Ausbach (Odenbach)

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Ausbach
Data
Water code DE : 2546872
location Saar-Nahe-Bergland

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Odenbach  → Glan  → Nahe  → Rhine  → North Sea
source in Reipoltskirchen - Ausbachhof
49 ° 36 '43 "  N , 7 ° 39' 20"  O
Source height 339  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in Reipoltskirchen from the left in the Odenbach coordinates: 49 ° 38 '0 "  N , 7 ° 39' 53"  E 49 ° 38 '0 "  N , 7 ° 39' 53"  E
Mouth height approx.  199  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 140 m
Bottom slope approx. 46 ‰
length 3 km
Catchment area 2.636 km²

The Ausbach is a good three-kilometer orographic left tributary of Odenbaches in the Rhineland-Palatinate Kusel district in the area of the municipality Lauterecken-Wolfenstein belonging municipality Reipoltskirchen .

geography

course

The Ausbach rises at an altitude of 339  m above sea level. NHN in the Ausbacherhof residential area in Reipoltskirchen at the northeastern foot of the Rödelberg in the dense wood just west of Kreisstraße 42 , which will accompany him on his way almost to the mouth.

It initially flows in a northerly direction for a good kilometer between the pond corridor on its left and the corridor on the right of the pond meadows on the right in a notched valley through grassland at the western foot of the Steinkopf . At the Langenwieser slope he enters the Kusel state forest and after about one kilometer reaches the southwestern tip of Reipoltskirchen.

The stream now runs north-northeast along the hollow road (K 42) lined with houses and then disappears into the ground in the middle of the village at the Leimenäcker corridor . It now flows in the direction south-east below the national road 382 and eventually opens at an altitude of 199  m underground verdolt directly south of a bridge from the left in the coming from the south-southeast Odenbach .

Catchment area

The 2.6 km² catchment area of ​​the outcrop is located in the natural area of Moschelhöhen . of the North Palatinate Bergland and is therefore also part of the Saar-Nahe Bergland . The highest elevation of the catchment area is the Steinkopf between the Hobstätterhof in the west and the Ingweilerhof in the east with a height of 403.3  m . Other notable hills are the north of the Berghof located 365.3  meters high Rödelberg and the south of Karlshof hill lying plate ( 361  m ) and an unnamed 369  m high hill north of Rödel mountain.

The area of ​​the outcrop borders in the southwest on the catchment area of ​​the Sulzbach , which flows into the Glan, and in the southeast the Odenbach tributaries Hirzbach and Zangengraben compete .

The southwestern area of ​​its catchment area is characterized by sandy - loamy fields and grassland and forests dominate in the northeast. In the headwaters lies the Ausbacherhof, west-northwest of it the Hobstätterhof belonging to Einöllen and the village of Reipoltskirchen in the area of ​​the mouth.

Data

The Ausbach drains over the Odenbach , Glan , Nahe and Rhine into the North Sea . The difference in altitude from its source to its mouth is 140 m, which corresponds to a mean bed gradient of 46.2 ‰ over a run length of 3.0327 km. Its catchment area, with a size of 2.636 km², contributes about 3.1% to the catchment area of ​​the Odenbach (85.956 km²).

geology

The catchment area of ​​the outbreak lies in the Rotliegend of the Permocarbons in the Lower Glan subgroup . The sediment layer consists of alternating layers of gray, sometimes red, claystone , siltstone and sandstone . Tuff , limestone and coal deposits also occur occasionally .

nature and environment

In the Buchenwald east-southeast of Karlshof are sessile oak , ash and beech trees and in the herbaceous layer there can Stachys sylvatica , the Small-flowered impatiens , the woodruff , the Great witchweeds that Carex sylvatica , the Brachypodium sylvaticum and Arum maculatum develop.

In the area of ​​the middle reaches, on the banks of the brook, there are broken willows , ash, black alder and sycamore maples as well as blackberry , gooseberry , red currant , double-headed hawthorn and hazelnut bushes . Down at the bottom thrives stinging nettle , which Stachys sylvatica , the wood sorrel , the mountain yellow archangel , the Himalayan balsam , which Gundermann , the Stinkstorchschnabel , the Meadowsweet , the Great witchweeds that Carex sylvatica, the Winkelsegge , the cuckoo flower , the forest smock , the marsh marigold and the Waldzwenke.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  2. ↑ a b GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )
  3. ↑ 193.140 Moschelhöhen
  4. ↑ Soil slope , Spektrum.de
  5. ↑ Appendix to the geological overview map: Permokarbon, Rotliegend, Untere Glan subgroup of the State Office for Geology and Mining of Rhineland-Palatinate
  6. ^ Osiris: Natural beech forest SW Reipoltskirchen
  7. ^ Osiris: Quellbach SW Reipoltskirchen