Lower Querenbach

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Lower Querenbach
Lower Querenbach

Lower Querenbach

Data
Water code DE : 5418226
location Germany, Saxony
River system Elbe
Drain over Gablenzbach  → Würschnitz  → Chemnitz  → Zwickauer Mulde  → Mulde  → Elbe  → North Sea
source in the Bürgerwald east of Stollberg / Erzgeb.
50 ° 42 ′ 49 "  N , 12 ° 49 ′ 34"  E
Source height about  530  m above sea level NHN
muzzle Stollberg / Erzgeb. Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 7 "  N , 12 ° 47 ′ 15"  E 50 ° 43 ′ 7 "  N , 12 ° 47 ′ 15"  E
Mouth height about  396  m above sea level NHN
Height difference about 134 m
Bottom slope about 43 ‰
length 3.1 km
Catchment area 6.5 km²
Reservoirs flowed through Stollberg dam
Small towns Stollberg / Erzgeb.

The Untere Querenbach is a right tributary of the Gablenzbach near Stollberg / Erzgeb. in the Saxon Ore Mountains . It is dammed by the Stollberg dam.

course

Stollberg dam

The Lower Querenbach - about 2.4 km to the southwest there is the Upper Querenbach - rises east of Stollberg in the Bürgerwald , just a little below the iron road . In the water-rich headwaters, it joins other, small tributaries. After about 1 km of walking, it is dammed up by the dam, which can hold up to 1.22 million cubic meters and is also called the Querenbachtalsperre after the stream . This serves to supply Stollberg with drinking water and was built between 1949 and 1954. The good quality of the water is due to the fact that the northern edge of the Ore Mountains is interspersed with numerous sloping hollows that are filled with rubble covers that filter the water. As early as after the First World War , numerous wells were built here to supply the city of Oelsnitz . The S-Bächel , formerly the left tributary of the lower Querenbach, still pours into the dam from the left . Behind the about 21 m high dam the brook then flows about 1.4 km to its confluence with the Gablenzbach.

See also

literature

  • Querenbachtalsperre. In: Between Mülsengrund, Stollberg and Zwönitztal (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 35). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1981, p. 168.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Saxony Atlas
  2. ↑ a b Map of the Saxony water balance portal
  3. ↑ Between Mülsengrund, Stollberg and Zwönitztal (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 35). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1981, pp. 165, 168.