Wild Weißeritz

Valley of Wild Weißeritz in Tharandt

The Wild Weißeritz is next to the Red Weißeritz one of the two sources of Weißeritz.

Course

The Wild Weißeritz springs on the Czech Ore Mountains in Nove Mesto ( New Town) in Moldava as Divoká Bystřice at an altitude of 823 meters. The source is just 800 meters from the headwaters of the Floeha and just 1.5 km from the Freiberger Mulde. In Rehefeld she then passes on German territory. Until its association with the Red Weißeritz she travels a barrel length of 52.5 kilometers and has a slope of 642 meters. Its catchment area covers a total of 162.7 square kilometers.

In contrast to Red Weißeritz the Wild Weißeritz flows through predominantly low populated area in the upper and middle reaches. Only in the lower reaches it passes through the city Tharandt, shortly after she joins in Freital -Hainsberg with the Red Weißeritz to the ( United ) Weißeritz.

After a devastating flood in 1897 had the valleys of the Weisseritz rivers and lying to them settlements, in particular Freital and the southern suburbs of Dresden devastated, an action plan was drawn up and implemented for flood protection in the early 20th century. This resulted in the sparsely populated middle reaches of the River 1908-1914 for the construction of the dam Klingenberg, then from 1926 to 1931 the Lehnmühle Dam followed. Both barrages also serve the drinking water supply and to a lesser extent, the electric power generation.

Places on the Wilde Weißeritz

• Rehefeld Fence House
• Seyde
• Schönfeld
• Klingenberg
• Obercunnersdorf
• Dorfhain
• Noble crown
• Tharandt
• Freital -Hainsberg

Tributaries of the savages Weißeritz

• Fir River
• Weissbach ( Wild Weißeritz )
• Röthenbach ( Lattenbach )
• Klingenberg Bach
• Seerenbach
• Tiefer Grund ( Tharandter Forest)
• Wide base ( Tharandter Forest)
• Schloitzbach
• Past Ritz Bach

• Small Warmbach
• Heck River
• Schoenfelder Bach
• Ammelsdorfer Bach
• Henner villages Bach
• Obercunnersdorfer Bach
• Small Stieflitzbach
• Big Stieflitzbach
• Höckenbach

Former mills

In 1902, there were about 48 mills. Many mills no longer exist, some are converted and used for other purposes.

• Kalkofner mill (demolished in 1945 )
• Forstmühle Rehefeld
• Herklotzmühle ( Rehefeld )
• Kempen mill
• Kirsten mill ( demolished in 1971 )
• Thiele mill ( Schönfeld )
• Upper Mill ( Schönfeld )
• White Mill ( Schönfeld )
• Biedermann mill ( Schönfeld )
• Grain mill ( Ammelsdorf )
• Lehnmühle ( Hartmann village, torn below the dam, 2007)
• Röthenbacher mill ( grinding mill demolished in 1958 and saw mill demolished in 1960 )
• Talmuhle ( Beerwalde ) ( demolished in 1964 )
• Beer Walder mill (1939 demolished)
• Wood mill ( in the area of ​​today's Klingenberg dam )
• Hintermühle ( Klingenberg )
• Front mill ( Klingenberg )
• Mahnsmühle ( Klingenberg )
• Pants mill ( Obercunnersdorf )
• Angle grinder ( Dorfhain )
• Stübemühle ( Höckendorf )
• Barthmühle ( Dorfhain )
• Stone mill ( Dorfhain )
• Niedermühle or ox mill ( Dorfhain )
• Schweizermühle ( Tharandt )
• Past Ritz mill ( Coßmannsdorf, destroyed in 1945 )
• Board or oven mill ( Hainberg )