Obere Schleuse
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The Obere Schleuse in Hinterhermsdorf is a barrage system on the German-Czech border river of Kirnitzsch
and impounds the water over a length of 700 metres. It was originally a facility for timber rafting. There are boat rides on the reservoir today during the summer months. At the boat landing point the water depth is 1 metre; by the dam it is 4 metres. The water temperature rarely climbs above 8 °C in summer. In the winter months, during when there are no boat trips, the water is not impounded and the Kirnitzsch flows in its original river bed.
Kirnitzsch
The Kirnitzsch, in Bohemia also called the Kirnischt , is a right tributary of the River Elbe, which passes through the Czech Republic and the German Free State of Saxony.- Geography :...
and impounds the water over a length of 700 metres. It was originally a facility for timber rafting. There are boat rides on the reservoir today during the summer months. At the boat landing point the water depth is 1 metre; by the dam it is 4 metres. The water temperature rarely climbs above 8 °C in summer. In the winter months, during when there are no boat trips, the water is not impounded and the Kirnitzsch flows in its original river bed.
Sources
- Karl Möckel: 100 Jahre Bootsfahrt Obere Schleuse, Klamm: 1879 - 1979, Hinterhermsdorf 1979
- Joachim Wünsch: Die Obere Schleuse bei Hinterhermsdorf. in: Sächsische Heimatblätter Heft 6/1960, p. 375-378