Selbbach

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Selbbach
officially: Selb
Czech: Rači potok
Selbbach in the Pfaffenleithe

Selbbach in the Pfaffenleithe

Data
Water code DE : 532116
location Fichtel Mountains

Czech Republic

Germany

River system Elbe
Drain over Eger  → Elbe  → North Sea
source “Selber Brünnerl” near Aš ( Karlovy Vary Region , Czech Republic )
50 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 10 ′ 36 ″  E
Source height approx.  650  m
muzzle between Schwarzenhammer and Hendelhammer ( Thierstein municipality ) from the left into the upper Eger Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 17 ″  N , 12 ° 5 ′ 27 ″  E 50 ° 8 ′ 17 ″  N , 12 ° 5 ′ 27 ″  E
Mouth height 501  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 149 m
Bottom slope approx. 8.3 ‰
length 18 km
Catchment area 58.28 km²

The Selbbach (Czech Račí brook ) is a left side of the river stream Eger in Fichtelgebirge , almost completely in the city of Selb in the northeast Bavarian district Wunsiedel runs. In official maps the flowing water is called "Selb", in parlance "Selbbach" and in dialect "Söll" or "Söllbooch". The Selb gave the city of Selb its name.

Surname

The brook name appeared around 1360 as "Same". Name interpretations speak of "dark-colored Ache that comes from a moorland."

geography

Source and upper course

The spring version called “Selber Brünnerl” is located at the western end of the city of Aš in the Eger district in the Karlovy Vary region on the territory of the Czech Republic between the Selberberg and the Hohe Rain at about 650  m above sea level. NHN . The stream, which initially runs approximately to the south-southeast, is already less than 300 meters east of the village of Wildenau and (with one interruption) not quite a kilometer and a half from the border stream to the city of Selb. To the west of the Selber hamlet of Neuenbrand, it takes the Nesselbach (formerly Asserbach) from the left from the Czech Republic and, to the south-west of this, opposite a pond on a short dividing course, the Alting brook .

course

There the Selbbach swings to the southwest, which leads it past the Geyermühle and the Krippnermühle and then through other settlement groups in the Selber village of Mühlbach . Between the hamlets of Schatzbach right and Laubbühl mainly left, it turns around 643  m above sea level. NHN high, wooded mountain Laubbühl on the southern course. After the summer mill, it turns in a long loop that stretches to the east, in the course of which the Längenau stream joins from the northeast, from the village of Längenau, which gives it its name , to a roughly western course. Before the village of Stopfersfurth on the left bank, it is reinforced on its side by the Roßbach, which drains a long chain of ponds.

After the Ludwigsmühle that follows, it crosses the settlement area of ​​the city of Selb and takes in the lower reaches of the Erkersreutherbach and Engelbach near the city center, which, like the following Vielitzer Graben or Schafbach, flows into the right. Below the settlement boundary of the central city, another brook flows from the same side and also verolted opposite the sewage treatment plant, then open and finally from the village of Unterweißbach on the right bank, its most important tributary, the Bernsteinbach, which is also called Weißenbach.

Below the Selbbach, accompanied by the outside, enters a wide forest area, in which the border of the market town of Thierstein follows the brook for less than a kilometer south . Finally the Selbbach flows out at 501  m above sea level. NHN from the left into the upper Eger, moving eastwards between the Thiersteiner villages Schwarzenhammer and Hendelhammer .

The Selbbach, which meanders over long sections, is 18 km long and flows out about 149 meters below its origin. Its mean bottom slope is around 8.3 ‰.

Catchment area

The Selbbach drains about 58.3 km² of the Fichtelgebirge, clearly predominantly from its Bavarian part, altogether about southwest to the Eger. The area is quite heavily populated in the central part by the town of Selb with its districts, to the east and west more and more forest mixes into the corridor, which borders on closed forests in the east, south and northwest. The greatest heights - the summit of Steinhöhe on the northwest corner above the upper Bernsteinbach; Summit of Skřivánči vrch on the northeast corner above Aš - reach about 736  m above sea level. NHN .

In the north it borders the catchment area of ​​the Perlenbach , which drains over the Schwesnitz to the Saale ; in the east that of the Slatinný potok (German, on the upper reaches: trout stream), which feeds the Eger further down; in the south first the Libský potok (German: Großbach), which is closer, and then the Lausenbach , which flows into it just a little further down the Selbbach; The Steinselb flows a little upstream of the Selbbach and drains the area beyond the western watershed.

Source version

The source version of the Selber Brünnerl is due to the secondary school Selb, the Fichtelgebirgsverein, local association Selb and some sponsors, the inauguration took place on June 27, 1991.

Economic use

The water of the Selb and its tributaries once drove 19 mills.

Tourist use

In the valley of the Selbbach, a section of the bridge cycle route Bavaria – Bohemia runs between Schwarzenhammer and Selb .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  2. ↑ a b Complete table of the Bavarian water directory of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (XLS, 10.3 MB)

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