Götzinger Achen

Götzinger Ache in Fridolfing

The Götzinger Achen or Götzinger Ache is a river which flows from the Lake Waging and ends in the area of ​​the city community Tittmoning in the Traunstein district, in the Salzach. The name goes back to the village Götzing, which is located on the Götzinger Ache. The mean discharge rate is about 3 m³ / s A special feature is that the plot is often still fixed by the mean water line. Popular the Götzinger Ache is at sports fishermen who find all the fish of the barbel region here.

Geography

The Götzinger Ache runs through the municipalities of petting, Kirchanschöring, Fridolfing and Tittmoning in Rupertiwinkel, while it flows, inter alia, to / through the places

• Petting
• Unverzug level ( measuring point number: 18.683 million )
• Kirchanschöring
• Lackenbach
• Eizing
• Götzing
• Fridolfing - Strohhof
• Kelchham

History

Until the 20th century the power of Götzinger Ache was used to drive water mills. In the hamlet Zeifen, Gde Kirchanschöring, is the eponymous former, now under preservation Mühlenhof Zeifen, in the immediate vicinity of the course of the Millstream is still recognizable, who had cut off the flux loop. In Eizing Fridolfing at the mill of the Aicher family still recalls this tradition, but the mill is no longer driven by water power. Below the hamlet Spöck, Gde petting, located - near the sewage treatment plant - a small dam where a turbine generates electricity still is. Another, lying just before Kirchanschöring small reservoir is used as a water reservoir for a power plant in Lebenau, the water is supplied through a duct which opens directly into the Salzach. In Kirchanschöring branches as Mühlbach to the adjoining district with the eponymous spell mill an additional channel from whose water is returned to the Ache.

1867 the outflow of Lake Waging, ie the beginning of the Götzinger Ache was lowered to mainly to gain land on the south and south-east edge of the lake; while the water level of Lake Waging decreased by 2 meters.

Aue

With the exception of forest and floodplain sections ecologically intact shoreline is only available in individual sections. Often to the edge of the Götzinger Ache is built or ordered the boxes. The shoreline then often limited to the embankment. However, the Götzinger Ache is distinguished in the field of Kirchanschöringer Valley by particularly close to nature and circumstances of aueähnliche. From Fridolfing to Salzachaue the floodplain of Götzinger Ache was eliminated by diking and straightening. From Kelchham the Götzinger Ache flows in a backwater of the River Salzach.

Economic use

In Lebenau, a hamlet in the southern municipality of Fridolfing, there is a run of the E.ON Bayern hydroelectric power plant, which is of two channels, one of them from the Götzinger Ache fed. The lower water flows directly back into the Salzach and not return to the Götzinger Ache.

Flood disasters

With the construction of flood dam on the river Salzach the risk of flooding of the villages and hamlets located in the Salzach Valley was largely eliminated. The flood risk was now "only" part of a backlog of Götzinger Ache. In the community Fridolfing there have been repeated after heavy rains to a leakage of the village stream and the Götzinger Ache. With simultaneous backwater by the Salzach this resulted repeatedly flood disasters as in the years 1920, 1922, 1940, 1959, 1960 and 1985. The largest flood disaster of the 20th century on the Götzinger Ache with devastating damage occurred on the 8th - 10th Juli 1954. After days of heavy rains the creek occurred at low angles above the shore, collected in Fridolfinger village stream and flowed through a rushing river the place. A large part Fridolfings was under water, in addition to the building and the road damage lying in the upper reaches bridge in Zeifen and another bridge was completely destroyed.