Schleuse (river)

Lock in Schönbrunn

The lock is a roughly 34 -mile river in the district of Hildburghausen in Thuringia. It rises on the Great Dreiherrenstein Mrs. Forest and flows monastery Veßra into the Werra.

Course

The lock is formed from several source streams on the southwest slope of the Big Three Mr. Stein, the main source is called evil lock. The lock initially flows south where it feeds the dam Schönbrunn in the upper reaches. Two kilometers south of the dam, they reached the place Schönbrunn (municipality lock reason), now flows in a southwesterly direction through the towns lock reason and Nahe -Waldau. On the border with Schleusingen followed by another dam, the lake Ratscher. The lock is now leading the northwest of the city Schleusingen, who once gave her name. After another eight kilometers flows into the river with Convent Veßra into the Werra.

Tributaries

The river system of the lock sets in a fan shape around the south-western Thuringian forest and reached the east and the north-western Thuringian Slate Mountains. Here, the mountain range is distinctively divided by the river branches into individual ridge.

Below is an eastward ordered clockwise from the west lineup that also takes into account higher order inflows. For an order in the flow direction of the lock table is to arrange according to watercourses indicators ( DGKZ ).

The catchment area of Trenkbach and fork is less than 10 km ², all other streams listed higher.

Main river question

A striking feature of the flow chart is that - strictly according to hydrological aspects - often blurring the boundaries between the main and tributary:

• At the confluence with the river Werra, the lock has a slightly larger catchment area than the Werra itself.
• Even more clearly, the projection of the lock at the outflow ( MQ ): While the Werra at the level Ebenhards ( 220.8 km ² catchment area ) only 2,60 m³ / s promotes - which, extrapolated to the catchment area upstream of the mouth, 3.2 m³ / s would, certainly less real - promotes the lock at the level Rappelsdorf (9 km upstream of the mouth, 256 km ² ) is already 4.50 m³ / s About half of this amount of water is, however, supported by the Nahe, on the level Schleusingen (114 sq km, 1 km above the mouth ) 2.20 m³ / s provides and also in the catchment area with the lock catches up above the mouth. The proximity in turn has been doubled by the mouth of the alder about. The alder has continued above doubled by the mouth of the Breitenbach Upstream from the Breitenbach's the Vesser has the outflow of the river more than doubled.

Landscape structure

The valleys of the Sluice inflows divided Thuringian Forest and Schiefergebirge as follows in back ( from northwest to southeast ):

• Erletal Eagle Mountain massif (up to 892 m, horseshoe -shaped, with Breitenbach inside )

• High Beech - back ( to 749 m)

• Perennials head back ( to 784 m, with Mrs. Forest)

• Dam Palace and Narrow basic head back ( to 765 m)

• Sulfur head back ( to 774 m)

• Simmersberg - back ( to 781 m)

The boundary between the Thuringian Forest and Thuringian Slate Mountains extends approximately over the (already counted for Slate Mountains ) Medium Schleusetal, upriver extended by the Neubrunntal.