Braubach (Main)
| Braubach | ||
 Typical course in an old Main river bed between Hanau - Hohe Tanne , Maintal-Hochstadt and Maintal-Dörnigheim |
||
| Data | ||
| Water code | DE : 24794 | |
| location |
Rhine-Main lowlands
|
|
| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Main → Rhine → North Sea | |
| origin | Junction from Salisbach north of Hanau - Kesselstadt 50 ° 9 ′ 2 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 1 ″ E |
|
| Source height | approx. 107 m above sea level NHN | |
| muzzle | west of Maintal - Dörnigheim in the Main Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 1 ″ N , 8 ° 49 ′ 17 ″ E 50 ° 8 ′ 1 ″ N , 8 ° 49 ′ 17 ″ E |
|
| Mouth height | approx. 98 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | approx. 9 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 1.2 ‰ | |
| length | approx. 7.5 km | |
| Catchment area | 25.296 km² | |
| Discharge A Eo : 25.296 km² at the mouth |
MQ Mq |
507 l / s 20 l / (s km²) |
The Braubach is a 7.5 km long right tributary of the Main . It arises from the bifurcation of the Salis and Krebsbach near Hanau - Wilhelmsbad and mostly flows in the area of the city of Maintal .
geography
course
The Braubach is derived from the Salisbach immediately to the east of the former pheasantry (today the Wilhelmsbad golf course), which in turn is derived from the Krebsbach on the same meadow, only about 60 m northeast. It flows through the area of the golf course in a slight curve and emerges from the walled area to the west at Wilhelmsbader Allee. Here it goes directly into the grounds of the Wilhelmsbad spa park. The Braubach supplies the water for the pond with an artificial ruin and pyramid.
After its course through the pheasantry and the spa gardens, the Braubach enters a former Main river bed, where the Säulbach coming from Wachenbuchen flows west of the Hohe Tanne at the Hanau-West motorway junction .
It runs largely parallel to the Bundesautobahn 66 and crosses under it and the Frankfurt – Hanau railway line northeast of Dörnigheim . In Dörnigheim, too, it retains its basic direction from east to west. West of Maintal bath flows him the Landgraben to that of the slopes between Berger back comes and Maintal-Hochstadt. Now the Braubach turns to the south-south-west, flows through the Surfsee and Höllsee and flows south of this into the Main.
The approximately 7.5 km long course of the Braubach ends approximately 9 meters below its source, so it has an average bed gradient of 1.2 ‰.
Catchment area
The approximately 25 km² large catchment area of the Braubach lies in the Lower Maine plain and is drained from it via the Main and the Rhine to the North Sea.
It borders
- in the northeast to that of the Krebsbach , which drains over the Fallbach and Kinzig into the Main
- in the east to that of the Kinzig tributary Salisbach
- in the south to that of the Main
- in the west to that of the Main tributary Riedgraben
- and in the north to that of the Nidder , which drains over the Nidda into the Main.
Tributaries
- Säulbach ( right ), (with creek ditch ) 4.3 km, 8.57 km²
- Gondelbach [GKZ 2479452] ( right ), 4.2 km
- Landgraben ( right ), 3.6 km
Dates and character
Major parts of the Braubach run in an Ice Age oxbow lake of the Main, which is recognizable as a swampy zone overgrown by reeds. This oxbow lake started in the area of the Kinzig estuary, runs as a Weihergraben or Lache through Kesselstadt and continues south of the Hohe Tanne via Dörnigheim to the Enkheimer , the adjoining Seckbacher Ried and the Frankfurt Osthafen .
River history
The upper reaches of the Braubach were probably only created by humans in modern times. To create the waters in the Wilhelmsbad spa park, water had to be diverted from two brooks, the Salis brook and the Kreb brook east of the pheasantry. The creation of overflows and connecting ditches meant that the Salisbach lost its upper course, the Mittelbuchen brook , which now drained into the Krebsbach. The Krebsbach in turn lost its independent confluence with the Kinzig in the 20th century and drains via Salisbach and Fallbach into the Kinzig, and via the Braubach into the Main. Originally the Säulbach , today the largest tributary, was the most important source branch of the Braubach.
The construction of connecting ditches between these brooks did not cause any great difficulties due to the small height differences and flow speeds. Some of the brooks run in oxbow lakes that already existed in the Vistula and Würm Glaciers , when the Kinzig still flowed from Rückingen to the northwest and flowed into the Main at Hochstadt. It shows an irregular river system, the course of which is occasionally shown differently in the area of the discharges of the Krebs, Salis and Braubach in maps.
The eastern section of the Braubach flows on the edge of the Wilhelmsbad-Wolfganger drifting sand area past extensive sand dunes , most of which are now forested. Numerous, predominantly Bronze Age barrows in the area of the sand dunes testify to prehistoric settlement , including in the Bruchköbeler Forest (destroyed during the construction of the Hanau-Nord motorway access), in the Hochstädter Töngeswald and in the community forest of Dörnigheim.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
- ↑ Designation according to the property map
- ^ A b Kurt Lotz: The history of the earth or geology of the Hessian Kinzig valley. Dausien, Hanau 1983, ISBN 3-7684-6359-1 , pp. 119-121.
- ↑ Kurt Lotz: The history of the earth or geology of the Hessian Kinzig valley. Dausien, Hanau 1983, ISBN 3-7684-6359-1 , pp. 130-132.
- ↑ Hugo Birkner : A stone chamber grave from the urnfield period from Bruchköbel near Hanau. In: Prehistorische Zeitschrift 34/35, 1949/50, pp. 266–272; Peter Jüngling : The Bronze Age burial ground in the Bruchköbler Forest near Hanau. Wiesbaden 1982 (= Archaeological Monuments in Hessen 24 ).
- ^ Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann : Grave mound in the "Töngeswald" near Hochstadt. In: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany 27. Hanau and the Main-Kinzig district. Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8062-1119-1 , pp. 212-215.
- ^ Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann: Grave mound in the community forest of Dörnigheim. In: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany 27. Hanau and the Main-Kinzig district. Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8062-1119-1 , pp. 211f.
literature
- Kurt Lotz: The history of the earth or geology of the Hessian Kinzig valley. Dausien, Hanau 1983, ISBN 3-7684-6359-1 , pp. 130-132.
