Steinbach (Schwarzwasser)

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Steinbach
The Steinbach near the Teufelssteine.

The Steinbach near the Teufelssteine.

Data
Water code DE : 54124
location Saxony , Germany
River system Elbe
Drain over Schwarzwasser  → Zwickauer Mulde  → Mulde  → Elbe  → North Sea
source at the Kleiner Kranichsee
50 ° 25 ′ 34 ″  N , 12 ° 39 ′ 57 ″  E
Source height about  940  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in Erlabrunn in the Schwarzwasser Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 21 "  N , 12 ° 43 ′ 7"  E 50 ° 28 ′ 21 "  N , 12 ° 43 ′ 7"  E
Mouth height about  600  m above sea level NHN
Height difference about 340 m
Bottom slope about 43 ‰
length approx. 8 km 
(from Kleiner Kranichsee)
Left tributaries Hinterer Milchbach, Vorderer Milchbach

The Steinbach is a left tributary of the Black Water in the Ore Mountains .

course

The stream has two main source branches. One has its source southwest of Johanngeorgenstadt near the Kleiner Kranichsee in the ridge region of the Western Ore Mountains . At first it flows through a boggy area and runs 2 km north to Eibenstocker Straße (S 272). Here it unites with the streams coming down from the boar pool, which are considered the second source branch. It then runs about 1.5 km parallel to the S 272 to ENE and then turns northeast into the Steinbachtal. Here the stream in has Tourmaline - granite a deep erosion valley created. It follows the valley for about 4 km until, after another 500 m to the east, it flows into the Schwarzwasser in Erlabrunn .

Already in the headwaters, but also en route, the Steinbach takes on numerous smaller streams, of which only the Hintere Milchbach and the Vordere Milchbach are of greater importance.

particularities

Even at low tide, the stream bed is several meters wide. During the flood on July 6, 1931, 2.5 t granite rocks were transported.

In the 16th to 19th centuries, intensive tin soap mining took place at Steinbach , to which the village of Steinbach was founded around 1530. Not only at the Sauschwemme, but also in the Steinbachtal, several so-called Lachtersifen were being dismantled, each of which was building hundreds and more meters of the stream. In addition, to the west of the Riesenberg there was a mighty red iron stone entrance , which was dismantled through countless pits. The most significant were the repositories grace of God the mold , Fir Tree , Old Man and the Red Pit . The latter two received the impact water for their art facilities via an approximately 6.5 km long artificial ditch that was fed from the Steinbach.

About halfway in the Steinbachtal are the up to 35 m high Teufelssteine . These granite rocks can be climbed on 16 routes .

Before 1751, the meteorite Steinbach , the main representative of the Siderophyre , was found here on an iron rock dump .

literature

  • Steinbachtal. In: Um Aue, Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 20). 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1973, p. 167 f.
  • Adolf Hanle: Devil's Stones in the Steinbachtal . In: Erzgebirge (=  Meyer's nature guide ). Meyers Lexikonverlag, Mannheim a. a. 1992, p. 130-132 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Adolf Hanle: Teufelssteine ​​im Steinbachtal . In: Erzgebirge (=  Meyer's nature guide ). S. 131 .
  2. ^ The storm surge in the Schwarzwassertal in 1931. Retrieved on April 25, 2014 .
  3. ^ Otfried Wagenbreth : The Freiberg mining . Technical monuments and history. Ed .: Eberhard Wächtler . 2nd Edition. German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1988, p. 202-204 .
  4. ↑ Devil's Stone. Retrieved April 25, 2014 . (Side of the DAV )

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