Steinbach (Great Röder)
| Steinbach | ||
 The Steinbach in the mass egg |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | DE : 538414 | |
| location | Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Große Röder → Schwarze Elster → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source | LSG Massenei near Großröhrsdorf 51 ° 7 ′ 35 ″ N , 14 ° 2 ′ 24 ″ E |
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| Source height | 308 m above sea level NN | |
| muzzle | between Wallroda and Kleinröhrsdorf in the Große Röder Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 14 ″ N , 13 ° 58 ′ 20 ″ E 51 ° 7 ′ 14 ″ N , 13 ° 58 ′ 20 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 251 m above sea level NN | |
| Height difference | 57 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 10 ‰ | |
| length | approx. 5.5 km | |
| Left tributaries | Faulbach | |
| Flowing lakes | Stone pond | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Wallroda dam | |
The Steinbach is a left tributary of the Große Röder in Saxony. It rises in the Massenei landscape protection area near Großröhrsdorf , feeds the Wallroda dam and flows into the Große Röder after about 5.5 kilometers between Wallroda and Kleinröhrsdorf .
nature
In the mass egg, larger deposits of reeds occur at the beginning of the Steinbach . In addition, the common basin moss and in Germany protected peat moss grow in the bank area. In the further course of the river, the reeds are replaced by forest horsetail and forest lady fern . Water frogs inhabit the river. From the height of the mass egg bath, swamp thistles , spring herbs and blackberries also grow along the Steinbach. Water striders can be found throughout the river .
After the Wallroda dam, the Steinbach runs through smaller stocks of alders and willows . The banded demoiselle, which is protected in Germany , is also native here.
The Steinbach is also fed by two sources in the Massenei . Shortly after the river source, the Bornematzin spring rises and flows into the Steinbach. A hot spring rises near the stone pond .
Stone pond
At the course of the Steinbach in the Massenei is the stone pond (shown on some maps under the name Schäfereiteich ). A marked hiking trail and a bridle path run past the pond, another hiking trail leads around the pond. The bank is densely overgrown with bulrushes in places . The white water lily occurs on the stone pond . In the middle of the lake there is a small island that is used as a breeding ground by various species of birds. The gray heron can be seen at the stone pond.
The washing of the stone pond mermaids
In the Massenei, the Steinbach crosses the legend trail , which runs for about eight kilometers through the forest and brings hikers closer to the legends of the region. Two of the legends deal with the Steinbach and the Steinteich. One is about the stone pond mermaids :
“ Years ago, on a beautiful summer night, a boy from Großröhrsdorf was walking through the masses on his way home from his bride in Arnsdorf. At the stone pond he noticed how charming foggy shapes hovered, sank and sloped above the pond. On the bank, however, it was white as snow, and when he looked closer he noticed to his greatest astonishment that it was silk-like linen that was supposed to bleach in the moonlight. He would have liked to stretch out his hand for it. The boy often passed the stone pond at night. But he could always control himself and went on. One day he brought the crown of his heart to the altar. When the wedding party was sitting at the happy wedding feast in the evening, the door opened. Two beautiful girls came in. They presented the bride and groom with a box decorated with water roses. Then they disappeared without a trace. The box was filled with the finest snow-white linen that he had seen on the bank of the stone pond in the moonlight. When the young couple had a lovely little daughter in the cradle over the course of the year, the child was wrapped in the finest underwear of the stone pond mermaids. In the village she was later called the mermaid. "
Rüdigersdorf desert
The desert village of Rüdigersdorf or Rörschdorf is located on the course of the Steinbach in the Massenei . The village had its own mill with a mill. In the 18th century, the Großröhrsdorf historian Friedrich Ehregott Praßer reported on excavations found at the former site. Foundations, beams, door sills, pottery shards and parts of the mill wheel shaft were found. The author Friedrich Bernhard Störzner also reports on numerous finds along the Steinbach, which suggest a large village in the Massenei. He also suspected that Rüdigersdorf had its own church. He dates the downfall of the village to the time of the Hussite Wars in the 15th century. After the destruction, the remaining inhabitants gave up the place, the remains were overgrown by the forest.
A plaque commemorates the former village today.
The bells of Rüdigersdorf
Another panel of the legend trail through the mass egg tells of the bells of Rüdigersdorf :
“ Ms. Saga has prepared a home for herself on the Steinbach, which runs through the quiet forest of the masses. She plays on that babbling forest brook and whispers when the evening wind rushes through the trees and the full moon pours its silver light over the sea of forest of the masses. Then straw-covered huts rise up on that peaceful meadow, the houses of a village that was lost in fighting and quarreling and once stood in the middle of the masses. "
Wallroda dam
→ Main article: Wallroda dam
In the Wallroda district, the Steinbach was dammed between 1986 and 1989, thus creating the Wallroda dam. With a 200 meter long dam, this has a total storage space of 1.0 million m³. The reservoir is known nationwide both as a fishing water and as a recreation region and landscape protection area.
Others
At the level of the stone pond, the approx. 3 kilometer long Faulbach flows into the Steinbach.
Above the current dam wall of the Wallroda dam there was a wooden weir before the dam was built in 1986 . The water dammed in this way was used by the residents of Wallroda and Kleinröhrsdorf as a bathing area.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Saxon water network. Retrieved August 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Hydrological Handbook. Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology. Retrieved February 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Friedrich Bernhard Störzner: What the home tells . Legends, historical images and memorable events from Saxony. Contributions to Saxon folklore and local history. Verlag Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1904, p. 64–66 ( What the homeland tells on Wikisource ).