Schweina (Werra)
| Schweina | ||
 Flood plain in the upper Schweinagrund below the Windsberg. |
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| Data | ||
| location | Thuringia , Germany | |
| River system | Weser | |
| Drain over | Werra → Weser → North Sea | |
| source | Schaumborn on Rennsteig 50 ° 52 ′ 33 ″ N , 10 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E |
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| Source height | 625.2 m above sea level NN | |
| muzzle |
Werra near Barchfeld Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 3 ″ N , 10 ° 17 ′ 35 ″ E 50 ° 48 ′ 3 ″ N , 10 ° 17 ′ 35 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | approx. 240 m above sea level NN | |
| Height difference | approx. 385.2 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 31 ‰ | |
| length | 12.3 km | |
| Catchment area | > 10 km² | |
| Left tributaries | Goldborn (2.5 km), Luisenbach (2.3 km; Luisenthaler waterfall ) | |
| Right tributaries | Silbergrund (3.6 km) | |
The Schweina is a 12 km long, right (eastern) tributary of the Werra in the southwest of the Thuringian Forest .
A left tributary of the Schweina creates the Luisenthaler waterfall in the Luisental .
course
The Schweina rises in two source brooks that flank the 717 m high birch heather immediately southwest of the Rennsteig from the northwest and southeast. The source of the north-western, nominal source stream lies on the saddle of the Birkenheide to the 646 m high Höllkopf , located directly on the Rennsteig, in the Ruhlas district , but the stream soon reaches the municipality of Schweinas , where the left source stream Goldborn flows into. The Schweina flows further south through the Schweinaer Grund . The most important right tributary Silbergrund flows at the interface with the red sandstone foreland, the source of which is located on the southern slope of the 649 m high Kissel near the forester's house of the same name.
The stream finally reaches the core town of Schweinas, in the north of which and still at the seam the Luisenbach, coming from the Luisenthal waterfall , flows from the left.
It is followed by the still commercially used Höhlenbach, once a source of energy for the ironworks and mills in the village, it now serves a fish farmer. After passing the Marienthal district , the river leaves the municipality and flows into the Werra from the right at Barchfeld .
Surname
According to local tradition, the name of the water goes back to a Suhl site of wild boars . The place name Schweina has the same reference.
Economic history
Up until the beginning of the 1990s, the creek was used above the Schweina locality for the drinking water supply and from the Schweina locality since the Middle Ages as mill water, later as a power source for factories. There was a paper mill in Marienthal . A hydropower plant in Barchfeld is still powered by the Schweina today.
Impressions
Mühlgraben which flows into the southern village of Schweinas
The exit of the cave stream in OT Glücksbrunn
Fish farm on the Höhlenbach
High water level at the Marienthaler Schlösschen
Others
The brook has been intensively researched for years as part of environmental monitoring .
literature
- Klaus Schmidt (Red.): Running waters in the Wartburg district. Current situation and sustainable development. Published by the Lower Nature Conservation Authority and the Lower Water Authority of the Wartburg district . Wehry-Druck (Untermaßfeld), Bad Salzungen 2002, p. 52 ( nature conservation in Wartburgkreis 11, ZDB -ID 2288744-1 ).
