Glan (river)

Informative stone in Glanpark in Klagenfurt

The Glan to Klagenfurt

The Glan flows into the Gurk

The Glan ( f, Slovenian Glina, Glana, Hłana ) is a river in Lower Carinthia. It rises in the Ossiacher Tauern in the community Techelsberg and initially flows eastward, Feldkirchen grazing by mountain range and the Glan valley, whose center is the site Glanegg.

In Sankt Veit an der Glan it turns south to flow through the customs field and stripes Klagenfurt. In Ebenthal she takes to the brook Glanfurt ( Sattnitz ) on the water of the lake and flows a few kilometers further into the well twice as rich in water Gurk. Your drain is at the mouth of an average of 10 m³ / s

Their length is from the origin ( Klammbach mouth ) to the confluence with the Gurk 64.329 km, the catchment area amounts to 826.51 km ².

Matter of priority by the particle board factory Funder Industrie GmbH in Sankt Veit Glan was formerly the bottom of the most polluted river in Carinthia. Now, however, she is rehabilitated.

Meanwhile, the city's sewage Sankt Veit an der Glan be clarified together with those of the communities Glanegg, Liebenfels, Mrs. Stein and St. Georgen aL in the wastewater treatment plant at the eastern end of the village of Glandorf biologically. The treated effluent is discharged into the Glan.

Name

The name " Glan " comes from the Celtic word meaning " bright, vivid, shiny, flowing"; also was Glan Glanos or the name of a Celtic water god.

With a ford der Glan, a " Glanfurt ", they tried to explain the name of the city of Klagenfurt. Today it is the conviction of the city name come from slov. Cviljovec, which translates as " place on (or in) the water".

With the name of Glan also no connection is also of several kilometers south running Wörthersee drain with the official designation Glanfurt, commonly called since the 16th century popularly Sattnitz after the nearby mountain range, while in the writing rooms which derives from the Celtic old Name Lanquart ( = crooked river ) on Langfart, long ford eventually became Glanfurt.