Altneckar (Wieblingen)

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Altneckar near Wieblingen

The Altneckar near the Heidelberg district of Wieblingen is an approximately five kilometer long oxbow lake of the Neckar .

The Altneckar was created as a result of the river's expansion into a shipping route in the 1920s and begins below the Wieblingen weir das, which lies between the districts of Bergheim on the left and Neuenheim on the right bank; the upper water here has a storage target of 105.2  m above sea level. NN and falls into the old river bed several meters deep. Downstream it ends in the area of ​​the Schwabenheim lock , here ⊙ the Altneckar and the Wieblingen side canal, which runs parallel to the right along the entire length, flow at 96.5  m above sea level. NN together again. In the middle of the Altneckar runs the border between Bergheim and Wieblingen on the south and west side and Neuenheim, Handschuhsheim and Dossenheim on the north and east side. This section of the river is natural. At the height of Wieblingen, it is separated by several elongated islands, which change slightly after floods, with gravel banks and willow and bush vegetation, from the former lock canal, which branches off to the left at the southern edge of Wieblingen, runs almost parallel and flows back again before the A 5 bridge.

In the Altneckar are the nature reserves Unterer Neckar: Altneckar Heidelberg-Wieblingen and Unterer Neckar: Altneckar Wörth-Weidenstücker , it is also part of the nature and landscape protection area Unterer Neckar , which stretches from Heidelberg to Mannheim and comprises a total of six nature and seven landscape protection areas.

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 43 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 8 ″  E

  • the beginning in Wieblingen

  • the end in Schwabenheim

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