MÃ¼nzbach (river)

The Münzbach between Erzengler and Rothbächer pond

The Münzbach (regional commonly referred to as the Münzbach ) or Loßnitzbach is a 22 km long left tributary of the Freiberger Mulde in Saxony.

Course

It rises about 3 km south of Brand-Erbisdorf in the forest low free about 535 m above sea level. Even in this forest he supplied several art ditches, or takes their water. It flows in a northeasterly direction and input to 495 m NN Erzengler the pond and two smaller ponds art. In the western part of the to Weissenborn / Erzgeb. belonging to the place Berthelsdorf it passes the street fire Erbisdorf - Weissenborn and the railway line Freiberg - Brand-Erbisdorf to einzumünden in the Great Cabin Pond at about 445 m above sea level. This leaves the Münzbach again in a northerly direction, passing the Langenberg district gutter.

In the city of Freiberg Münzbach is plumbed since the 19th century. The beginning of the piping is located south of Sachsen -Franken - Magistrale about 400 m above sea level. The Münzbach does not constitute the main outfall sewer Freiberger, since the year 2003, the stages of renovation Münzbachsammelkanals for the separation of the stream and the wastewater in the (mixed water). After 2.5 km at an altitude of about 375 m above sea level it leaves the underground flow to the north, after serving as only significant tributary to also cased, has received coming from the left Goldbach and flows through the Freiberg district Loßnitz and ends after about 5 km, between neck and bridge Rothenfurth near the Altväterbrücke at an altitude of 295 m above sea level in the Freiberger Mulde. In the last section he runs again to about 300 m below a circa 30 -meter high, the valley of Münzbaches abriegelnden heap. The Münzbach overcomes a difference in altitude of about 240 m.