Loquitz

The catchment area of ​​Loquitz - the Sormitz as the eastern main river is also highlighted.

The Loquitz is a 33 km long tributary of the Saale in Bavaria and Thuringia.

Origin of the name

The origin of the name is not known with absolute certainty. Probably derives its name from the Slavic Lukavica ago. The Loquitz would be the Wiesbach. The Eindeutschung would have to be carried out relatively late in this case. It is also the former presence of a pond ( slaw lokva ). This is questionable, however, since other same places as Lockwitz or Lockwitzbach u are assigned a.

Course

It rises at the transition between the Thuringian Slate Mountains and Franconian Forest in about 630 meters below the shale Lehesten city, close to the Rennsteig in the district Saalfeld- Rudolstadt. Then it flows in a northerly direction a narrow, deep valley, which also extend the B85 and the Franconian Forest Railway Saalfeld- Kronach. On Ludwig the Bavarian side town is the first major site for the source. Below Ludwigstadt the Loquitz winds in an S- bend, past the Lauenstein castle and the Thuringian waiting across the border to Thuringia. There, the place Probstzella lies with the former border station and the House of the People. Now she continues to flow through the wooded Thuringian Slate Mountains in a gorge -like valley before its only major tributary, the Sormitz, receives from the right at Hockeroda. About two kilometers north of Hockeroda in Eichicht below the castle Eichicht that Loquitz falls in about 230 meters left in the hall.

500 m before the confluence with the Saale is taken over a ditch water for the calibration lights may Loquitzmühle. The ditch empties 70m above the Loquitz estuary in the Saale.