Weißmainquelle

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Weißmainquelle
Weißmainquelle.jpg
The Weißmainquelle on the Ochsenkopf
location
Country or region Bayreuth district , Upper Franconia ( Bavaria )
Coordinates 50 ° 1 ′ 47 "  N , 11 ° 49 ′ 26"  E
height 887 m above sea level NHN
Weißmainquelle (Bavaria)
Weißmainquelle
Weißmainquelle
Location of the source
geology
Mountains Fichtel Mountains
Hydrology
River system Rhine
Receiving waters White Main → Main → Rhine → North Sea

Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 47 ″  N , 11 ° 49 ′ 26 ″  E

The Weißmainquelle is the origin of the White Main , the right and northern source river of the Main , in the district of Bayreuth in Upper Franconia .

description

The Weißmainquelle (not to be confused with the Weismainquelle ) is located at 887 m above sea level. NN on the eastern slope of the Ochsenkopf in the community-free area and is considered the Main source, although the Red Main is a few kilometers longer. Usually it pours more heavily than the Rotmainquelle .

Margrave Friedrich von Brandenburg laid it down and in 1717 had it set in granite blocks bearing the Hohenzollern coat of arms. The spring was named Fürstenbrunnen , not to be confused with the Upper and Lower Fürstenbrunnen on the Ochsenkopf. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , on the other hand, saw the Seehausbrunnen ( 50 ° 1 ′ 56.8 ″  N , 11 ° 52 ′ 18 ″  E ) southeast of the Schneeberg as the main source in 1785 , namely, he wrote: “Source of the Main, which rises close to the house and here make the brook to tin washing ”.

The Weißmainquelle takes its name from the light, granite underground that makes the river appear whitish. In the hot summer of 1947 the spring dried up.

On the Ochsenkopf, the European main watershed runs between the Main spring, whose water reaches the North Sea via the Rhine , and the very close Fichtelnaab spring , which drains into the Black Sea via Fichtelnaab and Danube .

The Weißmainquelle is a station on the Quellenweg of the Fichtelgebirgsverein .

Geotope

The source is identified by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment as geotope 472Q003. See also the list of geotopes in the Bayreuth district .

literature

  • Dietmar Herrmann: The ox head in the Fichtel Mountains ; Volume 17/2009 of the series of publications by the Fichtelgebirgsverein Das Fichtelgebirge (detailed source description)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  2. ↑ Hydrology Fichtelgebirge: Seehausbrunnen
  3. ↑ When the Fichtelsee almost dried up in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of August 21, 2018, p. 17.
  4. ↑ Umweltatlas Bayern, Geotop: Weißmainquelle (accessed October 30, 2019; PDF; 1.7 MB)

Web links

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