Syrabach
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Syrabach Syra |
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| location | Vogtland , Saxony , Germany | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | White Elster → Saale → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source | in the Mehltheurer forest 50 ° 32 ′ 35 ″ N , 12 ° 3 ′ 10 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 520 m | |
| muzzle | between the new and old Elsterbrücke in Plauen in the White Elster Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 34 " N , 12 ° 8 ′ 28" E 50 ° 29 ′ 34 " N , 12 ° 8 ′ 28" E
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| length | 9 km | |
| Left tributaries | Krachlitzbach, Hakenbach | |
| Right tributaries | Kemnitzbach, Forstbach, Zwoschwitzbach | |
The Syrabach , also known as Syra for short , is a body of water in the Saxon Vogtland .
Although only nine kilometers long, the stream is of major importance for the region. Already in the first document of the Vogtland from 1122 it is mentioned under the name Siroune as the border waters of the Gau Dobna . The mountain spur, geologically created by both bodies of water when the Syrabach flows into the White Elster , was used to build the town of Plauen . The name was probably derived from the Old Sorbian word zir, which stands for “pasture” or “fodder”. Today the Syrabach is also known as Syra for short.
The source is about 520 m above sea level. NN in the Mehltheurer forest near the B282. Here the stream flows in an easterly direction, leaves the forest on the Hainwiese and shortly afterwards passes the town of Syrau , which is named after him.
Behind Syrau, the stream runs through the area of the former military training area of the Soviet Army in a south-easterly direction , then reaches the Plauen district of Kauschwitz and flows in the middle of fields in the straightened stream bed towards the city center of Plauen . The Syratal conservation area, the central recreational area of Plauen, begins at the wood mill . Surrounded by deciduous forest, the stream continues to flow here in a natural bed in a notched valley . The Zwoschwitzbach flows from the west from the municipality of the same name to Zwoschwitz, and is fed by the water of the Geilingsbach from the direction of Neundorf.
The Syratal is spanned by the Syratalbrücke , a large viaduct (209 m long and 32 m high) in 11 arches. This bridge was built for the Plauen – Eger railway line . A few meters further on, the brook passes the Dobenaufelsen, the legend after the ancestral seat of the Dobnagau . Shortly afterwards, the Syrabach runs through the Syratal leisure facility and is crossed by Germany's only electric park railway with overhead lines. The area of the leisure facility also includes a children's traffic training area, a mini golf course and a petting zoo. The traditional Plauen brewery Sternquell is on the opposite side of the brook and thus the bridge .
Immediately afterwards, in the middle of Plauen, the Friedensbrücke , the largest stone arch bridge in Europe, spans the Syratal. The first part of the underground course of the Syra begins in the area of the Friedensbrücke. The stream emerges again in backyards and private properties, but then runs almost 1 km in length completely under what is now Plauen's city center. The central main square in Plauen, the Postplatz , is therefore colloquially known as the “tunnel” - the Syrabach is “tunneled over” here. The central tram and bus stop Plauens on this square is also called the tunnel . The underground canal only ends immediately before it flows into the White Elster near the Old Elster Bridge, the second oldest bridge in Saxony.
Work on laying the Syrabach underground began on May 26, 1885 and was completed in the same year.
The stream has a degree of water pollution from I to II and is therefore not at all polluted with pollutants , there are smaller schools of fish , but fishing is not allowed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fun in the city - on a shopping and adventure tour in the top city. Tourist Information of the City of Plauen, January 2016, accessed on January 31, 2017 .
- ^ A. Neupert: Small Chronicle of the City of Plauen i. Vogtl. from 1122 until the end of the 19th century . Plauen 1908, p. 48