Selbitz (river)
The Selbitz is a 36.6 km long orographic left tributary of the Saale in the eastern Franconian Forest in the two Free States of Bavaria and Thuringia . It is considered a third-order body of water.
The origin of the name Selbitz is not clear, but is probably of Slavic origin, possibly derived from Zilovica (root: žila or žyla, cf. Sorbian žiła ) and would therefore mean something like vein . The derivation of Zelvica (root želwja or želva), which means turtle, also seems possible . This occurs as an appellative for West Slavic place and field names.
geography
The Selbitz rises at about 650 meters above sea level from a pond northwest of the Wüstenselbitz district of Helmbrechts , flows around Helmbrechts first in an easterly direction, then in a northerly direction. In the further course it touches the cities of Schauenstein , Selbitz and Naila , before flowing through the Höllental, cut up to 170 meters deep into the diabase rock , between Hölle and Blechschmidtenhammer .
In the village of Hölle (district of Naila) there is a mineral spring drilled at a depth of 262 meters ( Höllensprudel ) directly on the left bank of the Selbitz . The Selbitz is dammed in the Höllental. A large part of their water is diverted to operate a power plant via a pipeline. At the power station on the river bank, the water flows back into the river. Between the confluence of the Thuringian Muschwitz at the exit of the Höllental valley and its own confluence with the Saale near Blankenstein , the Selbitz forms the border between Bavaria and Thuringia for about two kilometers , the footbridge between the Bavarian hamlet Untereichenstein and Blankenstein is the end point of the Thuringian Rennsteig .
On its 36.6 kilometer long path, the Selbitz overcomes a height difference of 236 meters, which corresponds to an average bed gradient of 6.4 ‰.
Theoretically, the level of the Selbitz can rise at almost any point, as it is mostly surrounded by meadows and in the Naila urban area between the train station and the bridge at the football field flows in a natural, but rearranged valley that allows the river to flow in or out of thaw Storms or heavy showers swell to more than twice the width. From December 2nd to 4th, 2007 this could be observed again. In this area of the river it is bordered on the left and right by strips of grass that are used as pasture for sheep in the snowless seasons .
Source pond of the Selbitz
Railway bridge over the Selbitz near Naila
Weir in the Selbitz at Naila train station
View into Höllental from the viewpoint King David , on the horizon the Döbraberg
literature
- Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Selbitz . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 5 : S-U . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1802, DNB 790364328 , OCLC 833753112 , Sp. 283 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Complete table of the Bavarian water directory of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (XLS, 10.3 MB)
- ^ German Hydrological Yearbook Elbe Region, Part I 2014. (PDF) State Office for Flood Protection and Water Management Saxony-Anhalt, p. 161 , accessed on November 3, 2018 (from: lhw.sachsen-anhalt.de).
- ↑ Elfriede Ulbricht: The river basin of the Thuringian Saale . 1st edition. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1957.