Lößnitzbach

The north-south running Loessnitz Bach until Serkowitz next to the Lößnitzgrundbahn

The Loessnitz Bach (formerly also Zodenbach or shaggy Bach) is a right-side tributary of the Elbe. It flows in the Saxon cities Moritzburg and Radebeul. The name probably derives from altsorbischen licnica ( Forest Brook ), was first mentioned in 1286 in the wine region Kötzschenbroda.

The Loessnitz Bach is 6.7 km long ( from dam outflow ) and overcomes on this route a height difference of 79 meters, as it flows through the Lößnitzgrund, an up to 80 m deep Sohlental ( V-shaped valley ) in the Saxon landscape Loessnitz. It starts initially with the weather mountain water and feeds the Dippelsdorfer pond. For this he steps on the southwestern pond dam from at Dippelsdorf and flows Serkowitz into the Elbe. The Loessnitz Bach is one of two tributaries of the Elbe Valley rechtselbischen boiler. Although He arrives precisely as the " lost water " Fiedler Bach and Rietzschke on the sand terrace, but leads to much water to seep away completely.

Above Serkowitz the Loessnitz stream runs straight and partly above the ambient level. There he formed the inflow to Talmuhle, which had already been mentioned as the oldest mill in the Loessnitz 1337. The Loessnitz Bach has a natural catchment area of 23.4 km ².

The seven water mills

In addition to the ship's water mills in the Elbe and the 1337 documentary mentioned Serkowitzer Thalmühle on the lower reaches of the creek Loessnitz most water mills were on the upper reaches of the same. 1461 the mill Wahnsdorf (later Grundmühle, Lößnitzgrundstraße 37) was ersterwähnt 1538 was followed by the Carlowitz mill (or Bönitzmühle ), on the grounds in 1895 the power station was built Niederlößnitz. There followed in 1547 the first mention of Peter Champion mill ( dairy ). Above the Radebeuler urban area were from 1547 Thilmanns mill ( later Schefflermühle ) and also ersterwähnt 1547, the Ranißmühle (later Emperor mill). By no later than 1586, there was the Jägermühle, today still remembers the street name on the Jägermühle to.