Saalach

Saalachstrasse in Bad Reichenhall

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The Saalachstrasse outdated, also play stream or Salzburgische Saale, is a 103 km long tributary of the Salzach in Salzburg ( Austria ) and the Berchtesgaden area on the southern edge of Germany.

Running and landscape

The river rises in the Austrian province of Salzburg as Saalachstrasse in the Kitzbühel Alps on Hochtorsee below the 2,178 m high Gamshag. From there it flows initially in an easterly direction through the first Glemmtal by Hinterglemm, then Saalbach - Maishofen.

In Maishofen the Saalachstrasse bends only 2 km north of Lake Zell towards the north, forms a characteristic Talwasserscheide that separates the pool from their other Talungsabschnitt Zeller, the Saalfelden basin. From here up to the foothills of the Alps, their valley Saalachtal is called, where Upper Saalachtal the Pinzgauer, and lower Saalachtal says the German share. You now flows, accompanied by the dog 's Stone ( Salzburg Slate Alps) in the east and from the main road 311 to Saalfelden, where the coming of the West Leoganger Ache and coming from the east Urslau open out.

After Saalfelden it occurs in a narrow gorge cut, between Berchtesgaden Alps in the east and Leogang and Lofer Steinberg mountains and the southeastern massifs of the Chiemgau Alps in the west, a. The deeply incised breakthrough forms part beautiful flat Talungen and basin, partly close Talpässe. The Saalachstrasse happened here Weissbach bei Lofer and Lofer, Lofer from accompanied by the B 178, it proceeds toads. Below this village and only a few hundred meters below the stone pass on the watercourse occurs in Melleck, a hamlet in the Bavarian village of Schneizlreuth, the border to Germany.

From then on, it forms almost three kilometers in length for the first time a piece of the German -Austrian border and then along the B 21, the northwestern border of the Biosphere Reserve Berchtesgaden. These following compared to the course of the Salzach inner-Austrian connection between Pinzgau and Flachgau much shorter distance is referred to as Little German Eck. Here it flows through Schneizlreuth where the Schwarzbach opens, and the pent -elongated Saalachsee. With the water from the Saalachsee both the Saalachstrasse power plant as well as the 2005 directly attached to the dam residual water power plant is operated. In the area of ​​Crete bridge the flow channel of the Saalachstrasse power plant and the river bed and reunite the river flows through the Nonnerau and Saalachau further to the northeast.

At the northwestern end of the Berchtesgaden Alps near Bad Reichenhall, the valley opens again for Reichenhall basin between Lattengebirge in the south and Hochstaufen in the north, and then enters an in Großgmain Flachgau in the Salzburg - free Lassinger Basin and the Alpine foothills.

A little further north to Piding it crosses the A 8 From there it forms along the ( German ) B 20 once a 11 km long section of the German - Austrian border, where it flows northeastward over Wals to Freilassing and just east of the urban area or north of Salzburg, opens at Saalachspitz in Salzburg- Liefering into the Salzach. The confluence is located directly at the border to 408 m.

History

For the production of salt in the Saline Bad Reichenhall the Saalachstrasse played an important role over a thousand years. From the lands in present-day Austria, mainly the Pinzgau Tyrol and the Saline moved since the time of 790-800 the wood for firing the Siedeöfen. The water of the Saalachstrasse were here used for timber rafting of material from the hall Forestry. In the area of ​​Luitpold weir and Luitpold Bridge in the upper town of Bad Reichenhall, the wood was conducted on large drift spaces in the area of ​​today's new Saline. The street names Fürschlachtweg, In iron- base, base and at the Spitz On the ground reminders of the drift paths and storage areas from this time. The drift was abandoned until 1911, when the Siedeöfen were fired in the saline with coal. At this time, the dam at Kibling was begun with the construction.

Tributaries

Larger and scenic tributaries of the Saalachstrasse are:

• Right of Vogelalpgraben at Lengau (municipality Saalbach -Hinterglemm )
• Right Schwarzache in Hinterglemm
• Right laborers Bach at Hochwart (municipality Saalbach -Hinterglemm )
• Left Harhamer creek near the town of Saalfelden, district Uttenhofen
• Left and right of the Leogang Ache Urslaubach of Maria Alm in Saalfelden - Uttenhofen
• Right Dießbach with the Dießbachstausee ( mouth near this creek, water discharge about 2 km upstream )
• Right Weissbach Weissbach at the Seisenbergklamm
• Left Loferbach (also Strubache, Strub Bach, Haselbach, Griesel Bach) with Strubtal and Pillerseetal from Lake Piller
• Right Innerbach the Kniepass with Inner gorge in riding in toads
• Left Unkenbach ( at the level Schütterbad / toads ), from Sun Mountain
• Left Steinbach at the level Melleck / Steinpaß, from Sonntagshorn
• Left Weissbach bei Schneizlreuth
• Right Schwarzenbach at lower Jettenberg, from the Schwarzbachwacht
• Seebach left in the Nonner Au in Bad Reichenhall
• Right grave creek in the Marzoller Au
• Right Weissbach over grave creek in the Marzoller Au
• Left Stoißer Ache in Piding

In the lower reaches accompanied on the Austrian side of Mühlbach ( Walser Bach ), a rejection of Käferheim about Wals, Siezenheim, Kleßheim, and Rott, the Saalachstrasse; opens on the left ( Bavarian ) side of the hammer Auer Mühlbach, a diversion from the hammer brickwork weir which branches as Hammerbach in Ainring and as free Lassinger Mühlbach in Freilassing back into the Saalachstrasse.