Schwefelbach (Jugelbach)

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Schwefelbach
Schwefelbach at the mouth in the Lehmergrund

Schwefelbach at the mouth in the Lehmergrund

Data
Water code DE : 5412224
location Saxony , Germany
River system Elbe
Drain over Jugelbach  → Breitenbach  → Schwarzwasser  → Zwickauer Mulde  → Mulde  → Elbe  → North Sea
source in the Jugelwald southwest of Johanngeorgenstadt
50 ° 25 ′ 34 ″  N , 12 ° 41 ′ 10 ″  E
Source height about  893  m
muzzle below the Gabe Gottes housing estate (Johanngeorgenstadt) in Jugelbach Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 29 ″  N , 12 ° 42 ′ 35 ″  E 50 ° 25 ′ 29 ″  N , 12 ° 42 ′ 35 ″  E
Mouth height about  770  m
Height difference about 123 m
Bottom slope about 51 ‰
length about 2.4 km
Catchment area 2.3 km²

The Schwefelbach , historically also Schwefelbächel or Schwarze Seye , is an approximately 2.4 km long left tributary of the Jugelbach in Johanngeorgenstadt in the Saxon Ore Mountains .

Surname

The brook owes its name to a sulfur hut , which was built in 1624 by Balthasar Leonhard auf dem Glück with joy tunnels and God's help . a. " Copper water " was produced. However, the hut no longer existed as early as 1723.

In a cartographic representation of the Schwarzenberg district office from 1727, today's Jugelbach is also referred to as the Schwefelbach before it flows into the Breitenbach.

course

The Schwefelbach rises in the Archangel Mountains in the crane lake area . Today it feeds the Johanngeorgenstadt open-air pool, flows in the Roman Empire forest area below the Erzgebirgsschanze, past the Lehmergrund and flows into the Jugelbach. Not far from the confluence of the Schwefelbach in the Jugelbach was the royal board mill until the 19th century .

natural reserve

The upper course is part of the Natura 2000 area of ​​European importance low mountain range near Johanngeorgenstadt .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Johann Christian Engelschall : Description of the exiles and mountain town JohannGeorgenStadt . Lanckisch and Kircheisen, Leipzig 1723, p. 302 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Carl Schiffner , Werner Gräbner (arrangement): Old huts and hammers in Saxony . In: Freiberg research books . D 14. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 209 .
  3. ↑ measuring table sheet 5542: Johanngeorgenstadt, 1937