Freiberger Mulde

Freiberger Mulde in Conradsdorf with bridge from 1501

The Freiberger Mulde (or Eastern trough ) is the right, 124 km long river source of the trough, whose catchment area is of 2,981 km ² in the Czech Republic and Germany (mean Saxony). It is equipped with a water flow of 35.3 m³ / s larger than the other source river, the river Mulde (or Western trough ) with a water flow of about 26.4 m³ / s, which is, however, the longer the source river.

Course

The Freiberger Mulde rises in the Czech Republic on the main ridge of the Ore Mountains at two kilometers southeast of Moldava ( Vltava ) as Moldavský brook ( Moldavian Bach) at an altitude of 850 m above sea level. NN vrch between the hilltops Sklařský vrch and Oldřišský. The source is only 2.5 kilometers away from the source of the savages Weißeritz and only one kilometer from the headwaters of the Floeha.

Flowing in a westerly direction, they reached after about five kilometers German territory. Holzhau, the first German city on the river, lies at an altitude of about 600 m above sea level. NN, Rechenberg- Bienenmuhle at an altitude of about 545 meters. NN. The valley is deepened to 150 to 200 m over the surrounding heights and at first gradually turns to the northwest and then almost exactly northward. In Mulda open from the left of the Chemnitz Bach and the Bach Helbig villages, in Lichtenberg from the right Gimmlitz. The valley is steep and narrow in the rest; between Freiberg and Halsbrücke it is still sunk almost 100 m in the plateau of the north gradually sloping Ore Mountains. In the old Ore mining landscape around Freiberg, this trough valley is home to numerous cultural monuments, especially technical nature. The steep slopes are almost completely occupied by semi-natural mixed forest. After the trough Weissenborn, Muldenhütten and Hilber village has happened, it reaches its Beinamensgeberin Freiberg.

Below Freiberg and Halsbrücke reach from left, first the Münzbach and Großschirma small Waltersdorfer the creek waters. From right then flows south-east of the Siebenlehn Bobritzsch. After the sharp bend westward at Nossen flows through the trough Roßwein and chub and takes as the first major tributary to the coming of the left Striegis.

In Schweta opens a her biggest, she aptly to water management to more than double tributary, the Zschopau. The now stately river passes Leisnig and unites north of Colditz and Zschadraß in Sermuth with the Mulde to the United depression.

Others

There is geological evidence that the lower valley of the Freiberger Mulde a previous course of today's same traces, it occupied along the ice edge during older glaciations.