Selbitz (river)
| Selbitz | |
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 View of the Selbitz Valley from the Hagen mill at Schauenstein | |
| Location | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Bavaria |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | NW of Wüstenselbitz |
| • coordinates | 50°13′17″N 11°41′14″E / 50.221447°N 11.687194°E |
| • elevation | 650 m (2,130 ft) |
Lichtenberg, Issigau, Blankenstein | |
The Selbitz is a river of Bavaria and Thuringia, Germany.
It is a left-bank tributary of the river
In the village of Hölle, a district of Naila on the left bank of the Selbitz, a 262-metre-deep (860 ft) mineral spring, the Höllensprudel, has been bored. From the mouth of the
The footbridge between the Bavarian hamlet of Untereichenstein and Blankenstein is also the end of the Thuringian Rennsteig, a historical border path.
The river is 36.6 kilometres (22.7 mi) long and falls a total of 236 metres (774 ft) during its course. The name "Selbitz" probably comes from the Slavic word zelenovica and would therefore mean something like "green stream".
At almost any point the level of the Selbitz could rise theoretically without causing any problems, because it is mostly surrounded by meadows and in the town of Naila flows through a natural, but reinforced, channel between the station and the bridge by the football pitch. This enables the river to grow to more than twice its width during times of thaw, storms or heavy rain. From 2 to 4 December 2007 this could be observed. The area through which the river runs is surrounded to the left and right by strips of grassland that are used as meadows for sheep-grazing during times of the year when there is no snow.
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Source of the Selbitz -
Railway bridge over the Selbitz at Naila -
Weir in the Selbitz at Naila station
See also
References
- ^ a b Complete table of the Bavarian Waterbody Register by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (xls, 10.3 MB)
Literature
- Johann Kaspar Bundschuh (1802), "Selbitz", Geographisches Statistisch-Topographisches Lexikon von Franken (Geographical Statistical-Topographic Lexicon of Franconia) (in German), vol. 5: S–U, Ulm: Verlag der Stettinischen Buchhandlung, OCLC 833753112, 790364328
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