Tannbach (Saale)

Tannbach Fir brook
The Tannbach in Mödlareuth
Data
Water code	DE : 56156
location	Saale-Orla district , Hof district
River system	Elbe
Drain over	Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source	at Gefell -Gebersreuth 50 ° 26 '11 "  N , 11 ° 54' 13"  O
Source height	approx.  620  m above sea level NN
muzzle	between Joditz and Hirschberg in the Saale Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 36 "  N , 11 ° 50 ′ 6"  E 50 ° 23 ′ 36 "  N , 11 ° 50 ′ 6"  E
Mouth height	approx.  445  m above sea level NN
Height difference	approx. 175 m
Bottom slope	approx. 20 ‰
length	8.7 km
Catchment area	29 km²
Left tributaries	Kupferbach
Communities	Gefell , Töpen

The Tannbach is a creek about six kilometers long in Thuringia and Bavaria .

It rises east of Gefell in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . It first flows in a southerly direction through Gebersreuth before reaching the village of Mödlareuth . Here he played an important role at the time of the division of Germany . He divided the village into a north-western part belonging to the GDR and a south-eastern part belonging to the Federal Republic of Germany . Today the Thuringian-Bavarian border runs here. Below Mödlareuth, it continues to flow in a south-westerly direction before flowing into the Saale from the right at Hirschberg .

The name of the brook is actually derived from the fir tree . The Tannbach is the namesake of the historical film of the same name " Tannbach - Fate of a Village " and the documentary "Tannbach - The Documentation".

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  Tannbach in Mödlareuth, 1949

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  Water barrier in the Tannbach on the former inner-German border in Mödlareuth

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  Mouth of the Tannbach (opposite) into the Saale (from the right)

Web links

Commons : Tannbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Complete table of the Bavarian water directory of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (XLS, 10.3 MB)
2. ↑ Elfriede Ulbricht: The river basin of the Thuringian Saale . 1st edition. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1957.