Titanbach

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Titanbach
Titianbach
at the mouth

at the mouth

Data
location Unterharz , Saxony-Anhalt , Harz district ( Germany )
River system Elbe
Drain over Selke  → Bode  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source near Forsthaus Wilhelmshof ( Harzgerode )
51 ° 39 ′ 20 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 13 ″  E
Source height approx.  393  m above sea level NHN
muzzle below the Selkemühle after crossing into the urban area of Falkenstein / Harz Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 30 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 6 ″  E 51 ° 40 ′ 30 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 6 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  222.5  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 170.5 m
Bottom slope approx. 43 ‰
length 4 km
Small towns Harzgerode , Falkenstein / Harz
Residents in the catchment area 0

The Titanbach is an approximately 4 km long right tributary of the Selke . It flows in the Lower Harz in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt .

A hiking trail, the Annenweg, leads largely along the stream, which is completely in the forest.

course

The Titanbach rises in the Harz / Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park near the Wilhelmshof forest house. Further water is supplied from a large number of sources in the common headwaters of the Selke tributaries Titanbach and Schiebecksbach and the Ein tributaries Leine and Schwennecke . Water comes from the areas of Strenzelberg , Kleiner Sauerberg and Zimmerberg . The headwaters lie in the forest in the triangle of Harzgerode, Pansfelde and Falkenstein Castle . The spring arms, which tend to flow towards the north, fill the Titanbach, those to the west the Schiebecksbach and the Leine or Schwennecke to the south and east. The individual spring arms are sometimes only a few meters next to each other. The Friederickenstraße runs between Degenershausen and the Wilhelmshof corridor on the Selke and Wipper watershed .

The up to three kilometers long left-hand river arms flow together for about 600 meters through the forest and unite with the up to about 2 kilometers long southern source arms before the Titanbach joins another side arm about 500 meters downstream. This arm, a few hundred meters long, rises near the sources of a smaller, right-hand tributary of the Selke, which flows further downstream.

Finally, the Titanbach flows  into the Selke tributary of the Bode near the Selkemühle , roughly at flow kilometer 38 .

Origin of name

No sources are known about the origin of the name. There are two possibilities for brooks named after natural resources. Once the mineral can be mined nearby, it can occur in the stream bed or be contained in the water. More often, such a stream was named after the mineral because of the color of its water. However, titanium was never found or even mined in the lower resin . The name could also have originated from a misspelling , because a Tidian bridge crosses the Selke just a few meters from the mouth of the stream .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elfriede Ulbricht: The river basin of the Thuringian Saale . Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1957.