Buchenbach (Murr)

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Buchenbach
The Buchenbach under the railway bridge just before the Murrtal

The Buchenbach under the railway bridge just before the Murrtal

Data
Water code DE : 238386
location Schurwald and Welzheimer Wald

Neckar basin

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Murr  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source at Königsbronnhof, municipality of Rudersberg
48 ° 53 ′ 30 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 59 ″  E
Source height approx.  425  m above sea level NHN
muzzle below Burgstall in the Murr Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '0 "  N , 9 ° 21' 6"  E 48 ° 56 '0 "  N , 9 ° 21' 6"  E
Mouth height 212.2  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 212.8 m
Bottom slope approx. 8.9 ‰
length 24 km
Catchment area 61.898 km²

The Buchenbach is a left tributary of the Murr in Baden-Württemberg . On its approximately 24 km long run, it mainly crosses the west of the Rems-Murr district and finally touches the Ludwigsburg district .

geography

course

The Buchenbach rises on the northern edge of the Berglen , the southwestern part of the Swabian-Franconian Forest . Its headwaters lie on the ridge between the municipalities of Berglen and Rudersberg south of the hamlet of Königsbronnhof. It runs through a blade to the west down into the valley and crosses several districts of the municipality of Berglen, namely Rettersburg and Oppelsbohm, in a southerly direction. The Buchenbachtal is the central valley of the mountains, which are grouped around it in a horseshoe shape; the Buchenbach, which takes in numerous small watercourses from the eastern and western slopes, drains most of the mountain landscape.

After about seven kilometers, near the Erlenhof district, the Buchenbach gives way in front of the Buocher Höhe in a sharp bend to the northwest and largely maintains this direction up to the mouth. At Birkmannsweiler he leaves the mountains and enters the more open landscape of the Neckar basin . In Winnenden it limits the old town to the northeast. After the next place, Leutenbach , the Buchenbach reaches the deeper layers of the shell limestone and begins to dig its way in a winding course into an ever deeper valley. The last places on the stream are the Leutenbach district of Weiler zum Stein as well as the hamlets of Steinächle and then Wolfsölden, which already belong to Affalterbach in the Ludwigsburg district.

At Steinächle, the penultimate, quite small street also crosses the stream, the narrow valley of which then deepens over the last five kilometers and finally no longer offers any space for settlements or agricultural use. This entire section of the valley, minus the two localities, is under nature protection (see below). Finally the Buchenbach flows into the Murr after about 24 km between Burgstall and Kirchberg ; shortly before that, the Backnang – Ludwigsburg railway spans it and a last road crosses it in the Murrtal.

Catchment area

The Buchenbach drains around 62 square kilometers, making it the second largest catchment area among the tributaries of the Murr after the Bottwar and at the same time the longest of them all. The catchment area is mainly in the mountains and on the northern slope of the Buocher Höhe, in the Neckar basin the river hardly enlarges it. Numerous smaller streams flow to it, of which only the Steinach is just over 4 km long, all the others are shorter.

The catchment area of ​​the Buchenbach is completely surrounded by those of other direct or indirect tributaries of the Neckar. These competitors are the Weißach and other Murr tributaries in the north, the Wieslauf in the east, the Rems in the south and the Zipfelbach in the southwest, which flows directly into the Neckar .

Larger tributaries

The origin of the Buchenbach is about 700 m southeast of the Rudersberg hamlet of Königsbronnhof on the edge of the forest next to the Wiesenhanggewann Brunnen at about 425  m above sea level. NHN .

The larger tributaries from the source to the mouth are (names preferred after TK25, courses and lengths according to LUBW-FG10):

  • (Inflow from the Gewann Brunnen ), from the right under the eastern Untreuhau, 0.5 km.
  • (Brook from the badger construction blade ), from the left, 0.7 km.
  • Fronwiesenbach , from the right after the exit of the forest from the southeastern edge of the village of Öschelbronn in the Berglen municipalities , 1.1 km
  • Weiherwiesenbach , from the left just before Rettersburg from the southern Waldgewann Königsbronn , 1.2 km.
  • Heutalbächle , from the left on the southern outskirts of Rettersburg, 1.3 km. Comes from a forest blade between Krumm bush in the north and Hagenbüchle south
  • Auwiesenbach , a few steps from the right, 2.3 km. Arises in the perforated blade west of Öschelbronn
  • Heumahdenbächle , from the right on the northern outskirts of Oppelsbohm, 0.7 km.
  • Rosenbach , from the left on the southern edge of Oppelsbohm, 2.2 km. With the longer right upper course of Kottenbach, which arises southwest of the Rudersberg hamlet Necklinsberg.
  • Steinach , from the left at the hamlet of Erlenhof, 4.0 km The Steinach arises east of Hößlinswart in the hillside forest. The north-west bend of the Buchenbach is close to the mouth
  • (Inflow from the Burrklinge ), from the left just before the Neumühle in the district of Birkmannsweiler von Winnenden, 0.5 km
  • (Inflow from a forest slope well), from the left at the southern exit from the L 1140 to Birkmannsweiler, 0.5 km
  • Buchenbächle , from the right a little closer to the south end of Birkmannsweiler, 2.9 km. Arises on the edge of the forest to the east of the Schulerhof and flows through the Schlot
  • Lower Bach , from the left through Birkmannsweiler, 1.2 km. Above the origin on the slope southwest of the village, the valley continues uphill in a clump of dry blades , including a lintel blade and a rush blade
  • Brunnbächle , in the lower reaches also Baacher Bächlein, from the right between Birkmannsweiler and Höfen, 3.7 km. Flows through Baach, originating in a blade east of the Hertmannsweiler Stöckenhof
  • Hertmannsweiler Bach , from the right between Höfen and Winnenden itself, 3.6 km. Origin at the edge of the northeastern bay at the winter dump northeast of Hertmannsweiler, which the stream then runs through
  • Hambach , from the left on the eastern edge of Winnenden, 2.5 km. The stream runs about half of its length parallel to the Buchenbach in its floodplain, its origin lies between Burkhardshof and the garbage dump.
    Then the Buchenbach crosses Winnenden and comes close to its left neighboring river Zipfelbach to less than 500 m
  • Rotbach , from the right in the southeast part of the village of Leutenbach in the community of Leutenbach , 3.0 km. Origin east of the municipality of Nellmersbach on the B 14
  • Höllachbach , on the north-western outskirts of Leutenbach, 3.0 km. Originates in the eastern Nellmersbach, which it passes through
  • Lerchengraben , from the right between Leutenbach and Weiler zum Stein, 1.5 km. Origin below the Birklen

In its meandering residual course in the Muschelkalktal, the Buchenbach no longer reaches any major tributaries for the following 7 km. The Buchenbach empties at 212.2  m above sea level. NHN from the left into the Murr , about one kilometer west of the Murrbrücke in the village of Burgstall in the municipality of Burgstetten .

places

Places and settlement areas along the course with their affiliations from the source to the mouth. Only the names of the lowest nesting level denote neighboring settlements.

Rems-Murr district

Ludwigsburg district

Rems-Murr district

  • Burgstetten municipality
    • (right, without settlement on the barrel)

Todays use

traffic

The valley of the Buchenbach is the central development axis of the mountains, which are of course a comparatively remote, rural area. Outside the mountains, the valley is criss-crossed by district roads as far as Weiler zum Stein , after which it is traffic-free and only partially accessible by hiking trails.

State of development

The Buchenbach is classified as a second order body of water along its entire length . According to the Water Act for Baden-Württemberg, the river bed is owned by the municipalities and they are also responsible for maintaining the water.

The upper and lower reaches of the stream are still largely natural and in 2004 were assigned to water structure quality classes I and II (“unchanged” to “moderately changed”). Only the more densely populated sections in the middle course of the stream between Birkmannsweiler and Leutenbach fall into classes III to V (“clearly” to “completely changed”).

natural reserve

The lower reaches from Steinächle and the valley flanks, for which the 118 hectare Buchenbachtal nature reserve was established, are under special protection . It is intended to protect the meadow valley there from unauthorized use, restore the deciduous forest and protect rare plant and animal species in the woodland . In 1989 it was spun off from the older Lower Murrtal landscape protection area , which, in addition to additional areas on both sides of the Buchenbach Valley, also includes larger parts of the Murrtal valley.

Large parts of the upper reaches are also under landscape protection. From the source to just before Rettersburg, the stream runs in the Southern Weissacher Tal and Berglen nature reserve, then to the entrance to Birkmannsweiler, interrupted only by the sections in the Rettersburg and Oppelsbohm area, in the Buchenbach, Brunnbächle, Steinach and Zipfelbachtal nature reserve adjacent slopes as well as citizen height .

The water quality of the Buchenbach is average for regional conditions. In the 2004 water report, three of four sections (at Rettersburg, Weiler zum Stein and at the mouth) are classified as "moderately polluted" ( quality class  II), but the section at Birkmannsweiler is classified as "critically polluted" (quality class II-III).

Individual evidence

LUBW

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

  1. ↑ Height according to the contour line image on the topographic map background layer .
  2. ↑ Height according to the blue lettering on the background layer topographic map .
  3. ↑ Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .
  4. ↑ Catchment area summed up from the sub-catchment areas according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .

Other evidence

  1. ↑ Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 171 Göppingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1961. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Water Act for Baden-Württemberg in the version of January 20, 2005  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.drs.baden-wuerttemberg.de  
  3. ↑ Water structure quality map in the Rems-Murr-Kreis  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rems-murr-kreis.de  
  4. ↑ State Office for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation - Protected Areas Directory ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de
  5. ↑ Water quality map Baden-Württemberg 2004 ( Memento from September 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

literature

  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as a single sheet
    • for the course of the river: No. 7022 Backnang, No. 7122 Winnenden and No. 7123 Schorndorf
    • for the rest of the catchment area: No. 7021 Marbach
  • Geological map of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park 1: 50,000, published by the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg i. Br. 2001.

Web links

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