Kamenice (Labe)

The Kamenice Edmund Gorge

The Kamenice ( German Kamnitz ) is a right tributary of the Elbe River in northern Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It rises in the Lusatian Mountains in Bohemia on the ridge of the Stožec ( Schöber, 665 m ) near the Jedlova Zastavka station ( source height 595 m). The largest tributary is the Chřibská Kamenice ( Kreibitzbach ). In Hřensko ( Herrnskretschen ) on the Czech- German border, it flows into the Elbe. The name is on the Slavic adjective Kamenný ( German: stony) due and means something like river with stony bed. Even earlier was the Kamenice for their abundance of fish, especially salmon, are known. The water power was used to power mills, paper mills and sawmills, there were bleach courts operated and floated wood.

Course

The Kamenice flows into the pond HRANIČNÍ fishpond, she leaves again in the direction Kytlice. Just after the village Srbská Kamenice ( Windisch- Kamnitz ) it unites with the Chřibská Kamenice and enters into the sandstone cliffs of the Bohemian Switzerland. The narrow and deep canyons are called Kamnitzklammen. The Ferdinand Gorge ( Ferdinandova soutěska ) is the first, and 1945 were possible in their boat trips. At the end of the gorge, before the influx of will certainly amaze you, it is spanned by the oldest reinforced concrete bridge in Bohemia and reached the ruins of the mill base ( Dolský Mlyn ), a once popular tourist restaurant. It follows the Wild Gorge ( Divoká soutěska ) located at Mezná Edmund Gorge ( Edmundova soutěska, after 1945 Ticha soutěska ) is connected. In these two Kamnitzklammen the Kamenice is dammed and there are boat trips possible. Previously, these reservoirs were used, as well as the. At the Kirnitzsch, as a water reservoir for timber floating

The absolute slope on the 37.5 km long road up to the same amounts to 13.41 per thousand. The Kamnitz flows through on the way to the west of the city Kamenice ( Bohemian Kamnitz ). Tributaries of the Kamnitz are the Lísecký creek, the creek Pryskský that Chřibská Kamenice that will certainly amaze and Dlouhá Bela.