Kleinwaltersdorfer Bach

The Kleinwaltersdorfer Bach is a 7.6-kilomentre-long, left tributary of the Freiberger Mulde in Saxony, Germany. The stream is assessed as moderately polluted (GKL II).

Kleinwaltersdorfer Bach
Location
State	Saxony, Germany
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	source region: near Freiberg
• coordinates	50°54′46.75″N 13°18′24″E
• elevation	ca. 420 m above sea level (NHN)
Mouth
• location	near Großschirma into the Freiberger Mulde
• coordinates	50°57′50.25″N 13°18′44″E
• elevation	ca. 293 m above sea level (NHN)
Length	7.6 km
Basin features
Progression	Freiberger Mulde → Mulde → Elbe → North Sea
River system	Elbe

Course

The stream, locally known as the Waltersbach, rises in Freiberg's Hospital Wood (Hospitalwald) and flows from there northwards through the village of Kleinwaltersdorf. After Kleinwaltersdorf it snakes its way through a water meadow landscape to Großschirma, where it empties into the Freiberger Mulde.

The villagers of Kleinwaltersdorf call the Waltersbach "the stream" (die Bach).

Literature

• Flusslandschaft Kleinwaltersdorfer Bach – Kartierung, Analyse, Bewertung. In: Zeitschrift für Angewandte Geoökologie der TU Bergakademie Freiberg. 1/2004.

See also

• List of rivers of Saxony