Zinnbach (Eger)

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Zinnbach
earlier: Old Eger
Data
location Fichtel Mountains

Bavaria

River system Elbe
Drain over Eger  → Elbe  → North Sea
Supreme source Northern slope of Schneeberg
50 ° 3 ′ 47 ″  N , 11 ° 51 ′ 29 ″  E
Source height approx.  890  m above sea level NHN
muzzle Southeast of Voitsumra Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '29 "  N , 11 ° 51' 12"  E 50 ° 5 '29 "  N , 11 ° 51' 12"  E
Mouth height 622  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 268 m
Bottom slope approx. 71 ‰
length approx. 3.8 km
Catchment area approx. 7.1 km²

The Zinnbach is a right and southern tributary of the upper Eger in the urban area of Weißenstadt in the northeast Bavarian district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains .

geography

course

The source brooks of the Zinnbach arise on the northern slope of the wooded Schneeberg ( 1051  m above sea level ), the Rudolfstein in front of it northeast ( 866  m above sea level ) and another nameless pre-peak in the northeast ( 853  m above sea level ) of the Schneeberg summit in the community-free Weißenstadter Forst-Süd . The uppermost permanent pouring spring is located about 1.2 km north-northeast of the summit plateau of the Schneeberg at about ( 890  m above sea level ) in the Gewann Brunnendick . The resulting Zinnbach flows first about north-northwest, until after about one and a half kilometers at the confluence of a source stream tuft and the outflow of only about 734  m above sea level. Alten-Eger-Quelle located on the NHN reaches a valley channel running northeast.

In this direction, it passes the Weißenhaider mill in a small Weißenstadt exclave and steps out of the mountain forest into the corridor and the urban area of Weißenstadt a little below this shortly before the village of Weißenhaid . The largest tributary, the Sägwiesenbach, flows here from the right, and the Zinnbach now flows in an arc slightly to the left to the north for a long time next to the district road WUN 2 and flows through the village of Weißenhaid. Finally it flows about a quarter of a kilometer southeast of the village outskirts of Voitsumra from the right as its only second more important tributary at 622  m above sea level. NHN in the uppermost Eger .

The Zinnbach has a length of about 3.8 km from its uppermost source, the difference of about 268 meters in altitude it passes through with a very high mean bed gradient of around 70 ‰.

Catchment area

The Zinnbach drains about 7.1 km² on and below the northern slope of the Schneeberg approximately northwards to the Eger. In the northwest, its catchment area borders that of the Krebsbach , a smaller right-hand Eger tributary a little further up. On its east side, the Birkenbach takes in most of the streams on the other side of Schneeberg and Rudolfstein, which flows into the Eger a little below Weißenstadt. Almost on the Schneeberg summit, the drainage area of ​​the Röslau emerging on its eastern slope borders briefly, which drains further down into the Eger. On the southern slope of the Schneeberg, the streams all run to the White Main , which also receives all of the runoff beyond the southwestern watershed of the Zinnbach, including the Kroppenbach . The entire southwestern, hydrologically most important catchment area border over the Schneeberg is therefore part of the major watershed between the Elbe on this side and the Rhine on the other.

Tributaries

Surname

The brook name refers to the tin ore mining that has been practiced here since the Middle Ages. At the lower-lying, above-mentioned Alte Eger spring in the feed system of the Zinnbach, which is located in a forest clearing near a forest hut, the old Eger began, according to earlier opinion . In 1923 the Eger spring catchment was relocated almost two kilometers further west to its current location, whereupon this name disappeared.

Economic use

With the water of the Zinnbach the water wheels of hammer mills and bellows in the Weißenhaider mill and in Weißenhaid were driven.

literature

  • Dietmar Herrmann, Helmut Süssmann: Fichtel Mountains, Bavarian Vogtland, Steinwald, Bayreuther Land. Dictionary. Ackermannverlag, Hof (Saale) 2000, ISBN 3-929364-18-2 .
  • Rainer H. Schmeissner: Romantic Egertal. Issue 9 (1987) of the series of articles on the history and regional studies of the Fichtelgebirge
  • Georg Kraus: Weißenstadt Homeland Book (1971)
  • Dietmar Herrmann: Im Zinnbachtal , FGV series of publications Our Fichtelgebirge Volume VI / 2017, pp. 83–86

map

Individual evidence

Official online waterway map: source location of the Zinnbach
For other sections of the river, please move the section or change the scale.
General introduction without default settings and layers: BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )

  1. ↑ Height queried on the official map background layer (right click).
  2. ↑ Height according to the blue lettering on the official map background layer .
  3. ↑ Length measured at the top source on the official map background layer .
  4. ↑ Catchment area measured on the official map background layer .