Steiner Bach
| Steiner Bach | ||
_c.jpg) The high valley of the Steiner Bach with the Outer Steiner Alm |
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| Data | ||
| location | East Tyrol | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Tauernbach → Isel → Drau → Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | at Gradötzkees | |
| muzzle | at the Prosseggklamm in the Tauernbach Coordinates: 47 ° 1 '19 " N , 12 ° 31' 43" E 47 ° 1 '19 " N , 12 ° 31' 43" E |
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| Mouth height |
971 m above sea level A.
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| Catchment area | 18.4 km² | |
| Communities | Matrei in East Tyrol | |
The Steiner Bach is a brook in the municipality of Matrei in East Tyrol ( Lienz district ). It is best known for the Steiner waterfalls formed in the lower reaches and owes its name to the hamlet of Stein . The Steiner Bach has a high nature conservation value due to its branches in the high valley.
course
The source streams of the Steiner Bach get their water from the southern slopes of the Gradötzkamm of the Granatspitz group between Trigenköpfl, Nussingkogel , Wellachköpf , Gradötz , Gradötzkogel and Bretterwandspitze (from west to east). The northernmost source arm of the Steiner Bach rises below the Gradötzkees at an altitude of around 2,900 meters. The individual spring arms unite around 2,000 meters below an old smelter to form the Steiner Bach, which then flows in a south-westerly direction through a high valley. After the Äußere Steiner Alm ( 1914 m above sea level ), the stream leaves the plateaus used as alpine meadows and plunges through wooded gorges into the valley, where it forms the Steiner waterfalls in the lower reaches. In the Prossegklamm, the Steiner Bach finally flows into the Tauernbach, whereby the water of the Steiner Bach was used for energy purposes between 1920 and 2002.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (Ed.): Area directory of the Austrian river basins: Draugebiet. Contributions to the hydrography of Austria, issue No. 59, Vienna 2011, p. 9 ( PDF; 3.5 MB )
- ↑ Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government Dept. Environmental Protection (Ed.): Nature Conservation Plan of the Tyrolean River Areas. Classification of the river area-specific natural area potential. District: East Tyrol. Lienz 2004
