Zeidelweidebach

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Zeidelweidebach
Data
location Adorf / Vogtl. , Vogtlandkreis , Saxony , Germany
River system Elbe
Drain over White Elster  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source east of the border with the Czech Republic
50 ° 18 ′ 3 ″  N , 12 ° 13 ′ 12 ″  E
muzzle On the western outskirts of Mühlhausen , district of Bad Elster , in the White Elster Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 54 ″  N , 12 ° 15 ′ 6 ″  E 50 ° 17 ′ 54 ″  N , 12 ° 15 ′ 6 ″  E

The Zeidelweidebach is a flowing body of water in the small Saxon town of Adorf / Vogtl. in the Vogtland district .

location

The left, about 2.2 km long tributary of the White Elster has its source east of the border with the Czech Republic near the ground monument of the Old Castle Schönfeld . From there, the stream flows through the Zeidelweidetal of the Zeidelweide and Pfaffenloh nature reserve in an easterly direction . It flows west of the B 92 on the western outskirts of Mühlhausen / Vogtland, a district of Bad Elster , into the White Elster.

origin of the name

The name Zeidelweidebach refers to an old type of use of the easily accessible brook valley, which is made up of forest. A Zeidelweide was a piece of forest in which the Zeidler won honey and beeswax from wild bees .

Worth seeing and knowing

The old Schönfeld Palace

Here was a moated castle , which was probably built in connection with the settlement in the 12th century. Today we find an island there in the middle of a ditch that is filled with water and surrounded by a ring-shaped wall.

Flora and fauna

literature

  • Bruno Rudau, Max Meinel, Erich Stübiger: Bad Elster, Sohl - Radiumbad Brambach , series: Our little traveling booklet, issue 8, Leipzig 1957