Schirnrod , only to unite with the Werra in Schwarzenbrunn at 491 m above sea level. Up to this point, it has left a difference in altitude of at least 309 meters, which corresponds to a mean bottom slope of almost 5%.

To the dispute about the "real" source of the Werra

As early as 1648 the dispute between the Siegmundsburg and the Fehrenbachers was on record as to which Werra spring arm was the "right" one. After the Fehrenbach spring catchment was opened in 1897, the Siegmundsburger also took hold of the Saar spring in 1910 and called it the Werra spring .

In the meantime, the main issue of the river has been practically resolved in favor of the “Vorderen Werra”. The Saar continues to play the role of the “outermost” tributary of the Werra or the Weser in general, as it rises in the immediate vicinity of both the Rhine-Weser watershed and the Elbe-Weser watershed .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b About the dispute over the "real" source of the Werra ( Memento from August 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Map services ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2012 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. of the BfN @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfn.de
  3. ↑ a b Length measurement via geopath (kmz, 2 kB) results in 6.5 km.
  4. ^ Thuringian State Institute for the Environment (ed.): Area and waterway key figures (directory and map). Jena 1998. 26 pp.