Milz (river)
Milzquelle
The spleen is an approximately 33 km long right and north-easterly tributary of the Franconian Saale in Thuringia and Bavaria ( Germany ).
Course
The spleen arises from the west near the villages Roth and Zeilfeld in the Thuringian DC mountains. Your source area is located between the Little DC Mountain to the north and the Great DC Mountain in the south. First, it flows in a southeasterly direction through the memory Roth II ( reservoirs for drinking water supply ) and through the village of Roth, then south to Simmershausen. In the following, it wraps around to a westerly course through direct Proven and Hindfeld after spleen in the south the Great DC Mountain. Southeast of the community spleen leads the Jump in the river, which is tangent to the place in the south. Until the 1980s, yet, the river divided south of the local situation and ran than 1 km long Doppelarmsystem to the west. Then the old meanders were straightened to melioration and probably ancient river drained into the vicinity of the border.
After crossing the border to Bavaria in the spleen flows predominantly south-westerly direction through Irmelshausen, Höchheim, Gollmuthhausen and Walter Hausen to room on the Saale, on the eastern outskirts of the village it flows into the Franconian Saale there coming from the south.
Inflows
Among the tributaries of the spleen include ( downriver listed ):
- Raber Bach ( left)
- Solzbach (left)
- Landwehr trench ( right)
- Erlenbach (left)
- Rotbach (right)
- Spring ( right)
- Mönchshofgraben (right)
- Long trench ( right)
- Brühl trench ( right)
- Green Brook (right)
- Riedbächlein (left)
- Buchgraben (right)
- Ores Bach ( left)
- Grasbach (left)
Fauna
Valley
The Valley of the spleen is a high quality wetland occur in the rare and endangered species. In the wet meadows and pastures are found, for example, the Snipe, the Whinchat, the Bluethroat, the Marsh Grasshopper and the Wanstschrecke.
Waters
On and in the sections still very natural spleen live typical stream inhabitants like kingfishers, Demoiselle, loach, Koppe, minnow and Schneider, grayling, brown trout, stone loach, gudgeon, perch, carp, roach, rudd and rainbow trout.
Economic use
The economic use of the river spleen began in the early Middle Ages. Because you converges much spring water from the same mountain area and they quickly flows in the upper reaches, the spleen was rich in usable fish. Evidence of the street name fish market street in the local situation spleen. Near the village spleen ran until the end of the 70s a mill with water from a localnear side arm. Another, which was demolished during the construction of border installations in 1961, stood southwest of the spleen to the community Irmelshausen. The Milzmühlen generated mainly flour for the surrounding bakeries and bakery stores. Some of them are still in use, primarily in the sideline, often serves hydropower and electricity generation. The Knights mill just before the mouth of the river in the Franconian Saale is a sawmill. Some fishing clubs exploiting the spleen.
River system spleen
See list of running water in the river system spleen