Todbach (Schloitzbach)

Todbach Todteichbach, Totbach, Totteichbach
The Todbach in Ebergrund, 1911
Data
Water code	DE : 53721892
location	Saxony
River system	Elbe
Drain over	Schloitzbach  → Wilde Weißeritz  → Weißeritz  → Elbe  → North Sea
source	west of the health resort Hartha in the Tharandt forest 50 ° 58 ′ 11 ″  N , 13 ° 33 ′ 7 ″  E
Source height	approx.  366  m above sea level NHN
muzzle	in Tharandt in the Schloitzbach Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 16 "  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 37"  E 50 ° 59 ′ 16 "  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 37"  E
Mouth height	approx.  230  m above sea level NHN
Height difference	approx. 136 m
Bottom slope	approx. 36 ‰
length	3.8 km

The Todbach , also Todteichbach (rarely: Totbach or Totteichbach , formerly Saubach or Eberbach ) is a right tributary to the Schloitzbach in Tharandt , Saxony . The name is reminiscent of the winter driving out as a pagan custom, in which a straw doll was symbolically burned or thrown in a pond.

course

The Todbach rises south of the forest houses belonging to the health resort Hartha on the district Tharandt in the northeast of the Tharandt forest . The source furthest from the estuary is the Lindenhof spring on the Hirschstange between aisles 4 and 5 on the northern slope of the S-Berg. In the forest area south-east of the Hart hebel (405 m), east of the Ascherhübels (417 m) and north of the Glasberg (370 m) the brook with the Glasborn and Grundbach takes up further spring water.

In the upper reaches, the stream flows in an easterly direction in a slight depression at Lindenhof through the health resort of Hartha. The Todbach then takes a north-easterly direction, flows through the eastern part of Hintergersdorf and forms an increasingly deeper valley on this section. The valley of the Todbach , traversed by the Talmühlenstraße, begins north of the following good . Below the Talmühle, a listed half-timbered ensemble, the stream flows with a smaller waterfall through the wooded Ebergrund and leaves the Hintergersdorf district there.

The lower course of the Todbach in the Tharandt district runs in a narrow creek loop with several abandoned quarries to the north around the Eichhübel (320 m). The sliding slope on the right leads around the steep Todteichleite and the Freundsberg; to the north on the Prallhang are the facilities of the former Tharandt lime works. The bottom stream section runs south to the incoming protruding from the north between the mortal and Schloitzbach spur goats Leite , who also since 1903 Bismarckhöhe is called. Shortly before the mouth of the Todbach, the Koch-Stolln lies on the right slope of the valley. After 3.8 km the Todbach flows into the Schloitzbach at Tharandter Amtshof.

Tributaries

• Glasborn (l)
• Grundbach with the supply line of the Eulenborn (l)
• Hintergersdorfer Bach (l)

history

Thalmühlenstraße with Todbach and Todteich, 1898

Talmühle, 1928

The water power of the Todbach was formerly used near Hintergersdorf to drive the Talmühle (formerly Sau or Ebermühle), which has been documented since 1591. Above the mill, the stream was dammed in the mill pond. Because of the withdrawal of some of the sources of the Todbach, the Hintergersdorfer and Tharandt mill owners received the sovereign concession in 1790 to drain water from the Warnsdorf spring and the Eulenborn over a ditch to strengthen the Todbach. After the mill was stopped, the valley mill was used as a restaurant for a long time. The death pond was created below the valley mill at this time; it served to operate the Tharandt upper mill, built in 1818, and was located between Talmühlenstraße and Winkelweg in Tharandt.

In 1911 the Eulenborn was taken for the water supply of Hartha, into which from 1927 the Lindenhof spring for Hintergersdorf (today the health resort Hartha) was included. Today there is a Kneipp facility at the Lindenhof spring.

On July 5, 1958, a heavy thunderstorm led to a flash flood of the Todbach, in which two Harthaer firefighters were killed by the water from the broken pond above the Talmühle. On the 1st anniversary of the flood disaster in 1959, a memorial stone made of reddish granite was unveiled opposite the Talmühle by the Kurort Hartha volunteer fire brigade for the two comrades Heinz Reuter and Helmut Simon who died in the field. In 2008 the fire brigade memorial stone was repaired and its inscription added the name of Tharandt firefighter Werner Otto, who died in 1958 together with the caretaker of the forestry college in the floods of the Schloitzbach.

literature

• Wolfgang Heinitz, Tharandt - On paths through the past and the present , in Tharandter Marginalien 2, Ed. Burgen- und Geschichtsverein Tharandt eV, 1st edition 1996 and 2nd edition 2016, p. 113 ff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Tharandt ( Memento from February 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Official Journal of the City of Tharandt 07/2009: 50 years memorial for the flood victims from July 5, 1958 at the Talmühle Kurort Hartha
3. ↑ Official Journal of the city Tharandt 07/2008: Werner Otto - gave his life 50 years ago