Striegis

Bridge over the Great Striegis at Pappendorf

The Striegis is a left, a total of 48.1 km long tributary of the Freiberger Mulde in Saxony. Your overflow is referred to the confluence with the leading- left of river Small Striegis a Grand Striegis. The name derives from Wendish Stregawa what rushing river means forth.

Course

The Striegis is including the Great Striegis 48.1 km long and includes a catchment area of ​​283.37 km ², where she negotiates a gradient of 366 m height difference. The flowing from left Small Striegis has a 69.90 km ² large catchment area and a slope of 233 meters to a total length of 23.8 km. The Striegis then flows, the place Böhrigen, community Striegistal passing, in a northerly direction and empties after a further 11 kilometers at Niederstriegis in the Freiberger Mulde.

Large Striegis

The Great Striegis has several small streams swelling in and around Langenau at altitudes from 500 m to 546 m above sea level. NN. It flows in a northwesterly direction initially by Linda, where it picks up the Erbisdorfer Bach, then Oberschona, where it picks up the Upper Reichenbach Bach, followed by Wegefarth where the screen creek flows. Between Linda and Oberschona situated on the right bank of the mouth holes of the new blessing of God Stolln and Thelersberger Stolln who served the dewatering of mines in the mining district Brander and especially the dehydrated Himmelsfürst treasure trove.

In the course of the valley is increasingly narrow and deep cut into the plateau of the lower Erzgebirge; the valley slopes are almost always passed with near-natural mixed forest. Above Bräunsdorf opens left of the coming of Wingendorf Kemnitz creek. In Goßberg the originating within Langhennersdorf and Seifersdorf flowing Perzebach (also Berzebach, short Berze called ) opens into the Great Striegis. After passing of Pappendorf it flows in Berber village, after a run of 36 kilometers in length, with the little Striegis together.

Small Striegis

From its source in the City Beautiful Small Striegis flows northward through Langenstriegis, takes up the right side, from Eulendorf, coming Eulenbach and flows in the further course Berthelsdorf, the former county town Hainichen and last Crumbach. From here the river sought in northeast directed, windungsreichem and narrow valley of the Great Striegis to, it takes the next Ottendorf Pahlbach on and is crossed at Schlegel on the high bridge of the motorway 4.