Weißeritz
Mouth of the Weißeritz into the Elbe in Dresden
The Weißeritz ( westslawisch: Bystrica - German: whitewater ), sometimes also called United Weißeritz, is a 13.7 km long tributary of the River Elbe in Saxony. If the "Wild Weißeritz ", their longest river source you count, it is 61 km long.
River
The Weißeritz arises in Freital -Hainsberg from the two source rivers Red White Ritz and Wild Weißeritz. It flows on through the Doehlen basin in the district of Freital and then enters the Plauensche reason. At the end of this Engtals Weißeritzstraße flows through the Dresdner local District Cotta and flows in the local boiler Elbe Valley from the left in the same.
History
By 1570, led work on the fortifications of Dresden to a relocation of a former Weißeritz arm and its confluence with the Elbe. In the course of this work the mouth area this Weißeritz arm at the former Royal Palace disappeared. The broader than digging drainage stretched then westbound to a new mouth and in the area between the Little and Great Ostragehege to Cornelius Gurlitt as "savages Weisseritztalbahn " designated floodplain zone. Furthermore Gurlitt referred to known as Weißeritz mill race running as " Weisseritztalbahn " and refers to works of the Rochus to Lynar .. The alluvial fan of Weißeritz is characterized by him characterizing gravel and passes on his right side under the kennel up to the castle complex approach and extends at its right edge to the Friedrichstadt.
In the 19th century Weißeritzstraße flowed just below the center of Dresden ( approximately at the site of the present bridge Marie ) into the Elbe. In order to obtain land for the railway connection between Dresden Hauptbahnhof and Dresden-Neustadt station the mouth of the Weißeritz was moved. The last part of the lower reaches is now a channel along the Emerich - Ambros - shore. By 1937 the chain in Loebtau Weißeritz millrace substantial amounts of water from.
Former mills
Many mills no longer exist, some are converted and used for other purposes.
- Mehnertmühle ( Hainberg )
- Thode'sche paper mill to Hainberg ( orig. use of water power, but no mill)
- Egermühle ( Deuben )
- Böhmert mill ( Deuben )
- Red Mill ( Döhlen 1937 demolished)
- Angle grinder ( Döhlen )
- (Demolished Potschappel, 2002) Obermuhle
- Hofemühle ( Potschappel )
- Iron Hammer ( Dölzschen ), later King Frederick Augustus Hut ( orig. use of water power, but no mill)
- Wheat mill ( Coschuetz ), also known as copper hammer, powder mill, mill or garrison Kommißmühle referred
- Neumühlestrasse ( Dölzschen ), later also known as brown ash wheat mill ( according to court baker Gottfried Brown ) and Friedrich -August- mill referred
- Königsmühle ( Dölzschen, now conversion to apartments)
- Buschmühlenteich ( Coschuetz ), also Swiss or Grundmühle (1857 demolished during the construction of the basement rocks Brewery )
- Bienert mill ( Hofmühle Plauen)
- Cloth - fulling mill ( Plauen, on Hofmühlengraben 1898 demolished)
Flood of 2002
During the 2002 flood, the Weißeritz in Dresden sought its old river bed through the Weißeritzstraße and flooded the neighborhoods Plauen, Loebtau that lies between the channel and the same Friedrichstadt, the historic Old Town and the main railway station. The floods of Weißeritz were not confined to the lower reaches.
On the whole term of the Red Weißeritz of Altenberg Kipsdorf, Dippoldiswalde, the Malter Dam to Freital, at the Wilder Weißeritz in Tharandt and Freital as well as at the United Weißeritz of Freital to Dresden flood taught at great damage to homes, roads and railways. Particularly affected were the Dresden- Chemnitz, here especially Tharandt and the main station of Dresden, and the Weißeritztalbahn.
Gallery
From the Weißeritz flooded area (2002)
Weißeritz during the flood in August 2002 in Loebtau
Dams immediately upstream of the mouth at normal water level