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Adelbach
Data
Water code DE : 2386534
location Swabian-Franconian forest mountains

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Kocher  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source About 2.5 km east-south-east of Hirschfelden, municipality of Michelbach an der Bilz , on the western edge of the Muselmoor forest.
49 ° 3 ′ 20 "  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 14"  E
Source height approx.  481  m above sea level NHN
muzzle about 50 m west of the railway embankment underpass of the Gaildorf -Ottendörfer Adelbachstraße from the right in the Kocher coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 57 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 17 ″  E, 49 ° 1 ′ 57 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 17 ″  E
Mouth height 312.3  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 168.7 m
Bottom slope approx. 35 ‰
length 4.8 km
Catchment area 5.881 km²
Left tributaries Antebach
Right tributaries Taubenbach
Residents in the catchment area below 200

The Adelbach is a 4.8 km long brook in northeastern Baden-Württemberg , which arises in the west of the Limpurger Mountains and flows into the Kocher from the right near Gaildorf- Ottendorf .

geography

course

The Adelbach arises west of the Kohlenstraße on the western edge of the Muselmoor forest there . It is traversed by a forest path that leaves the coal road and then, after a small bend to the right, descends towards the Vorderen Antebachshalde in the beginning of the valley of the stream. The young stream runs as a ditch parallel to the forest path to the west-north-west. It digs a small clay gorge very quickly in its more spacious hollow and after a good 100 meters has already created a steep embankment on the left. After a good 300 m, its slightly shorter right source branch runs from the Schneckenbrunnen . While it flows between the forest slope troughs Vordere Antebachshalde on the left and Taubenhalde on the right, a junction of the accompanying forest path crosses it after about 700 m, which leads north to the Michelbacher Festwiese on the western foothills of the Kohlhäus , then after just under a kilometer from the right the Taubenbach emerges southern cabbage to him. Close to the foot of its left-hand hollow it turns to the left and then flows in an approximately south-south-westerly direction to the mouth.

After about 1.2 km a tributary from the Ghöll reaches it from the right , which runs in a likewise noticeably steep-walled trough, after 2.2 km finally at 357.1  m above sea level. NHN from the left from the Hinteren Antebachshalde its largest tributary, the Antebach roughly parallel to its upper course . From here the Adelbach runs between the Schneitberg on the left, a wooded foothill of the Limpurger Mountains, and the independent small massif of Buchhorn and Adelberg on the right, initially to the Adelbacher Wirtshaus (a local desert ), where it reaches the open corridor, the little road Michelbach-Hirschfelden - Gaildorf -Eutendorf enters its valley and it soon flows into the Gaildorf area. After widening the valley floor up the lower slopes, after more than 3.5 km of the Adelbach run, the first buildings, scattered sheds and individual farmsteads appear there. About a kilometer before the mouth, an old canal branches off to the left of the stream, which about 300 m further down the valley reaches a former sawmill; he no longer feeds her water today, the old storage area now serves as a fish pond. All these settlements belong to Gaildorf under the name Adelbach. Finally, at the isolated group of houses Adelbachstrasse No. 9-12 / 1 from Gaildorf-Ottendorf, the Adelbach crosses the Waiblingen – Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental railway line and then flows a few steps further after 4.8 km from the right into the Kocher, whose valley here is almost opposite attracts.

Catchment area

The Adelbach has a catchment area of ​​5.9 km², which lies in the natural area of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains , the upper reaches and most of the catchment area in the lower Limpurger Mountains , the lower reaches and the rest of the catchment area in the lower Gaildorf Basin . It forms a tube around the watercourse, usually about a kilometer wide, but in the area of ​​the west-northwest moving upper reaches, where the largest tributary Antebach runs parallel in the south at a distance of about 700 m, reaches a width of almost two kilometers.

In the north, the Adelbach is bordered by the catchment area of ​​the brook, which gives the municipality of Michelbach an der Bilz its name, the watershed runs from the Bilz hill in the north-west, which is also named after it, over the ridge of the Michelbacher Kohlhäus to the coal road in the north-east. From there it follows the coal road very precisely, to the northeast and east of the river are the catchment areas of the Brühlbach , Lustbach and Rotbach , all of which flow into the Fischach in their section between Herlebach and Oberfischach . The watershed bends west just before the Kaiserlinde at the Kohlenstraße and, following the ridge line of the Schneitberg, finally moves south, here competes with its tributaries first in the south, then in the south-east, the Eutendorfer Steppach , which is parallel to the Adelbach, offset to the southeast runs to the stove . From the estuary near Ottendorf, the watershed runs with an initial short curve to the west up to the summit of the Adelberg, whereupon it follows the ridge line of the Buchhorn in a northerly direction. Here only insignificant slope brooks compete in the west in front of the nearby Kocher. From the group of houses on the northeast summit of the Buchhorn, the watershed pulls back north to the Bilz with a small westerly dangling on the Geigenberg near Michelbach-Höll . On this section, beyond the Rattersbach, the bay between Buchhorn and Bilz drains to the Kocher.

Tributaries and lakes

Hierarchical list of tributaries and RiverIcon-SmallLake.svglakes, each from source to mouth. Length of water, lake area, catchment area and altitude according to the corresponding layers on the LUBW online map. Other sources for the information are noted.

Origin of the Adelbach at about 481  m above sea level. NHN on the western edge of the Muselmoor forest, about 2.5 km east-southeast of Michelbach an der Bilz - Hirschfelden .
The stream initially flows west to west-northwest.

  • (Inflow from the snail well ), from the right and northeast to about 435  m above sea level. NHN , approx. 0.2 km and approx. 0.1 km². The source Schneckenbrunnen is located at about 487  m above sea level. NHN .
  • Taubenbach , from the right and east-northeast to about 393  m above sea level. NHN , 0.5 km and approx. 0.2 km². Arises at about 462  m above sea level. NHN at a curve of a forest path halfway up the Kohlhäus .
  • (Stream from a crack in the blade in the Bödemle forest ), from the right and north-northeast to about 383  m above sea level. NHN approx. 0.3 km east of the Scheunen im Löhle , over 0.3 km and approx. 0.5 km². Arises at about 395  m above sea level. NHN .
    From this tributary, the Adelbach runs southwest.
  • Antebach , from the left and east to 357.1  m above sea level. NHN east-below Michelbach- Buchhorn , 2.4 km and approx. 1.3 km². Arises at about 472  m above sea level. NHN near a junction from the coal road .
    • (Three tributaries from small secondary blades), from the left of the Katzengehrn and from the right of the Muselmoor to about 445– 435  m above sea level. NHN , at most just over 0.1 km and all under 0.1 km².
    • Katzengehrbach , from the left and south-east to 425.8  m above sea level. NHN between the forest tubs Katzengehrn , Birkenschnäue and Hintere Antebachshalde , 0.8 km and almost 0.2 km². Arises at about 483  m above sea level. NHN almost 0.2 km west of the next junction from the Kohlenstraße to the Schneitberg .
    • RiverIcon-SmallLake.svgFlows through at about 395  m above sea level. NHN and a little below two forest ponds immediately following each other, together 0.4 ha.
  • (Bach from the Shepherd's Blade ), from the left and east to about 354  m above sea level. NHN little after the previous one, over 0.2 km and over 0.1 km². Arises at about 382  m above sea level. NHN near the forest path over which the Einkorn – Gaildorf hiking trail runs.
  • (Brook from the northern Kochhalde ), from the right and northwest to about 348  m above sea level. NHN near the Hirschfelden – Adelbach economic route and the former Adelbach inn there , approx. 0.4 km and just under 0.2 km². Arises at about 400  m above sea level. NHN south of Buchhorn on a forest path.
  • At the houses Eutendorf-Adelbach no. 2 left exit of a once more than 0.3 km long canal that led to a former sawmill from houses no. 1, 1/1, 1/2 and 4, but now mostly no more water leads.
    • RiverIcon-SmallLake.svgelongated fish pond at about 330  m above sea level. NHN at the end of the canal before Adelbach, house no
    • (Graben vom Forzbrunnen ), from the left and east into the fish pond, approx. 0.6 km and less than 0.2 km². The Forzbrunnen is about 345  m above sea level. NHN on the middle course. The water flow is shown as intermittent on maps by dashed lines, but even in dry conditions, at least partially very strong water flow can be observed on the lower reaches, perhaps due to pump water from the gypsum quarry near Eutendorf.

Mouth of the Adelbach from the right and finally northeast to 312.4  m above sea level. NHN at the railway embankment underpass of the Gaildorf-Ottendörfer Adelbachstrasse in the Kocher . The Adelbach is 4.8 km long and has a 5.9 km² catchment area.

Localities

The first approximately three kilometers of the Adelbach and the associated catchment area are entirely or almost entirely within the boundaries of the municipality of Michelbach an der Bilz , namely up to about 200 m south of the point where the brook at the Adelbacher Wirtshaus reaches the corridor boundary, which means that this municipality is about belong to two thirds of the catchment area. According to this, the water in the area of ​​the town of Gaildorf  - with insignificant deviations - up to the houses Eutendorf-Adelbach No. 1, 1/1, 1/2 and 4 is the border between the subdivisions of Ottendorf in the west and Eutendorf in the east, the were previously independent municipalities; Of the scattered farmsteads in Adelbach, the ones to the left of the stream belonged to the municipality of Eutendorf, those to the right of it belonged to the municipality of Ottendorf, which is why they still belong to these different districts today. On the remainder of the section, this boundary slowly climbs the left creek trough slope.

A corner of the forest of 5–6 ha on the southern Buchhorn belongs to the Westheimer district of the Rosengarten community , but drains to the Adelbach, and an even smaller 3–4 ha tip of the Eutendorf district protrudes above the source of the Antebach tributary into the catchment area.

geology

The Adelbach originates, just like the flowing Antebach, on the silica sandstone plateau ( Hassberge Formation ) of the western Limpurger Mountains, in the area where they are crossed in a west-south-west-east-north-east direction by the extensive tectonic subsidence structure of the Neckar-Jagst furrow . Two proven fault lines of the same, each with the deep floe in the south, run north of the Adelbach upper reaches across the Kohlhäu or between this and the Antebach in the south over the long Antebach plain that separates the two valleys. Another line of this kind, this time with the Hochscholle in the south, runs in the eastern area a little south of the watershed to the Steppach , then crosses, not reliably proven here, the middle valley and on the other side, on the small massif, separates the southern Adelberg summit from the rest of the Adelberg Buchhorn, recognizable in nature by a narrow saddle that is not deepened and used by a forest path at the top.

The upper reaches deepen quickly through the entire sequence of layers down to the Gipskeuper ( Grabfeld Formation ), without the geological map showing broad planes in the reed sandstone ( Stuttgart Formation ) in between; The reed sandstone is formed here in the sandy-clayey normal or still water facies, which are only a few meters thick, but in the mighty flood facies again a short distance north of Eutendorf . To the right of the Adelbachlauf, gypsum stone layers appear in the catchment area on the southern slope of the Bilz and between Michelbach-Höll and the Löhle , south of the tectonic basin, then again on the western slope, where a small opencast mine on gypsum near Eutendorf is in operation in front of the southern tip of the Schneitberg; the strata excavated here extend on the left to the mouth. The Schneitberg itself climbs a ravine from Eutendorf, where the sequence of layers of the gypsum keuper is exposed up to the reed sandstone. The stream bed reaches the Unterkeuper in the area of ​​the Adelbach scattered settlement , which further down the valley also spreads into the lower parts of tapering small hollows. The last houses on the course of the stream less than 100 m before the mouth are for the first time and just barely on the Upper Muschelkalk , which plunges further down the river in the Neckar-Jagst furrow area below the valley level of the river.

climate

In the upper and middle Adelbachtal, due to the altitude or because the low sun shines on the valley floor almost only when it is facing the valley, the snow lasts for a long time after it has already thawed in the Kocher valley, which is why the vegetation does not set in until late in spring .

environment

Landscape image

The upper course of the Adelbach lies in a steep clay blade, when it reaches the Gipskeuper, the stream, like its tributaries in this area, continues in a narrow trough with steep slopes, in which it nevertheless meanders violently and deposits small sandbanks. From the Adelbacher Wirtshaus it crosses into the green corridor and a little afterwards it runs only as a little deepened meadow brook in a quite wide meadow hollow, accompanied throughout by wood on the banks. The corridor widens, first to the left, up the slopes, here are small islands of trees in pastures; Rows of trees and hedges line old, unpaved hillside dirt roads and mark old property boundaries, sometimes along the slopes of terraced terrain, which gives the landscape a small-scale character. The scattered courtyards are partly surrounded by orchards. The first fields only appear after the first houses in Adelbach above the narrow valley basin.

Of the 5.9 km² of the catchment area, more than two thirds of the forest exist, mainly with mixed forest, in which more deciduous forest is interspersed in the northern area and more coniferous forest in the southern area on Schneitberg and Buchhorn / Adelberg. The open corridor is essentially divided into two sub-areas: The one in the northwest of the catchment area, which is about 0.7–0.8 km², extends from the southern slope of Bilz, the lower part of the Martinsreute , the southwest slope of the Kohlhäus, the Löhle up to the northeast summit of the Buchhorn and extends in the east to the edge of the basin of the brook from the Ghöll and the Adelbach itself. The greater part of this is used for arable farming. The larger contiguous piece with about 1.0-1.1 km² is located in the south of the catchment area from the Adelbacher Wirtshaus, in it the grassland dominates over the fields.

Hiking trails

A hiking trail runs through the Adelbachtal on the east side of the Kocher from Schwäbisch Hall over the Einkorn to Gaildorf . Entry from the north is possible from the Bilz or from the Michelbacher Festplatz on the outgoing Kohlhäu peak through Ghöll. At the lower group of farmsteads to the left of the stream, the hiking trail to Gaildorf then leaves the valley in a southerly direction up the flat slope up to a group of linden trees at a stone cross west of Eutendorf.

The best way to reach the south-south-west valley from the east of the Kohlenstraße is via the path on the ridge of the Schneitberg, from which a branch to the right descends almost to the Antebach valley, to merge further down with the path from the above-mentioned festival meadow. From the summit of the Adelberg, an initially steep and unpaved path leads further down past a water reservoir to the three farmsteads on the western, Ottendorfer side of the brook valley.

See also

Individual evidence

LUBW

Official online waterway map with a suitable section and the layers used here: Course and catchment area of ​​the Adelbach
General introduction without default settings and layers: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( notes )

  1. ↑ a b Height according to the contour line image on the topographic map background layer .
  2. ↑ a b c d Height according to gray lettering on the background layer topographic map .
  3. ↑ a b Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .
  4. ↑ a b Catchment area according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .
  5. ↑ Lake area after the layer standing waters .
  6. ↑ Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map .
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g Length measured on the background layer topographic map .

Other evidence and comments

  1. ↑ The population was estimated very conservatively upwards. There are 20 house numbers in the catchment area, after an almost complete inspection there are only single houses or farmsteads.
  2. ↑ According to information from the mill property owner, the flow dried up after excavation work when a crossing water pipe was laid. The canal has now also been partially filled, the accompanying row of trees is still standing.
  3. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
  4. ↑ LGRB profile geotopes: ravine in the Gewann Westhalden NNW von Eutendorf (PDF file)
  5. ↑ Geology according to the layers for Geological Map 1: 50,000 on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes ). The geological map listed under → Literature offers a similar picture  .

literature

  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North, as single sheet No. 6924 Gaildorf
  • Geological map of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park 1: 50,000, published by the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining Baden-Württemberg (LGRB), 2001.

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