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	White Laber; (upper course: lower citizens Laber )
	White Laber in Dietfurt
	Data
Water code	EN : 1388
location	Bavaria (Germany)
River system	Danube
Drain over	Altmühl → Danube → Black Sea
source	in the Aubrunnen east of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate ; 49 ° 16 ′ 20 ″ N , 11 ° 31 ′ 45 ″ E
Source height	approx. 505 m above sea level NN
muzzle	near Dietfurt in the Altmühl coordinates: 49 ° 1 '46 " N , 11 ° 34' 47" E 49 ° 1 '46 " N , 11 ° 34' 47" E;
Mouth height	355 m above sea level NN
Height difference	approx. 150 m
Bottom slope	approx. 3.4 ‰
length	44.7 km
Catchment area	356.69 km²
	The White Laber flows into an old arm of the Altmühl

The Weisse Laber (also Weisse Laaber ) is a 45 km long left tributary of the Altmühl in Bavaria .

course

The Weiße Laber rises in the Aubrunnen south of the Voggenthal district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate . A few steps after this source, an about one kilometer long upper course flows from the right, which rises west of the place above the end of the market path towards Höhenberg on the European watershed . The White Laber flows from there through the Upper Palatinate Jura towards the south. In the upper reaches up to the confluence with the Breitenbrunner Laber, it is also known as the Lower Citizen Laber . At Dietfurt it splits up and flows into an old arm of the Altmühl .

Character and environment

Because of the surrounding barren landscape, the White Laber is often referred to as the Euphrates of Bavaria. On its way it takes in numerous smaller tributaries from karst springs . There are bog formations in the valley that began 3000 years ago. A number of endangered animal and plant species exist in the remains of these moors. Part of the valley near Deining is designated as a nature reserve valley of the Weißen Laaber near Deining and the Weiße Laaber near Waltersberg .

Bike and hiking trails along the idyllic lake invite you to explore.

The river was crossed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in October 1786 on the occasion of his Italian trip , and at that time he called it a "stinking filth".

Tributaries

Lengenbach (right)
Schwalgraben (right)
Zellerbach (left)
Döllwanger Bach (right)
Alfalterbach (left)
Fischbach (right)
Bolitzgraben (left)
Hirtenbach (right)
Peterbachl (left)
Brook from the lower citizen karst spring (right)
Bach from the Premerzhofen spring (left)
Breitenbrunner Laber (left)

Places on the river

Yours
Holnstein (district of Berching )
Dietfurt

photos

Source of the White Laber (Aubrunnen)
The lower Labertal near Dietfurt
The White Laber before the confluence with the Breitenbrunner Laber
The Weißes and the Breitenbrunner Laber meet in Dietfurt

literature

Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Laber . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB 790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 252 ( digitized version ).
Friedrich Fürnrohr : A bed made of sand and clay. On the upper Weißen Laaber between Voggenthal and Deining. In: incentive. Agenda 21 event magazine ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : White Laber - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Lower course of the Weißen Laber on the BayernAtlas

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Directory of the brook and river areas in Bavaria - Lech to Naab river area, page 124 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 2.9 MB)
^ Bavarian flood news service

[DE-BY_GV13124-1] Directory of the brook and river areas in Bavaria - Lech to Naab river area, page 124 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 2.9 MB)

[2] Bavarian flood news service

[ADAC-3] Germany 1010/2011: ADAC Reise Atlas 1: 200000 © 2009 MairDumont Media, D-73751 Ostfildern (2.)