Brend (river)
| Brend | ||
 The Brend Source |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | DE : 24432 | |
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Rhön
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| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Franconian Saale → Main → Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | near Oberweißbrunn 50 ° 25 ′ 29 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 33 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 750 m above sea level NHN | |
| muzzle | near Bad Neustadt in the Franconian Saale Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 23 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 21 ″ E 50 ° 19 ′ 23 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 21 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | approx. 230 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | approx. 520 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 17 ‰ | |
| length | 29.7 km | |
| Catchment area | 139.85 km² | |
| Runoff at the Schweinhof gauge (79.4% of the catchment area) |
NNQ MNQ MQ MHQ HHQ (1965) |
50 l / s 249 l / s 1.59 m³ / s 30.7 m³ / s 76.7 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Schwarzbach, Liederbach, Weißbach, Lembach, Bersbach | |
| Right tributaries | Vorderer Haselbach, Hinterer Haselbach, Debach, Krummbach, Liesbach, Solzbach | |
The Brend is an orographic right and northwestern tributary of the Franconian Saale in the districts of Fulda (Hesse) and Rhön-Grabfeld (Bavaria), almost 30 kilometers long .
Surname
The name Brend comes from the Indo-European word bhrendh that swell means out. The river gave the place Brendlorenzen its name.
geography
source
The Brend rises in the Rhön from several sources in the Bischofsheimer district of Oberweißbrunn. The main source is on Hessian soil about 600 meters northeast of the Schwedenschanze pass . The captured Brendquelle can be found from the parking lot on the top of the pass or coming up the bike path from Oberweißbrunn , if you leave the Schwedenschanze on the left and follow the right of the two forest paths for about one kilometer into the forest. At a small sign on a tree, a few steps lead down to the right. After another 50 meters, the Brend rises from the rock.
course
The Brend flows within the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park and the Rhön Biosphere Reserve through Oberweißbrunn, Bischofsheim, Unterweißbrunn and Wegfurt to Schönau an der Brend , where it leaves the Nature Park. It flows on in the biosphere reserve via Brendlorenzen to Bad Neustadt and flows east of the old town into the Franconian Saale, a tributary of the Main .
River systems
biosphere
Flora and vegetation
On the upper reaches of the Brend , butterbur grows along the stream . The Davallseggenriede are favored by the calcareous water. The characteristic sour grass species such as broad-leaved cotton grass , flea sedge and Davall s sedge as well as a large variety of flowering plants can be found there, in particular orchids such as marsh stendrums , mosquitoes and spotted orchid . Giant horsetail grow on the limestone steps . The Märzenbecher also appears at the Brend.
fauna
On the banks of the Brend the fire salamander , the European brook-fish , the snipe , the meadow pipit , the dipper and the corn crake are native. Grayling , brown trout , brown lamprey , minnow , gudgeon and Mühlkoppe are found in the river itself .
Transport links
The Bad Neustadt – Bischofsheim railway in the Brend valley was shut down in 1989. The Brendtal cycle path runs along the former railway embankment. The federal road 279 runs through the valley. Shortly before it flows into the Franconian Saale, Bundesstraße 19 crosses the Brend.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Directory of creek and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 99 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB)
- ↑ a b page no longer available , search in web archives: Fischereiverband Unterfranken: Brend
- ↑ Bavarian flood news service (as of September 6, 2011)
- ^ Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 41 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b Rhön in the river: The Brend