Schorte
| Schorte | ||
 In the Schortetal |
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| Data | ||
| location | Ilm district , Thuringia , Germany | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Ilm → Saale → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source | at Stützerbach 50 ° 38 ′ 14 ″ N , 10 ° 54 ′ 26 ″ O |
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| Source height | 783 m above sea level NHN | |
| muzzle | in Ilmenau in the Ilm Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 20 ″ N , 10 ° 56 ′ 22 ″ E 50 ° 40 ′ 20 ″ N , 10 ° 56 ′ 22 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 472 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | 311 m | |
| Bottom slope | 36 ‰ | |
| length | 8.6 km | |
| Flowing lakes | Knöpfelstaler pond | |
| Medium-sized cities | Ilmenau | |
 The Knöpfelstaler pond |
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The Schorte is a tributary of the Ilm in Thuringia .
course
The Schorte rises on the eastern slope of the horse mountain near Stützerbach . It runs through the Schortetal , in the upper part of which it forms the Knöpfelstaler pond , a reservoir for rafting wood created in the 17th century , and flows into the Ilm after 8.56 km at Grenzhammer , a district of Ilmenau .
additional
The uppermost part of the Schortetal is known as the Finsteres Loch and became famous through Goethe's poem Ilmenau .
In the further course downstream there were many mine tunnels for the extraction of fluorspar and manganese . The "Volle Rose" mine was closed in 1991. Today it is set up as a show mine and open to visitors. The late-leading layers of the horse mountain have been dismantled since 2005 due to the sharp rise in world market prices. The mining takes place from the direction of Gehren in the Schobsetal .
Origin of name
The first documentary mention dates back to 1503, then as Schortte . The name then changed to Schorte via Schorttenwasser (1527), Große Schorte (1534) and Schörten (1587). The name is derived from the Germanic skorta- (cut off), from which the English short developed. In the absence of early evidence, it is unclear whether there is a connection with -aha .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elfriede Ulbricht: The river basin of the Thuringian Saale. A name-based investigation (= German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history. No. 2, ISSN 0070-3893 ). Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1957, (at the same time: Leipzig, University, dissertation, 1954).