Bocksbach (Pfinz)

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Bocksbach
Klettenbach (in the upper reaches)
Bocksbach between Mutschelbach and Kleinsteinbach

Bocksbach between Mutschelbach and Kleinsteinbach

Data
Water code DE : 23764
location Kraichgau

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Pfinz  → Rhine  → North Sea
source northwest of Karlsbad - Ittersbach near the racecourse
48 ° 52 ′ 13 ″  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 51 ″  E
Source height 352  m above sea level NHN
muzzle from the left into the Pfinz in Pfinztal - Kleinsteinbach Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 1 ″  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 27 ″  E 48 ° 58 ′ 1 ″  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 27 ″  E
Mouth height 148  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 204 m
Bottom slope 14 ‰
length 14.4 km
Catchment area 31.3 km²
Discharge
A Eo : 31.4 km²
at the mouth 		NNQ (2018-09)
MNQ
MQ
Mq
 MHQ
 0 l / s
83 l / s
242 l / s
7.7 l / (s km²)
 5.29 m³ / s
Dam of the flood retention basin Mutschelbach

Dam of the flood retention basin Mutschelbach

The Bocksbach (rarely Boxbach , in the upper reaches also Klettenbach ) is a 14.4 kilometer long brook in the district of Karlsruhe , which arises near Karlsbad - Ittersbach and flows into the Pfinz from the left near Pfinztal - Kleinsteinbach .

geography

course

The Bocksbach arises around 500 meters north of a nameless, around 370  m above sea level. NHN high elevation on the outskirts of Karlsbad-Ittersbach. Initially flowing northwards, the brook follows roughly the eastern edge of a forest area, which is followed by a meadow with a small horse racing track. After around 800 meters, the Bocksbach enters the forest and turns to the northeast. Here lies the tornado stone, which reminds of the destruction of 110 hectares of the Ittersbach municipal forest in a tornado in July 1968 . At the Ittersbach industrial area Im Stockmädle , the Klettenbach flows from the right , from here to Langensteinbach the Bocksbach is also known as the Klettenbach.

On the short northern course on the edge of the industrial area, the brook crosses the state road 622, which follows the water to Langensteinbach, and the busenbach – Ittersbach railway line . The standard gauge railway line, part of the Karlsruhe light rail network , was opened in its current form in 1975; a narrow-gauge railway that existed between 1899 and 1964 ran a little further north. The Bocksbach follows this old railway line for around 800 meters in a west-northwest direction. This section of the brook has been preserved relatively close to nature, has only a slight gradient and partly runs in an alder forest . Above the Hermannsee, a small pond, the Häslichbach flows from the left .

Below the Hermannsee, the Bocksbach turns to the north and reaches Langensteinbach in an increasingly deepening valley, where it is initially accompanied by a strip of meadow and later lies entirely in the forest. On the southern outskirts of Langensteinbach are the ruins of the Barbarakapelle on the left and the SRH Clinic on the right . Langensteinbach, at its core a street village-like settlement in the Bocksbachtal, the brook passes in a two-kilometer-long Verdolung .

From Langensteinbach to Kleinsteinbach, the state road 563 follows the Bocksbachtal. A good one kilometer north of the outskirts of Langensteinbach, the Darbach flows from the left . The Mutschelbach flood retention basin is located just below the mouth of the stream . Flowing temporarily in a north-easterly to easterly direction, the Bocksbach crosses under the Autobahn 8 (Karlsruhe – Stuttgart) and reaches Mutschelbach , another district of Karlsbad. Similar to Langensteinbach, the Bocksbach flows through the street-village-like settlement core of Untermutschelbach , which was merged with Obermutschelbach in 1936, in an almost one kilometer-long twist .

To the north of Mutschelbach, the Bocksbach crosses the roughly 60-meter-long border between the communities of Karlsbad and Pfinztal. The short border is the only connection between the northern and southern parts of the Karlsruhe district; in the west lies the urban district of Karlsruhe, in the east the Enzkreis borders. The municipal boundary lies at a narrow point in the Bocksbach valley, which is around 40 meters deep here. There are forests on both sides of the valley; the Bocksbach is accompanied by a sometimes very narrow strip of meadow.

At the northern edge of the forest, the Windelbachgraben , which is around three kilometers long and rises north of the Karlsruhe district of Stupferich, flows from the left. The premises of the forge company Rosswag are on the right slope of the valley . A little later, the built-up area of ​​Kleinsteinbach begins, through which the Bocksbach flows, whereby it turns - partly accompanied by a green area - from the initially northerly direction of flow to the east-northeast. Shortly before it flows into the Pfinz, the Bocksbach passes under the Bundesstraße 10 and the Karlsruhe – Mühlacker railway , both of which follow the Pfinztal.

The Bocksbach flows through three different landscape protection areas : Part of the upper reaches lies in the landscape protection area Karlsbader Bachlandschaften . The Bocksbachtal landscape protection area includes areas above and below Mutschelbach, which were placed under protection in 1939 as a valley that was largely preserved in its natural state. The Pfinzgau landscape protection area comprises areas in the Pfinztal municipality.

Catchment area

The Bocksbach has a 31.3 km² catchment area, which is initially only two kilometers wide and thickens to about twice its width below Langensteinbach through the partial catchment area of ​​the largest and left tributary Windelbachgraben, first in a northerly, then north-northeast to northeast direction extends to the mouth in Langensteinbach, which is about 12 km as the crow flies from the southernmost point on the outskirts of Ittersbach.

From a natural point of view, the upper catchment area down into the valley forest down from Mutschelbach to the Pfinz-Alb-Platte sub -area , the other part, including the entire Windelbachgraben sub-catchment area, belongs to the Western Pfinzgau sub-area of western Kraichgau . The highest point at the water reservoir and sports field on the western edge of Ittersbach reaches 369.6  m above sea level. NHN . The area has large parts of the forest, which are in three bars in front of Langensteinbach, between Langensteinbach and Mutschelbach and between Mutschelbach and Kleinsteinbach across the valley. The open corridor in the south consists almost entirely of meadows, towards the north the proportion of fields increases.

That of the Bocksbach is surrounded in turn by the catchment areas of the following neighboring waters:

  • From the mouth southwards to the breadth of Mutschelbach, the receiving Pfinz itself is the next body of water in the east;
  • in the central and southern area of ​​the eastern watershed, the Auerbach , a higher left tributary of the Pfinz, squeezes between the two waters;
  • in the south-southeast near Ittersbach is the source area of ​​the Pfinz itself;
  • in the south-south-west the Katzenbach , a tributary of the Alb , competes in the south-west further and smaller right tributaries of it, namely a brook through the Etzenroter Klamm and the Hetzelbach ;
  • the runoff behind the western watershed ultimately also reaches the Alb via the Scheidgraben ;
  • the Alte Bach in the west-northwest drains very far down into the Pfinz;
  • the Dürrbach in the north-northwest is again a left tributary of the Pfinz, as is the Hirschbach in the north.

From a geological point of view, the area is largely covered by loess sediment from Quaternary deposits, on the heights mostly in the form of loess and loess loam, in the upper valley also as loess-containing floating earth . Already there at one point and on the lower course below Langensteinbach lies flat sandstone of the Upper Buntsandstein , which was quarried a few places earlier, on the bottom of the valley and on the flanks . At the top of the heights in this area are layer islands of the Lower Muschelkalk .

Tributaries and lakes

Hierarchical list of tributaries and RiverIcon-SmallLake.svglakes 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.

Bocksbach , on the upper reaches after the tributary of the Klettenbach up to a little before Langensteinbach also Klettenbach , arises at about 352  m above sea level. NHN northwest of Ittersbach near the racecourse.

  • Klettenbach from Hasenschlag , from the right and south to almost 315  m above sea level. NHN on the western edge of the Ittersbacher industrial area Im Stockmädle , 1.0 km and approx. 0.8 km². Arises at about 335  m above sea level. NHN on the southern edge of Hasenschlag to the Erlach corridor near the racecourse.
  • Häslichbach , from the left and southwest to about 313  m above sea level. NHN at the exit of the forest in the Kühlbrunnwiesen , 1.3 km and 0.7 km². Arises at about 333  m above sea level. NHN in Birkenhau north of the closed landfill on the Hagbuckel .
    • RiverIcon-SmallLake.svgPasses two small ponds at about 313  m above sea level. NHN in the lower wedge of the mouth, together a little over 0.1 ha.
  • RiverIcon-SmallLake.svgFlows through to about 312  m above sea level. NHN immediately after the previous one, the Hermannsee , over 0.1 ha.
  • RiverIcon-SmallLake.svgPasses two ponds on Hamberg in a left side valley trough between 315 and 310  m above sea level. Above sea level , together 0.3 ha.
  • (Brook from the Kohlplatt ), from the left and west to about 240  m above sea level. NHN at the end of Karlsbad- Langensteinbach , 0.8 km and approx. 1.1 km². Arises at about 255  m above sea level. NHN in the Kohlplatt on the municipal boundary of Waldbronn and crosses the industrial area in the northwest of Langensteinbach verdolt
  • (Waldklingenbach from the Fasanenschlag ), from the right and east-southeast to just under 235  m above sea level. NHN to Langensteinbach, 0.5 km and approx. 0.4 km². Arises at about 267  m above sea level. NHN on a forest path.
  • (Waldklingenbach from the Rappenbusch ), from the right and east-southeast to about 227  m above sea level. NHN , 0.7 km and approx. 0.6 km². Arises at about 260  m above sea level. NHN in the Rappenbusch .
  • RiverIcon-SmallLake.svgPasses a pond on the right of the run at about 227  m above sea level. NHN , a little over 0.1 ha.
  • Darbach or Darsbach , from the left and a total of west to about 226  m above sea level. NHN in front of a Waldenge and the dam of the flood retention basin Mutschelbach, 1.6 km and 2.7 km². Arises at about 254  m above sea level. NHN south of the Aussiedlerhof range in Steinich / Steinig .
  • Flows through to about 223  m above sea level. NHN the not permanently dammed Mutschelbach flood retention basin
  • Wolfsgraben , from the left and west-northwest to about 193  m above sea level. NHN at the end of the Palmbachstrasse valley in Karlsbad-Unter Mutschelbach , 0.7 km and approx. 0.8 km². Arises at about 224  m above sea level. NHN in the Gewann Am Wolfsgraben .
  • (Bach from the Klinge Kleinsteinbach ), from the right and east-southeast to about 175  m above sea level. NHN from the Beinhölzle before Kleinsteinbach, over 0.4 km and approx. 0.3 km². Arises at about 217  m above sea level. NHN at the upper edge of the Schwalmes forest .
  • Windelbachgraben , from the left and west to about 172  m above sea level. NHN under the hiking home in front of Kleinsteinbach, 2.8 km and 6.9 km². Arises at about 218  m above sea level. NHN on the northwestern edge of Karlsruhe- Stupferich at the exit of Windelbachstrasse.
    • Zeilgraben , from the left and northwest to about 204  m above sea level. NHN a little north of Stupferich, 0.4 km and approx. 1.0 km². Arises at about 209  m above sea level. NHN at the lubrication furnace hump north of Stupferich.
      • (Bach im Gewann Hässlingen ), from the right and west to almost 205  m above sea level. NHN shortly before the mouth of the Zeilgraben, 0.6 km and approx. 0.4 km². Arises at about 215  m above sea level. NHN next to the L 9654 Thomashof –Stupferich.
    • Zennerklammgraben , from the right and southwest to about 198  m above sea level. NHN Am Gewann Weiher next to the K 9653 Stupferich – Kleinsteinbach shortly before entering the forest, 2.2 km and approx. 3.3 km². Arises at about 243  m above sea level. NHN a little above Stupferich on the K 9653.

Opens from the left and south-southwest at about 148  m above sea level. NHN in Pfinztal - Kleinsteinbach in the Pfinz, 14.4 km and 31.4 km².

history

The original name of the Bockbach was Steinbach . He is last mentioned in a Berain of the Gottesaue monastery from 1535. On the one hand, the name Steinbach is interpreted as "brook full of stones"; on the other hand, it is suspected that it could point to possible Roman stone buildings that were unfamiliar to Teutons . The place names Kleinsteinbach (originally Niedersteinbach ) and Langensteinbach form a pair of opposites and are derived from the old name of the Bocksbach. The place name Mutschelbach is seen as a reference to numerous mussels in the village stream.

The body of water was first named Bocksbach in 1564. The name is probably derived from the Bockswiesen and the Bocksbrunnen , mentioned in 1535 , whose names in turn refer to the neighboring Buchwald south of Kleinsteinbach.

The most important bridge over the Bocksbach was that of the road from Karlsruhe to Pforzheim (today's Bundesstraße 10 ) in Kleinsteinbach. It already existed as a three-arched stone bridge in the 16th century . In 1739, 1747 and 1758 the bridge or neighboring bank walls were damaged by floods . In 1747 it was noted in the files that the Bocksbach used to "act very wildly when a large body of water formed". In 1782 the bridge parapets were raised after horses and cattle had repeatedly plunged into the stream. High water marks from October 24, 1824 and May 7, 1931, which were attached to the bridge, testified to further floods . When the federal road was expanded, the bridge was replaced by a reinforced concrete bridge in 1958/59.

The demolition of the Bocksbach in Langensteinbach was started in 1934 as a job creation measure and continued after the Second World War in the late 1950s. A local history published by the municipality of Langensteinbach in 1970 saw not only economic advantages, but also "the breeding grounds of dangerous vermin" had been removed by the dolation of "the unsightly, often almost sewer-like watercourse".

In Mutschelbach the Bocksbach was verdolted between 1975 and 1977. The reason was the narrow passage through the town without sidewalks and unpleasant odors due to the poor water quality. The Badische Neuesten Nachrichten characterized the Bocksbach in 1976 as a body of water that becomes an “unhygenic, sluggish trickle” in summer, but could “turn into a raging monster in a very short time” and then flood roads and bridges. Together with the Verdolung, the Mutschelbach flood retention basin was built above the village . It consists of an earth dam around ten meters high and has a normal flood retention area of ​​303,000 cubic meters. Recalculations of floods had shown a maximum discharge of 30 cubic meters per second.

At the end of the 1980s, the Bocksbach was relocated at the beginning of the village of Kleinsteinbach, as the bank walls had been washed away and this resulted in cracks in buildings. Paths were laid on the new stream that were extended to the main road in the following years. In 2001 a sculpture path was opened along the Bocksbach in Kleinsteinbach. The open-air exhibition, initially planned for one year, then became a permanent facility. The Kleinsteinbach duck race has been held on the Bocksbach since 2003 . Several times, such as in 2011 and 2017, the race track had to be shortened due to the low runoff in the Bocksbach. The biennial event was one of the first of its kind in the region. In 2018 the area where the Bocksbach flows into the Pfinz was redesigned to be natural. A rough ramp was built at the mouth to improve the passage for fish and other aquatic animals. 50 years earlier, the stream bed in Kleinsteinbach had been laid in a brick double trapezoidal profile.

Web links

Commons : Bocksbach (Pfinz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

LUBW

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

  1. ↑ a b c Height according to the contour line image on the background layer topographic map .
  2. ↑ a b Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .
  3. ↑ a b Catchment area after the aggregated areas layer 5 .
  4. ↑ Protected areas according to the relevant layers, nature partly according to the biotope layer .
  5. ↑ Height according to black lettering on the background layer topographic map .
  6. ↑ Lake area after the layer standing waters .
  7. ↑ Catchment area according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .
  8. ↑ a b Name Klettenbach for the first Bocksbach tributary and the Bocksbach run from there on even further down to the measuring table in the Deutsche Fotothek . Common names Klettenbach can be found on the Bocksbach on the property and waters layer to the east of Spielberg and south of Langensteinbach.
    Name of the Bocksbach upper course to Langensteinbach according to Gustav Rommel : Kleinsteinbach. Self-published by the community of Kleinsteinbach, Kleinsteinbach 1951, p. 54.
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map .
  10. ↑ The stream name is Dar s bach to the layers water network (AWGN) and water name , but Darbach on the usually reliable in name Questions background layer for the blue label Bach Topographic Map . The win on the lower reaches is called Leilach .
  11. ↑ length after the layer water body name .

Other evidence

  1. ↑ Values ​​from regionalization, data status March 1, 2016 (MNQ, MQ), March 1, 2007 (MHQ) from Abfluss-BW - a data and map service of the State Agency for the Environment Baden-Württemberg ( information )
    For NNQ see “Der Bach ist currently completely dried up. ”In: Redesign of the Bocksbach lower reaches is being tackled. In: Bulletin of the Pfinztal community , September 26, 2018 (accessed June 11, 2019).
  2. ^ Hermann Schneider-Strittmacher: Langensteinbach. The former royal bath. Langensteinbach Mayor's Office, Langensteinbach 1970, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Survey sheet for the extensive natural monument "Erlenbruch" north of the Ittersbach industrial area (PDF, 7.5 kB, accessed on June 13, 2019)
  4. ↑ Langensteinbach - Altgemeinde ~ Teilort at LEO-BW (accessed on June 13, 2019).
  5. ↑ Mutschelbach - Altgemeinde ~ Teilort at LEO-BW (accessed on June 13, 2019).
  6. ^ Friedrich Huttenlocher , Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 170 Stuttgart. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1949, revised 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
  7. ↑ 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 )
  8. ^ Gustav Rommel : Kleinsteinbach. Self-published by the community of Kleinsteinbach, Kleinsteinbach 1951, p. 54.
  9. ↑ Schneider-Strittmacher, Langensteinbach , p. 10.
  10. ↑ Rommel, Kleinsteinbach , p. 14 f.
  11. ^ Rommel, Kleinsteinbach , p. 55.
  12. ↑ Rommel, Kleinsteinbach , p. 55 f, quotation p. 56.
  13. ↑ Mayor office of the Pfinztal community with the “Chronicle” working group (Red.): 40 years of Pfinztal. Pfinztal community, Pfinztal 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045314-4 , p. 184.
  14. ↑ Schneider-Strittmacher, Langensteinbach , pp. 238–240, quotation p. 239.
  15. ↑ Profile HRB Mutschelbach at LUBW (accessed on June 14, 2019);
    Collages of pictures and newspaper articles from 1971 (PDF, 3.4 MB) 1976 (PDF, 2.6 MB) and 1978 (PDF, 1.9 MB) on the website of the municipality of Karlovy Vary.
  16. ↑ Mayor's office, 40 years of Pfinztal , p. 157.
  17. ↑ Günther Malisius: Die Pfinz: Once a lifeline, now local recreation and repeatedly corrected . (= Contributions to the history of Durlach and the Pfinzgau , Volume 5). Freundeskreis Pfinzgaumuseum, Historical Association Durlach eV (Ed.). Regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-681-8 , p. 52.
  18. ↑ 800 plastic ducks swam in competition. In: Bulletin of the Pfinztal community , April 28, 2011 (accessed June 14, 2019);
    On the Kleinsteinbacher Bocksbach, over 800 ducklings went on their journey. In: Bulletin of the Pfinztal community , April 18, 2013 (accessed June 14, 2019);
    The youth of the ATSV Kleinsteinbach organized their duck race for the eighth time. In: Bulletin of the Pfinztal community , May 10, 2017 (accessed June 14, 2019)
  19. ↑ Redesign of the Bocksbach lower course is being tackled. In: Bulletin of the Pfinztal community , September 26, 2018 (accessed June 14, 2019).