Tiefenbach waterfall
The Tiefenbach waterfall is an artificially created waterfall near the Saxon town of Altenberg in the Ore Mountains .
Geological features
The waterfall is located above Geising on the road to Altenberg at about 660 meters above sea level and was created in 1954. It falls in two steps with a total height of about 40 meters, which are separated by a short, flatter piece. This makes it one of the highest waterfalls in Saxony. The upper part falls freely about 15 to 20 meters and can be viewed from a viewing platform, which is accessible from the street on a hiking trail. The lower fall, also about 15 to 20 meters high, falls into a tube under the platform and can only be seen in the uppermost area. The waterfall is integrated into the cross- border mining nature trail and has the number 26 there. The average water flow in the Tiefenbach fluctuates between 0.1 and 1.0 cubic meters per second, depending on the weather . During a medium flood, the Tiefenbach carries around five cubic meters of water per second. The Tiefenbach flows into the Rote Wasser near Geising and this in turn flows into the Müglitz near the Lauenstein train station .
history
The waterfall was created in connection with the neighboring former Tiefenbach dump in the Tiefenbach valley between Altenberg and Geising, which was created between 1950 and 1954 and put into operation in 1955. It served as a rinsing dump to deposit the unusable residues from the tin extraction after washing . The rock powder from the neighboring quarry, washed in behind the 60 meter high mountain dam, settled there.
The stabilization measures for the heap also included the Tiefenbach and Schwarzwasser being discharged into the existing sloping ditch. Since then, the water has been falling from the edge of the mountain dam above the former quarry. The Tiefenbach should be fed back into the old creek bed as soon as possible. To make this possible, a pipe into which the lower waterfall later flowed was blasted into the rock in 1954. In order to drain the slope area, the slope trench was dug around the dump from 1958 to 1967. The heap was shut down in 1967 after a concrete pipe that led under the heap and received the water from the Tiefenbach and Schwarzwassers broke in October 1966. About 200,000 cubic meters of red mud poured over Geising. After the dump was closed, the water of the Tiefenbach was not moved back, so the waterfall was preserved.
literature
- Ivana Slunéčková: Cross-border mining educational trail. NIS Teplice, 2001.
- Mining Museum Altenberg (publisher): Cross-border mining educational trail: Keller-Werbung Freital, 2004.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 37 ″ N , 13 ° 46 ′ 37 ″ E