Kleinhchener water
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Kleinhchener water Satkula |
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 The mouth of the Satkula (from above) into the monastery water |
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| Water code | DE : 538126 | |
| location | Bautzen district , Saxony , Germany | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Monastery water → Black Elster → Elbe → North Sea | |
| origin | for small hens 51 ° 12 ′ 9 ″ N , 14 ° 13 ′ 24 ″ E |
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| Source height | 215 m above sea level NN | |
| muzzle | between Caseritz and Räckelwitz in Klosterwasser Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '9 " N , 14 ° 13' 46" E 51 ° 15 '9 " N , 14 ° 13' 46" E |
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| Mouth height | 153 m above sea level NN | |
| Height difference | 62 m
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| Right tributaries | Pannewitz water | |
| Communities | Burkau , Panschwitz-Kuckau , Crostwitz | |
The Kleinhähnchener Wasser , also called Satkula , is a small stream in Upper Lusatia that rises near Kleinhänchen and crosses Lehndorf on its way north . In the further course it limits the Kopschiner castle complex on three sides, flows through Crostwitz and flows into the monastery water near Räckelwitz .
The Satkula by Jurij Brězan
The Sorbian writer Jurij Brězan set the Satkula, which for the most part flows through the Sorbian settlement area, a literary monument. In his novel Krabat or The Metamorphosis of the World , published in 1976, there is the following quote, in which the brook serves as a metaphor for the Sorbian people:
“Exactly in the center of our continent - as many in this country mistakenly believe, including the world - the source of the Satkula, a stream that flows through seven villages and then meets the river that swallows it. Like the atlases, the sea does not know the brook either, but it would be a different sea if it did not also absorb the water of the Satkula. "
In his work Image of the Father , too , the brook repeatedly appears as the epitome of home and place of romantic love. Based on these symbols, the Sorbian youth magazine Radio Satkula of the MDR is named.
In Brězan's story, Brother Baum and Sister Lerche , on the other hand, the writer compares the fish-rich brook of his childhood with that "cloudy, sometimes very cloudy water-like vessel in which nothing lives", which his grandson knows as Satkula, and plays thereby on the pollution of the brook intensive agriculture and, more generally, the destruction of the environment by humans.
