Teufelsbach (Steyr)

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Teufelsbach
Frozen waterfall near the Wehrgraben tunnel (2009)

Frozen waterfall near the Wehrgraben tunnel (2009)

Data
Water code AT : HZB: 2-134-330, GGN: 406046
location near Steyr , Upper Austria
Drain over Steyr  → Enns  → Danube  → Black Sea
River basin district Danube below Jochenstein (DUJ)
source at Saaß
48 ° 1 ′ 9 ″  N , 14 ° 22 ′ 24 ″  E
Source height approx.  400  m above sea level A.
muzzle in the Gsangwasser (Steyr secondary channel) in Steyr-Vogelsang coordinates: 48 ° 2 '23 "  N , 14 ° 24' 34"  E 48 ° 2 '23 "  N , 14 ° 24' 34"  E
Mouth height 291  m above sea level A.
Height difference approx. 109 m
Bottom slope approx. 21 ‰
length 5.1 km
Catchment area 6.18 km²
Left tributaries Edlbauerngrabenbach
Communities Garsten , Steyr
Catchment area including Gsangwasser, length in this sense approx. 5.45 km

The Teufelsbach is a right tributary of the Steyr in the statutory city of Steyr in Upper Austria .

Run

The Teufelsbach arises when Garstner place Saaß . It flows in a ditch below Pesendorf eastwards, and then northwards past Garsten , where the Garstner pond is, and further through Garsten Nord , and below Schlühslmayr through Reichenschwall . To the west below the old town of Steyr , in Vogelsang , it takes up the Edlbauerngrabenbach (Hofergrabenbach). After a good 5 km run, shortly after Engelseck Castle, at the Wehrgraben tunnel , it flows into the Gsang water , a tributary of the Steyr on the Gsang Island (Eisenfeld) .

Hydrography and History

The name probably refers to the wild run. Engelseck Castle was accordingly called Teufelseck until 1642 . The old name of the brook is Sarningbach , or Sarmingbach , a Germanization of the Sabinicha named around 990 . which is of Slavic origin and comes from žaba 'frog' ('frog brook'). This is the name of the Sarning cadastral community . The place name Reichenschwall also goes back to the stream ('rich flood').

Until it was diverted in 1572, the brook flowed south of the old town through the Hundsgraben and flowed into the Enns at today's Neutor . The upper course can fall dry in summer, but it also creates dangerous floods.

The catchment area - including the upper Gsangwasser - is 6.2 km².

literature

  • Friedrich Berndt: The Teufelsbach in Steyr. In: Steyrer Zeitung, No. 2, January 10, 1952, supplement.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System (DORIS); Subject waters and geology , layers small waters and detailed catchment areas .
  2. ↑ a b c d Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (ed.): List of areas of the Austrian river basins: Enns area. (= Contributions to Austria's Hydrography , Issue No. 61), Vienna 2011, p. 60 ( PDF, 3.9 MB ( Memento of the original dated December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Lebensministerium.at). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lebensministerium.at
  3. ↑ cf. The gold treasure in the Teufelsbach. In: Franz Harrer: Sagas and legends of Steyr. Wilhelm Ennsthaler Verlag, Steyr 1980, p. 32 ff (online on haben.at).
  4. ↑ Valentin Preuenhueber : Annales Styrenses. Johann Adam Schmidt 1740, entry for the year 1584, pp. 302–303 ( digitized, Google, complete view )
  5. ↑ a b See Steyr. In: Vienna City and State Archives, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for City History Research: Austrian City Atlas ; Section in the tradition book mentioned at the beginning ... and source 13 (online mapire.eu; with map ; there also the old run).
  6. ↑ Sapinihca as a place in the oldest tradition book of the Hochstift Passau around 990; Max Heuwieser (ed.): The Traditions of the Hochstift Passau , Munich 1930 (= sources and discussions on Bavarian history NF 6), 82, no. 93b; Specifying Städteatlas , source 13
  7. ↑ This name can also be found for the Sarmingbach in the Mühlviertel; Etymology to this: Konrad Schiffmann : The Upper Austrian place names. Akad. Buchdr. d. cath. Preßvereines, 1906, entry Sarming [stein] , p. 37 , column 2 ( eReader , digi.landesbibliothek.at).
  8. ↑ Steyr street names: Reichenschwall. steyr.at (accessed on October 28, 2016).
  9. ↑ steyr. Official Gazette of the City of Steyr, No. 2/2005, July 2010, Chronicle - Remembrance of the past: 50 years ago. P. 2 ( whole issue, pdf , steyr.at).