Baybach

Baybach
In the Baybach valley
Data
Water code	EN : 2698
location	Hunsrück Germany Rhineland-Palatinate
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Moselle  → Rhine  → North Sea
source	in the Hunsrück a good kilometer west-southwest of Hausbay 50 ° 6 ′ 8 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 23 ″  E
Source height	approx.  454  m above sea level NHN
muzzle	in castles in the Moselle Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 45 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 13 ″  E 50 ° 12 ′ 45 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 13 ″  E
Mouth height	approx.  75  m above sea level NHN
Height difference	approx. 379 m
Bottom slope	approx. 13 ‰
length	30 km
Catchment area	106.843 km²
Discharge at the level Burgen 2 A Eo : 105.73 km² Location: 1.7 km above the mouth	NNQ (09/10/1973) MNQ 1973–2015 MQ 1973–2015 Mq 1973–2015 MHQ 1973–2015 HHQ (07/22/1982)	12 l / s 52 l / s 662 l / s 6.3 l / (s km²) 9.74 m³ / s 43 m³ / s
Communities	Hausbay , Thörlingen , Bickenbach , Beltheim , Gondershausen , Dommershausen , castles
Baybach in the Hunsrück

The Baybach is an almost 30 km long right tributary of the Moselle in Rhineland-Palatinate .

geography

course

The Baybach rises at a height of about 450 m in the Hunsrück to the southwest or southeast of the municipality of Hausbay and unite in the center to form the Baybach. In the upper reaches the brook flows through a valley and crosses the Hunsrückhöhenstraße at Castle Reifenthal . The further course leads in numerous turns through a gorge-like valley . In the middle course near Waldeck Castle , the valley narrows to a gorge. The Baybach flows into the Moselle in castles .

Tributaries

Tributaries of the Baybach

Surname	GKZ	location	Length in km	EZG in km²	Remarks
(Bach vom) Wiesenquell Bach	2698-112	Left0	000.5000	0000.7200
Brook from the orchard meadow	2698-114	right	001.2000	0000.8700
(Stream from the Bornwiese)	2698-115	right	000.7000	0000.2600
Lingerhahner Bach	2698-12	right	002.1000	0003.8800
Sayenbach	2698-132	Left0	001.0000	0000.4800
Weyerbach	2698-14	right	002.6000	0007.7200
Digging from the old rubble site	2698-1912	right	000.2000	0000.2100
Lohbachsgraben	2698-192	right	000.2000	0000.2300
Niederter Bächelchen	2698-194	Left0	000.8000	0000.6400
.....	2698 -...	.	000.0000	0000.0000
.....	2698 -...	.	000.0000	0000.0000

Notes on the table

1. ↑ Water code number , in Germany the official river code number with a separator inserted after the prefix for better readability, which stands for the Baybach river , which is common to all .

Flora and fauna

Upper and lower reaches flow through extensively used valley meadows. Willows and alders are mainly found on the bank , which are hardly used economically today. In the middle area, slopes wooded with oak and hornbeam border directly on the stream. The rich variety of plants includes the middle larkspur , hollow larkspur , deer tongue , the stinking hellebore and the thorny shield fern . Gray herons and mallards are the most common water birds in the Bachtal.

Hydropower

The water power of the Baybach was used to operate water mills . Of the original 26 grain, oil, saw and wool mills, some have already fallen into disrepair, some are still inhabited or managed, others are used privately as weekend homes.

• Ostersmühle (to Mühlpfad )
• Kehlenmühle (to Mühlpfad )
• Castle mill in Reifenthal
• Niedertermühle ( near Leiningen , district of Reifenthal Castle)
• Layenmühle (to Schwall )
• Schwaller mill
• Niederter Bauernmühle
• Strieders Mühle, formerly also Thörlinger Bauernmühle
• Sohns Mühle, formerly also known as the Basselscheid farm mill
• Peterchesmühle, formerly Linkmühle
• Schultheiser mill
• Sunday mill or Strödersmühle
• Wine mill
• Heyweilerer Bauernmühle (to Heyweiler )
• Schmausemühle (to Gondershausen )
• Waldeckermühle (to Waldeck Castle )
• Neumühle
• Gastemühle
• Franzenmühle
• Mohrenmühle

Mining and wartime

Lead ore and slate were extracted in some tunnels . The inhabitants took shelter in the caves and old tunnels during the bombing raids of World War II. Peter Zeutzheim, who had escaped from Gestapo custody and who managed to stay hidden in the surrounding forests with the support of the population until the end of the war, also hid here for a time.

tourism

Old cart below Waldeck Castle. Track-like ruts in the rock are reminiscent of the earlier carriage traffic to the castle.

The Saar-Hunsrück-Steig and its Murscher Eselsche dream loop run a few kilometers west of Morshausen in the Bachtal. A hiking trail not suitable for bicycles leads over the slopes of the stream through the valley and the gorge; the Schmausemühle offers refreshments. The youth castle Waldeck and the adjoining youth education center of the working group Burg Waldeck ABW near Dorweiler are z. B. a gateway to the Baybachtal or the parking lot in Castle Reifenthal near Thörlingen on the B327 ( Hunsrückhöhenstraße ). Since 1920 until today the Baybachgebiet for is Nerother migrant birds and other bündische groups a popular destination. The writer Werner Helwig describes in his biographical book Auf der Knabenfährte the years he spent here as a boy and wrote and set the Baybach song to music .

literature

• Werner Helwig : Secrets of the Baybach Valley . Voggenreiter, Bad Godesberg 1955.
• Heinrich Merten, Werner Stoffel: From mill to mill. A hike through the Baybach Valley . Emmelshausen 2001.
• Georg Giesing : Baybachtal escape route, 1943 - 1945 . Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, Briechel 1995. CD: Radioropa Technisat . 2007, ISBN 9783866677487 .

See also

• List of tributaries of the Moselle

Web links

Commons : Baybach  - Collection of Images

• Water trail on the Baybach. (PDF; 3.94 MB) Ministry for Environment and Forests, Mainz, accessed on June 21, 2019 . 
• Private homepage on the topic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Measurement data: Level Burgen 2 / Waters: Baybach
2. ↑ Achim brother: Theresia, Petrus and Camilla. (PDF; 1.8 MB) Former ore mining in the Baybach area. In: Members' magazine "Köpfchen" 4/07. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Burg Waldeck, February 2008, pp. 21–24 , accessed on January 1, 2015 . 
3. ^ Georg Giesing: Baybachtal escape route . Rhein-Mosel-Verlag. Briedel 1995.
4. ↑ Dream Loop
5. ↑ Saar-Hunsrücksteig with dream loops
6. ↑ Werner Helwig: On the boy track. A memory book . Konstanz / Stuttgart 1951 and Carmina Nerothana . Heidenheim 1983. ISBN 3-88258-048-8 .