Oelsabach

The Oelsabach at the Heidemühle

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The Oelsabach is a low mountain in the Saxon Erzgebirge and lower right tributary of the Red Weißeritz.

Run

The three sources of the creek are located southeast of the city Dippoldiswalde and their district misery at 440 m above sea level. The slope of the Ore Mountains to the north, following it forms the first village stream of Waldhufen village Reinholdshain, the water is at the end of the village about 364 meters. From here on the ridge line of the Karsdorfer fault forms the eastern watershed of its catchment area.

Prior to joining the Dippoldiswalder Heide he fed the applied Hafterteich with the former pond mill, then crosses the main road 170 to dine after a few hundreds of meters also offered in the 17th century created for mill purposes Heath Mill Pond, which is located at Karsdorf.

In the north-west facing emerging from the forest area of ​​the heath and a height of 307 meters in altitude of the stream runs within the eponymous village Oelsa whose Dorfbach it forms in a Kerbsohlental. A closer Sohlental with multiple bends ausbildend flows through the creek, the low-lying areas of Rabenau ( Unterrabenau ) and ends at the same breakpoint of Weißeritztalbahn in the Red Weißeritz to 250 meters above sea level. NN. The neighboring catchment areas are the Red Weißeritz in the east and in the west of the Lockwitzbach.