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White Elster

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White Elster

Name: White Elster
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Location: Saxony, Germany

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1. Schladitzer Lake – View of Lake Schladitz loop from Leipzig-Lindenau

94.9km

03:51

330m

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2. Schladitzer Lake Loop – Lake Schladitz loop from Leipzig Coppiplatz

61.9km

02:29

190m

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3. White Elster River – New Luppe loop from Leipzig Slevogtstraße

51.6km

02:14

180m

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Schakal

June 23, 2024

On June 21, 1896, the Association of Vogtland Mountain Clubs decided to capture the Elster spring and mark it with a stone monument and an inscription. There were actually two springs. So it had to be clarified which one would be called the Elster spring in the future. The Steingrüner spring was chosen as this because it has the larger amount of water, is higher and has the main flow direction from the beginning.[9]

Since October 2019, the spring has been very easy to reach in an environmentally friendly way from Bad Brambach via the “Bärendorf Ort” stop on line 34 (call bus with 2-hour advance reservation) of the Vogtland city bus and a subsequent walk of approx. 2 km[10].

Upper and middle reaches

White Elster in Bad Elster, district of Heißenstein (on the border with the Czech Republic)

Just ten kilometers after its source, the White Elster crosses the border into the Saxon Vogtland between Doubrava and Bad Elster. Behind Oelsnitz, it is dammed by the Pirk dam and, after the dam, flows through the towns of Weischlitz, Kürbitz and Straßberg. The White Elster then reaches the town of Plauen, then flows through the valleys of the "Vogtland Switzerland" and then leaves Saxony for the time being behind the town of Elsterberg.

Once in Thuringia, the White Elster flows through the towns of Greiz and Gera, emerging from the Vogtland low mountain range shortly before Gera and entering the red sandstone of the Saale-Elster sandstone plateau. This leaves the White Elster shortly before the Saxony-Anhalt town of Zeitz and reaches the Altenburg-Zeitz loess hills and thus the North German lowlands.

Lower course

Aerial view of the mouth of the Saale
Shortly after Zeitz, the White Elster reaches the Leipzig lowland bay and widens its valley considerably (an average of two kilometers). It then leaves Saxony-Anhalt again and flows again on Saxon territory. It passes Zwenkau and is diverted around the former Zwenkau open-cast mine (now Zwenkauer See). The White Elster then flows through Leipzig, reaches Saxony-Anhalt again near Schkeuditz and finally flows into the Saale in Halle (Saale).
Source de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9Fe_Elster

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1. Schladitzer Lake – View of Lake Schladitz loop from Leipzig-Lindenau

2. Schladitzer Lake Loop – Lake Schladitz loop from Leipzig Coppiplatz

3. White Elster River – New Luppe loop from Leipzig Slevogtstraße

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