Pulsnitz (river)

The Pulsnitz Elsterwerda

The Pulsnitz is a left tributary of the river Schwarze Elster in Saxony and Brandenburg. It rises on the western slope of the Ohorn Fir Mountain and flows through the cities Pulsnitz, Koenigsbrueck and outskirts.

The actual source is located in the basement of a residential building, below which a pond collects the spring water. This is provided at the inflow tube with a blackboard, the " 1976 Pulsnitzquelle VMI " bears the inscription. The Pulsnitz runs underground through the entire ancient village of Ohorn and only occurs about 900 meters further south-west and about 50 meters deep at the edge of arable land back to the surface.

The Pulsnitz flows through the Konigsbriicker Heath, where the military training area Koenigsbrueck and until 1938 the market town Krakow was at the Pulsnitz 1906-1992. After about 60 kilometers, it flows far from Elsterwerda in the Schwarze Elster.

However, the original mouth and thus the Saxon- Brandenburg state border was to the village Tettau. It formed the historical triangle of the Margraviate of Meissen with the Upper and Lower Lusatia.

The headwaters and almost the entire Saxon Tiefental the Pulsnitz are nature or landscape conservation. The small river is there largely unspoilt. The partial straightening of Pulsnitz and its tributary, the Haselbach, the flow rate and hence the sediment transport was increased in the upper reaches. The former is based at Koenigsbrueck rare freshwater pearl mussel silted up and died out. The serious pollution of Pulsnitz by sewage from households and ( textile ) industry faded away after the reunification with the construction of municipal wastewater treatment plants and the demise of the East German industry.

The Pulsnitz was for centuries the border between Saxony and Lusatia, what still remember old field names. Several settlements were located on both sides of the river, the location on the west bank was designated as the Meissner regular side and the easternmost than Oberlausitzer page (or even Bohemian page ). At the beginning of the 20th century, these sites have been pooled.

The Pulsnitz is also regarded as the boundary between the old elbslawischen tribal areas of Daleminzi left hand and the right of Milzener Pulsnitz.

Among the tributaries of Pulsnitz include the Haselbach, the Otterbach and Käbnitz.

The Pulsnitz in the outskirts

The mouth of the Schwarze Elster Elsterwerda