Sormitz
| Sormitz | ||
 The catchment area of the Loquitz with the Sormitz as the main eastern river |
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| location | Thuringia , Germany | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Loquitz → Saale → Elbe → North Sea | |
| origin | Confluence of the Langwasser and Oßlabach rivers in the Wurzbach park | |
| muzzle | In Hockeroda in the Loquitz coordinates: 50 ° 35 '43 " N , 11 ° 25' 58" E 50 ° 35 '43 " N , 11 ° 25' 58" E
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| length | 29.2 km | |
 The Sormitz in the Wurzbach city park |
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The Sormitz is a 29.2 kilometer long tributary of the Loquitz in Thuringia .
It begins at the confluence of Langwasser and Oßlabach in the park of Wurzbach . Shortly afterwards, the B 90 and the Hockeroda – Unterlemnitz railway from Saalfeld to Bad Lobenstein reach the valley. They accompany the Sormitz to its mouth. The Sormitz now winds to the northwest through a narrow, deep, gorge-like valley. Due to the narrowness, there are no places, only individual mills in the valley. Disused slate quarries can still be seen on both sides of the river. After about 16 kilometers you reach the Sormitz Leutenberg , where the valley widens a little. Four kilometers below Leutenberg it flows from the right in Hockeroda into the Loquitz , a tributary of the Saale .
Naming
The origin of the name can no longer be determined with certainty. The origin is assumed to be from the Slavic Sb'rbica or Sb'rbici . In this case the name would mean Sorbenbach .
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).
