Berggraben (Main)

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Mountain moat
Data
location Spessart

Bavaria

River system Rhine
Drain over Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source south of Lohr am Main - Wombach
49 ° 58 ′ 20 ″  N , 9 ° 34 ′ 41 ″  E
Source height approx.  155  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in Lohr- Rodenbach am Main in the Main Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '41 "  N , 9 ° 35' 48"  E 49 ° 57 '41 "  N , 9 ° 35' 48"  E
Mouth height 147.3  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 7.7 m
Bottom slope approx. 3.8 ‰
length 2 km

The Berggraben is a creek about two kilometers long in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart in Bavaria , which flows from the right into the Main when coming from the north-west in the Lohr district of Rodenbach .

course

The stream rises in the Lohr-Rothenfelser Main Valley in the area of ​​the Rodenbach district at an altitude of about 155  m above sea level. NN an only intermittently water-bearing spring in a meadow at the foot of the steep and wooded slopes of the southeastern sandstone spessart a little south of the Lohr district of Wombach .

The heavily straightened stream initially flows about 50 m northeast from the foot of the slope, then bends almost at right angles to the southeast and then runs in a straight line and accompanied by sparse wood on the steep and wooded edge of the Spessart through grassland. In the south of the corridor mountain meadow of the now year-round water-bearing stream can unfold free.

At a small sports field, it reaches the local area of Rodenbach, passes under the St 2315 state road at the Catholic parish church of St.Rochus , picks up a brook on its right side that flows underground to it, and finally flows into Rodenbach south of the former Dalberg- Erthal's castle at an altitude of 147.3  m above sea level. NN at about Main km 194.1 from the right into the Main flowing in from the north .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  2. ↑ water level of the River Main between barrages Steinbach and Rothfels consistently noted both on the Bayern Atlas in blue.
  3. ↑ Own measurement on the BayernAtlas
  4. ^ Horst Mernsching, Günter Wagner: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 152 Würzburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 5.3 MB)