Lock (river)

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Lock in Schönbrunn

Lock in Schönbrunn

Data
Water code DE : 4116
location Thuringia , Germany
River system Weser
Drain over Werra  → Weser  → North Sea
source the evil lock at Gr. Dreiherrnstein
50 ° 36 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 37 ″  E
Source height 795  m above sea level NN
muzzle At Veßra monastery in the Werra coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 27 ″  N , 10 ° 38 ′ 6 ″  E 50 ° 29 ′ 27 ″  N , 10 ° 38 ′ 6 ″  E
Mouth height 333  m above sea level NN
Height difference 462 m
Bottom slope 14 ‰
length 34.2 km
Catchment area 282.9 km²
Discharge at the Rappelsdorf
A Eo gauge : 256 km²
Location: 9 km above the mouth 		NNQ (12/27/1962)
MNQ 1951/2014
MQ 1951/2014
Mq 1951/2014
 MHQ 1951/2014
HHQ (04/20/1970) 		170 l / s
787 l / s
4.46 m³ / s
17.4 l / (s km²)
 35.1 m³ / s
82.4 m³ / s
Left tributaries Gabel (3.9 km), Tanne (6.8 km), Neubrunn (6.2 km), Gritzbach (2.5 km), Biber (11.9 km), Wiedersbach (4.1 km)
Right tributaries Trenkbach (3.5 km), Eselsbach (0.9 km), Großer Arlesbach (2.4 km), Hühnerbach (2.7 km), Langer Bach (3.3 km), Ansbach (4.8 km), Nahe (17.8 km), Bach von Gethles (3.4 km), Roßbach (4.9 km)
Reservoirs flowed through Dam Schönbrunn , Dam Ratscher
Small towns Schleusingen
Communities Sluice ground , Veßra monastery
Residents in the catchment area approx. 12,000

The lock is a 34 kilometer long river in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia . It rises at the Großer Dreiherrnstein near Frauenwald and flows into the Werra at Veßra Abbey .

course

The lock is made up of several source streams on the southwest slope of the Großer Dreiherrenstein, the main source load is called the Böse Schleuse. The lock initially flows southwards and feeds the Schönbrunn dam on the upper reaches . Two kilometers south of the dam, it reaches the town of Schönbrunn ( Schleusegrund municipality ) then crosses the Schleusegrund municipality in a south-westerly direction and the eastern districts of the small town of Schleusingen . From the area boundary of the core town of Schleusingen, it flows through the Ratscher dam . The lock then flows in a west-northwest direction towards the city of Schleusingen, which is named after it, and passes its settlement area on the southern edge. After a further eight kilometers, first west-southwest, then west, the river flows into the Werra at Veßra monastery .

Tributaries

The river system of the (upper) lock divides the south-western slope of the south-eastern Thuringian Forest and - in the eastern part - also the north-western Thuringian slate mountains in the form of a fan that converges before Schleusingen . The low mountain ranges are clearly divided into individual mountain ridges by the river arms. The longest of the stretches of water have only a little differentiated flow path, that of the Böse Schleuse is the longest.

The following list, which shows the fan clockwise from west to east, also names tributaries of a higher order; the direction arrow under the small compass rose in the second column indicates the approximate overall direction for the tributaries that merge slightly before and in Schleusingen. The sorting of this table according to the river code number (DGKZ) brings the water bodies recursively into the order in which they flow to their respective direct receiving waters.

Surname Wind rose small.svg L / R Receiving waters Length
[km] 		Strand length [
km] 		Catchment
own
[km²] 		Catchment
OL outfall
[km²] 		Mouth height
[m. ü. NN] 		Mündungsort
at 		DGKZ
alder → R. Near 14.2 27.3 >0 10.0 000.0 374 Schleusingen 41168-6
Breitenbach → L. alder 09.1 20.3 >0 10.0 000.0 384 St. Kilian 411686-8
Vesser → L. Breitenbach 10.5 26.6 >0 10.0 000.0 424 Breitenbach 4116868-4
Near → R. lock 21.5 31.4 0123.0 124.9 363 Schleusingen 4116-8
Trenkbach R. lock 03.5 33.6 <0 10.0 000.0 550 just above Talsp. Sch. 4116-112
lock → L. Werra 34.2 34.2 0282.9 273.0 333 Veßra Monastery 41-16
fork L. lock 03.9 33.0 <0 10.0 000.0 542 Schönbrunn dam 4116-12
fir L. lock 06.8 33.1 >0 10.0 000.0 542 Schönbrunn dam 4116-152
Neubrunn → L. lock 06.2 29.7 <016.1 034.6 453 Schleusegrund - Schönbrunn 4116-2
beaver → L. lock 11.9 31.8 <026.4 060.3 415 Schleusegrund - Engenau 4116-4
Wiedersbach → L. lock 04.1 19.0 <014.9 101.0 390 Ratscher dam 4116-6

The catchment area of ​​Trenkbach and Gabel is less than 10 km², all other creeks listed are above it.

Main flow issue

In the water system of the lock, the inflow is often no less important than the upper course up to it. The consistent structure of the water system according to hydrological criteria therefore deviates considerably from the splitting up of the strands according to traditional naming. All of the discharge volumes mentioned below mean the mean discharge (MQ):

  • When it converges with the Werra, the lock drains a somewhat larger catchment area than the Werra up to there.
  • The lock is even more dominant there measured at the discharge:
    While the Werra at the Ebenhards gauge (220.8 km² catchment area) has an average of only 2.51 m³ / s of water - which, extrapolated to the area up to the lock mouth, 3 , 1 m³ / s would result, in real terms it is certainly less - the lock at the Rappelsdorf gauge (9 km above the mouth, 256 km²) already has 4.46 m³ / s.
    • Around half of this water volume is in turn contributed by the Nahe, which carries 2.20 m³ / s at the Schleusingen gauge (114 km², 1 km above the estuary) and also draws level with the lock above its own estuary in the catchment area.
      • The Nahe roughly doubles its water flow through the mouth of the alder.
        • The alder doubles its water flow further above through the mouth of the Breitenbach.
          • On the Breitenbach branch, the Breitenbach-Oberlauf up to the tributary Vesser and the Vesser are about equally large brooks.

Landscape structure

The valleys of the lock tributaries divide the Thuringian Forest and Slate Mountains into the following ridges (from northwest to southeast):

The border between the Thuringian Forest and the Thuringian Slate Mountains runs roughly across the Middle Schleusetal (which is already part of the Slate Mountains), extended upstream by the Neubrunntal.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e river lengths according to geopaths (kmz, 62 kB)
  2. ↑ a b c Thuringian State Agency for the Environment (ed.): Area and waterway key figures. (Directory and map). Jena 1998.
  3. ↑ a b German Hydrological Yearbook Weser-Ems 2014. Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation, p. 109, accessed on October 4, 2017 (PDF, German, 8805 kB).
  4. ↑ Inflow side: L for inflow from the left, R for inflow from the right.
  5. ↑ The "strand length" adds up to the respective length of all the drainage section lengths to be passed up to the mouth of the lock.
  6. ↑ In order to compare the receiving water upper course and tributary, the catchment area of ​​the receiving water up to the tributary inlet is listed here.
  7. ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  8. ↑ For better sortability, hyphens have been added after the receiving water code number.
  9. ^ Deutsches Gewässerkundliches Jahrbuch Weser-Ems 2014. Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation, p. 101, accessed on October 4, 2017 (PDF, German, 8805 kB).
  10. ↑ Level index of the Thuringia flood news center ( information )
  11. ↑ Hydological data from the Schleusingen gauge  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - PDF, 330 kB@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www2.tlug-jena.de