Thulba

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The Thulba is a good 27 km long, right or northern tributary of the Franconian Saale.

Name

The name " Thulba " derives from the Indo-European word dulbo, the dig, scoop out means from. The river was the community Oberthulba and the place Thulba their names.

Course

The Thulba occurs south of the Black Mountains and north of the town Geroda in an environment of forest and meadow land area. After their headwaters have south of the upper mill combined, the Thulba begins its generally oriented to the southwest flow direction. Below the monastery mill it reaches Geroda, where there are two more mills and flows from the right Sembach. They passed the jerk mill, northwest of Birkenfeld a small sewage treatment plant and south of the Fixed fountain. The Thulba now meanders through a deep valley. In Burkard Roth- Oehrberg drove past the Oehrbachsmühle. This section describes the Thulba is also called Oehrbach. After passing south of Oehrberg another wastewater treatment plant, the Oehrbachtal narrowed significantly. The Thülbingsbach flows coming from the right northwest of Oberthulba - Hassenbach, which flows around the south. The following are the nut - mill New - mill and the mill carpenter, in which the Thulba reached the eastern outskirts of Oberthulba. Your water supply is there, reinforced by the coming of the left, about 9.1 km long Lauter, whose western flow direction Thulba the south of the village for a few kilometers takes to trans- European road 45. Below the Reithermühle northwest of Thulba (part of Oberthulba ) their flow to the right of the Heeggraben and Ljubljana and a small lake with camping the (temporarily dry ) Heiner ditch. Below the Upper Erthals mill it is reached on the left hand from the last parallel Rumbach. South of Obererthal (part of Hammelburg ) branches of the Herbert's Mill at Untererthal ( mutton castle ) in the Thulba flowing back from a mill race, in turn opens the Else digging into the. Below the mill the Kesse Thulba flows near the Kläränlage in the west of mutton castle in the Franconian Saale.

Water Quality

The Thulba is a body of water, the biological water quality ( saprobic ) is classified as moderately polluted ( water quality class II) ( 2001). The overflow is in a natural state in the lower reaches, however, some flow paths and Auenabschnitte are affected.

Creature

The Thulbatal is characterized by sprawling Hochstaudenfluren, moist mowing, and wetlands and is home to high quality habitats. Valuable dry locations and forests are located on the often calcareous hillsides with old hardwood stands (mainly alder ). The Auebereiche along the meandering Thulba provide habitat for many animal and plant species.

Fauna

The near-shore areas of the Thulba floodplain are typical habitat for insects and birds like Demoiselle, Large Marsh Grasshopper and kingfisher. In the Thulba grayling, brown trout, brook lamprey, stone loach, Barbe, minnow, perch, gudgeon, dace, bullhead, nose, rainbow trout and roach occur, occasionally also of noble crayfish.

Flora

The wet meadow areas and the dry, chalky hillsides are site specialized plant species such as:

• Headwaters: ( wood cranesbill, blueberry, red campion and green alder)
• Underflow: (Common Pasque and Apennine Rockrose ) Roßkümmel
• Whole river: ( -Pod Lupine, Indian Balsam, Giant Hogweed and common salt swaths )