Struga (river)

Strugaaue in loop

The Struga [ stru ː ɡa ] ( colloquially often [ ʃtʁu ɡa ː ] ) is a right-side tributary of the River Spree in the north-east of Saxony in the northern Upper Lusatia.

As a natural symbol of the Grinder region Struga is, among other things named after Kito Lorenc ' epic Struga: pictures of the scenery. For those born in loop Sorbian writer Kito Lorenc is the Struga, " as it should be for my little home," a flow, no flow.

Course

The Struga flows through the lignite mining area north of the open pit Nochten and is fully channeled in her entire life. Its catchment area is characterized by present and former mining activity.

The creek rises in the west of white water and flows in a northwesterly direction Trebendorf. The Struga runs for several kilometers in the immediate vicinity of the railway line Berlin- Görlitz along the Trebendorfer municipal boundary, before it flows in the direction of loop after about 1.3 miles. After the flow of the nature reserve Old grinder pond terrain it traverses the site and separates the village from the settlements that emerged only in the first half of the 20th century. A tributary flows into Trebendorf counter Halbendorfer lake, over which the sea can be flooded and lowered.

In Rohnen arrived, it flows north of the town center along the former borders of peasant economies. After the Struga passed the village Mulkwitz, leads to the width of a trench which, Sümpfungswasser leads coming from the open pit Mühlrose Nochten with it. At its mouth the width of the trench is greater than the Struga.

From Mulkwitz flows from the Struga, which is now on a river, in the direction of Neustadt and is headed there in Anlandebecken. When Bach Struga flows north of the village in the Spree river, while the majority of the water is supplied from the Anlandebecken by the Vattenfall Europe Mining AG of the mine water treatment plant in Schwarze Pumpe.

Intermediate loop and the Neustadt Struga is crossed several times by the State Road 130 ( Burgneudorf loop).

Load

Due to its location in a traditionally a mining landscape, the Struga is highly acidic and iron. In GDR times, she was also by industrial effluents, especially from the glass works white water, very dirty.

In loop 2003 pH values ​​from 3.4 to 6.4 were measured in the year. After the inflow of the trench widths in Mulkwitz leading mining effluents with it, the Struga is to be regarded as ecologically destroyed.

Origin of the name

The name origin is generally the once native brook trout attributed, referred to in the Upper Sorbian with pstruha. ( In the Upper Sorbian dialect grinder, h moves ' towards the Lower Sorbian, g'. ) Or Polish struga = ' power ' ( meaning: constant movement of water in a water bed ) would be called. Struža means trickle. Some researchers see the origin of the name, however, different. Paul Kuehnel example, saw the name originates in Old Slavonic struga ( ' wave ', ' flood ') and neuslawischen struga ( ' water pool ', ' stream of water '). With him the name specified in the Sorbian with Struha.