Rivers of Thuringia - Werra, Leine, Saale, Unstrut, Uffe, Schwarza, Helme, Weisse Elster, Gera, Sprotte, ILM, Weida, Pleisse, Wipper, Bode (Paperback)

Chapters: Werra, Leine, Saale, Unstrut, Uffe, Schwarza, Helme, Weisse Elster, Gera, Sprotte, Ilm, Weida, Pleisse, Wipper, Bode, Ulster, Horsel, Orla, Spitter. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Location of the Saale The Saale, also known as the Saxon Saale (German: ) and Thuringian Saale (German: ), is a river in Germany and a left-bank tributary of the Elbe. It is not to be confused with the smaller Franconian Saale, a right-bank tributary of the Main, or the Saale in Lower Saxony, a tributary of the Leine. Saale valley near Topen, BavariaThe Saale originates on the slope of the Grosser Waldstein mountain near Zell in the Fichtelgebirge in Upper Franconia (Bavaria), at an altitude of 728 m. It pursues a winding course in a northern direction, and after passing the manufacturing town of Hof, enters Thuringia. It flows amid well-wooded low mountains of the Thuringian Forest until it reaches the valley of Saalfeld. After leaving Saalfeld the Saale reaches Rudolstadt. Here it receives the waters of the Schwarza, in whose valley lies the ruined castle of Schwarzburg, the ancestral seat of the formerly ruling House of Schwarzburg. From Saalfeld the Saale enters the limestone hill region north of the Thuringian Forest, and sweeps beneath the barren, conical hills enclosing the university town of Jena. It enters Saxony-Anhalt and passes the spa of Bad Kosen, washes numerous vine-clad hills and, after receiving the deep and navigable Unstrut at Naumburg, flows past Weissenfels, Merseburg, Halle, Bernburg and Calbe. It finally joins the Elbe just above Barby, after traversing a distance of 413 km (257 mi) (shortened 14 kilometers (9 mi) by a bypass from its natural length of 427 kilometers (265 mi)). The Saale is navigable from Naumburg and is connected with ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=18