Lockwitzbach

Lockwitzbach and Lockwitzgrund in Lockwitz

The Lockwitzbach is a low mountain in the Saxon Erzgebirge and lower left tributary of the upper Elbe.

Upon entering the Lockwitzbachs in the district of Dresden Lockwitz spanning the 2002-2005 built, 64 -meter-high Lockwitztalbrücke the Lockwitztal to more than 700 meters.

Name

Lockwitzbach as the word is based on Lockwitz and refers to itself: Lockwitz was first mentioned as " Lucawicz ". " Luca " (cf. tschech. Louka for lawn or meadow land ) means roughly Wiesbach, Lockwitz therefore " village at meadow brook" ( " Wicz " means village).

In the upper watercourse he is sometimes called Grimm cal water. This name refers to the place Reinhardtsgrimma reference and the stream keeps him up to the confluence of Deer Bach southeast of the Wilischbergs.

Course

It rises in a at 570 m above sea level. NN lying headwaters above Oberfrauenwald village with the name Grimm water cal water.

On the 20 km long way north of the creek breaks through twice lower ridges. These are:

  • The Wilischgrund, gap through the Karsdorfer disturbance above Lungkwitz
  • The Lockwitzgrund a Engtalabschnitt on the southern edge of the Elbe valley sink below Burgstädtel. Here he leaves the Kreischaer pelvis, cuts metamorphic rocks of the expiring from southeast to northwest Elbe Valley Slate Mountains, and has at the southern end of Lockwitz in the area of ​​former juice Kelterei Emil Donath contact with the Cambrian granodiorite of Dohna ( about 535 mya old).

Between these there is a sink in the Kreischa is that Kreischaer pool. It is a part of the Doehlen valley with rocks from the Permian.

In Dresden the stream is south of Großzschachwitz taken from an old Elbarm, which he followed up to the Gemarkungsgrenze arbor guest. Here he breaks through with an almost right angle bend its course at the former sawmill a Quaternary deposit at the border between Elbschottern and Pleistocene sands. After a few meters it flows between the Dresden districts Laubegast and Kleinzschachwitz into the Elbe.

In the event of a flood of Lockwitzbach feeds the Niedersedlitzer flood canal, which flows to the more western Gebersbach at Tolkewitz into the Elbe.

Old river courses

At the time of Altpleistozäns and early Elster- glacial period ( from 1.8 to about 0.38 mya ) formed the Lockwitzbach together with the stretcher, silk joke Müglitz, Red and Wild Weißeritz Triebisch and the Freiberger Mulde the United Osterzgebirgsfluss whose traces as relics of mixed gravels at Diera and Naundörfel are still preserved. His Elbe estuary was Althirschstein.

Occupy Old gravel terraces at Kleinluga that the Lockwitzbach was temporarily pushed aside in an easterly direction. In the glacial period he poured a mighty from alluvial gravels in the Elbe Valley. The sands in the estuary are now considered right bank Einspülungen ( Sander ) viewed the meltwater during the Saale glaciation.

Former mills

Many mills no longer exist, some are converted and used for other purposes,

On Lockwitzbach

  • Upper Mill Niederfrauendorf
  • Average mill ( also judge mill) Niederfrauendorf
  • Low Mill Niederfrauendorf
  • Obermuhle Reinhardtsgrimma
  • Mittelmühle Reinhardtsgrimma
  • Castle Mill Reinhardtsgrimma
  • Brettmühle ( Niedermühle ) Reinhardtsgrimma
  • Hirschbachwinkel mill Reinhardtsgrimma
  • Devil's Mill ( grinding mill of the manor Hausdorfer )
  • Lungkwitzer mill Lungkwitz
  • Brand mill Kautzsch
  • Hummel Mill Kreischa
  • Lobeckmühle Lockwitz ( linseed oil mill, later Chocolate Factory )
  • Schmidt mill Lockwitz (later paper mill )
  • Cocoa Mill Lockwitz (also Hintermühle )
  • Obermuhle Lockwitz (later steam mill Blischke )
  • Hänichenmühle ( Mittelmühle ) Lockwitz
  • Niedermühle Lockwitz
  • Dankelmannmühle in Niedersedlitz
  • Old Mill in Großzschachwitz
  • Paper mill ( later Malthouse ) in Kleinzschachwitz
  • Sawmill wood column in Laubegast

On Quohrener Bach

  • Grimm mill in Quohren at Kreischa
  • Upper Mill in Quohren at Kreischa
  • Königsmühle ( Hintermühle ) in Quohren at Kreischa
  • Mittelmühle Kreischa
  • Schenk mill Kreischa
  • Shore mill ( Niedermühle ) Kreischa

On Possendorfer Bach

  • Zscheckwitzmühle ( Zscheckwitz at Kreischa )
  • Hauswald mill Kreischa

Neighboring rivers

  • Southwest: Oelsabach → Red → Weißeritz Weißeritz → Elbe
  • Northwest: Gebersbach → Niedersedlitzer Flutgraben → Elbe
  • East: Müglitz → Elbe

Flood

Above Reinhardtsgrimma he is dammed at high water in flood retention basins Reinhardtsgrimma.

In the city of Dresden, the Lockwitzbach for many parts of the city forms a potential flood risk in the southeast.

Gallery

  • The Lockwitzbach

The Lockwitzbachtal at the Hummel Mill

The road bridge in Dresden Lockwitz

Ducted course in Dresden- Niedersedlitz left the Niedersedlitzer Flutgraben

Last road bridge at the mouth of the Elbe

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