Blambach

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The Blambach is about five kilometers long tributary of the Schwarza on the northern edge of the Thuringian Slate Mountains. Despite its short length, it flows through different vegetation types and is especially worth mentioning because of a gorge in its lower reaches. Due to the special and encountered only here the expression to be found in the river bed of rhyolite rock that geologists also Blambach - rhyolite is called.

Course

The Blambach rises on the eastern edge of the Barigauer height about 600 m above sea level. NN. The Blambach then first flows in an easterly direction, past Oberhain after Unterhain. Here is a deeper valley, but the environment is still not wooded. In the valley here and the road from Oberhain runs to Allendorf. On Beerberg the valley makes a bend and the flow direction changes to South East. Here is a 1.5 km long starts, 150 meter deep gorge, the Blambachtal. To the right of the 460 meter high mountain goats, left the 493 -meter high mountain rises summer. Both are forested. The Blambach crosses under at the end of the gorge the Schwarzatal web before he seat in village at an altitude of about 320 m above sea level. NN from the left opens into the Schwarza.

Water management

Normally, the Blambach has only a low water supply. But with heavy rainfall in the area of ​​Barigauer height it can also lead flood, which recently dished due to the narrow range in Schwarzatal seat village in 1981 greater damage. On the other hand, it may occur in dry summers, that the brook falls completely dry, as last happened in 2003.

• Saale river system
• River in Europe
• River in Thuringia
• Waters in the district Saalfeld- Rudolstadt
• Waters in the Thuringian Forest Nature Park