Boxbach

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Boxbach
Valley of the Boxbach near the Boxbach pit

Valley of the Boxbach near the Boxbach pit

Data
Water code DE : 258148
location Westerwald

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Perf  → Lahn  → Rhine  → North Sea
source Border area Hessen / NRW
50 ° 52 ′ 36 ″  N , 8 ° 23 ′ 8 ″  E
Source height approx.  467  m above sea level NHN
muzzle near Breidenbach in the Perf coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 53 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 1 ″  E 50 ° 53 ′ 53 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 1 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  305  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 162 m
Bottom slope approx. 28 ‰
length 5.8 km
Catchment area 13.22 km²
Discharge
A Eo : 13.22 km²
at the mouth 		MQ
Mq
 		197 l / s
14.9 l / (s km²)
Right tributaries Gladenbach
Communities Breidenbach

The Boxbach is a 5.8 km long left tributary of the Perf in the northwest of the Gladenbacher Bergland in the area of ​​the municipality of Breidenbach in the central Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf .

The former Boxbach pit and the Boxbach path that crosses the stream are named after the stream .

geography

course

The Boxbach rises on the western border between Breidenbach and Bad Laasphe and not far from the eastern seam of the Breidenbacher Grund , as the north-west of the Gladenbacher Bergland that drains to Perf is called, to the Rothaargebirge , immediately west-south-west of the 561.6  m high Hommerichskopf es.

The stream flows in a north-easterly direction and touches Wiesenbach to the south-east, before finally turning east and flowing into the Perf from the left immediately above the Perf reservoir and north of the core town of Breidenbach.

Tributaries

The most important tributary of the Boxbach is the Gladenbach (2581482), which flows in from the right less than 100 m above its mouth , which previously flowed in parallel to the south-east and touched the district of Kleingladenbach to the south-south-east. With a length of 5.1 km this is only slightly shorter, its catchment area occupies 5.434 km² (Boxbach above: 7.79 km²) about 40% of the Boxbach system.

Tributaries from the source to the mouth

  • Mehlbach ( left ), 1.1 km
  • Struthgraben [GKZ 25814816] ( left ), 1.1 km
  • Lützelbach ( right ), 1.2 km
  • Gladenbach ( right ), 5.1 km, 5.43 km²

Web links

Commons : Boxbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  2. ↑ Designation according to the property map