Sutla

Sotla/Sutla- Coomb, gora between the slopes Cesargradska and Zelenjak, northwest of Klanjec / Croatia

The Sotla ( German Sottl, Sottla or Sattelbach, Croatian Sutla ) is a 90 km long left tributary of the Sava River, forming almost over its entire history, from the origin to the mouth, the Slovenian- Croatian border.

Geography

Course

The Sotla originates on the local area of scattered settlement in the municipality Log Rogatec / Rohitsch in Slovenia. The source area is located on the southern slopes, below the two highest hilltops, Maceljska gora 718 m UEA and Veliki Belinovec 717 m above sea level. A., of the wooded border mountains Macelj / Matzel to Croatia.

From the origin of the water first flows in a southerly direction and goes to some inflows. After 6 km, the village Trlično 260 m UEA, the creek has covered 420 meters in altitude. From here the river meanders, sometimes in larger loops, through a varied hill country to the west. About 3 km after the former market town Rogatec / Rohitsch 220 m UEA changes the waters run its course and flows gently to the south until it Podčetrtek / Windisch Landsberg, the provincial capital in the upper Sotlatal.

From here, the river suggests a slight south-easterly direction and pulls in more or less extensive meanders through a hilly vineyard landscape that has been called since onset of tourism twenty years ago Sotelsko or Posotelje. Below the village Kunšperk / Königsberg, the river passes through a 2 km long, through both wooded ridge, 507 m Zelenjak UEA and Cesargradska gora 509 m UEA educated, narrow gorge.

After the gorge leave applies the Sotla its course to the south and flows calmly and slowly the wine landscape Bizeljsko / Wisell. She will be accompanied by scrubby bushes, slender poplars and gnarled willows. About 2 km south of the town Rigonce / Riegelsdorf, in the municipality of Brežice / Rann, opens the Sotla at an altitude of 135 m UEA. into the Sava.

Catchment and tributaries

The catchment area of ​​the Sotla is about 581 square kilometers. Of this amount, Slovenia 451 square kilometers and 130 square kilometers of Croatia.

The main Bachzuläufe (Bach = slow Potok. ) And tributaries from the headwaters to the mouth are:

• Rights inflows from Slovenia: Žahenberški Potok, Draganja Odenca, Teršnica, Ločnica, Mestinjščica, Olimski Potok, Potok Golobinjski, Buča, Bistrica, Bizeljski Potok, Dramlja, Sica, negot.

• Left inflows from Croatia: Brezna, Skoritna.

History

The river was first named on 15 April 1016 a document issued by Emperor Henry II in Bamberg deed of gift, to Count William of Sanngau, called Zôtle. Emperor Conrad II confirmed the Count Wilhelm this donation on December 30, 1028 in Augsburg, where the river is mentioned as Zontlae. Accordingly, the limit has already been created at the time Sottla. First, between the marks at the Sann, as part of the Holy Roman Empire and the Croatian Kingdom, later the Kingdom of Hungary.

After the death of Count William in 1036, the country fell to the Sottla as heir to his wife Hemma and through them the lands came in the year 1043 for facilities at the convent of Gurk, or to the later established there Diocese of Gurk.