Devil's brook

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Devil's brook
Data
location Germany ( Bavaria )
River system Saale
Drain over Zottelbach  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
Source height approx.  530  m above sea level NN
muzzle in the Zottelbach coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 46 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 20 ″  E 50 ° 23 ′ 46 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 20 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  460  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 70 m
Bottom slope approx. 78 ‰
length 900 m

The Teufels Bächlein , also called Teufelsbächlein, is a tributary of the Zottelbach . This is a tributary of the Saale .

Name meaning

The name is derived from the Old High German tiufal or the Middle High German tiuvel or tievel - which means devil. Why this part of the landscape was animated by the devil in popular belief is unknown.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elfriede Ulbricht: The river basin of the Thuringian Saale. A name-based investigation (= German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history. No. 2, ISSN  0070-3893 ). Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1957, (at the same time: Leipzig, University, dissertation, 1954).