Banzerbach

Banzerbach upper reaches on the main line: Weiherbach, Buxbach
View down the valley over the Banzerbach below the crossing railway line
Data
Water code	DE : 242124
location	Middle Franconian basin Bavaria Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district Pfofeld municipality (only OL ) Municipality Pleinfeld
River system	Danube
Drain over	Swabian Rezat  → Rednitz  → Regnitz  → Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
origin	Zsfls. Buxbach / Walker Zellerbach : Pleinfeld- St. Veit 49 ° 6 '13 "  N , 10 ° 57' 10"  O Q. Weiher trench : Pfofeld- Sorghof 49 ° 6 '56 "  N , 10 ° 52' 16"  O
Source height	approx.  424  m above sea level NHN  main line
	approx.  386  m above sea level NHN name run
muzzle	south of Pleinfeld from the left and west-north-west in the Swabian Rezat Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 47 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 56 ″  E 49 ° 5 ′ 47 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 56 ″  E
Mouth height	approx.  375  m above sea level NHN
Height difference	approx. 49 m
Bottom slope	approx. 5.4 ‰
length	Name run from Zsfls. near Sankt Veit:
	approx. 2.6 km main line from Q. Weihergraben : approx.  9.1 km
Catchment area	19.99 km²
Residents in the catchment area	5,000

The Banzerbach is little more than 2.5 km long lower reaches one on the main line to the headwaters pond digging and then Buxbach 9 km long river system in Central Franconia district of Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen , the little south of Pleinfeld from the left and west in the Swabian Rezat opens .

geography

Weihergraben upper course

The Weihergraben is being created in the Pfofeld community, close to the Sorghof, south of the Gunzenhausen – Pleinfeld railway at around 424  m above sea level. NHN . It follows the eastern course of the railway line, on one section mainly through a field, also underground. Where the road from Sorghof to Thannhausen crosses the railway embankment in the south, there are three nameless ponds with a total of around 0.9 hectares next to the run at a group of agricultural buildings . Half a kilometer further down the stream, the Weihergraben flows at around 410  m above sea level. NHN merges with the slightly shorter, but significantly richer catchment area, the Bachwiesengraben to the Buxbach .

The Weihergraben has a gradient of around 14 meters along its course of around 1.7 km in length and thus a mean bottom gradient of around 8 ‰. It moves in an almost always woodless ditch between fields and some meadows.

Middle Buxbach

The Buxbach, formed north-northeast of Thannhausen, runs east-south-east throughout its 4.7 km long section of the Banzerbach main line. It initially flows through a pond at the foot of the western Zellersberg , which is wooded here down to the course. Immediately afterwards it crosses over to the area of ​​the market town of Pleinfeld , takes the Espangraben from the right from the direction of Thannhausen and reaches the western edge of Veitserlbach , where it runs through the village pond. At the other edge of the village, a hillside brook flows down from the Zellersberg from the left, after which the valley floor narrows sharply and the brook flows a little further south of Ramsberg between nearby hillside forests on the left and right. Here also occurs state road 2222 from Gunzenhausen in the west to the east-southeast Pleinfeld in the floodplain. After the lying left of the Running courses of Ramsbach over a kilometer Weiherkette sets Prince pond one, covering the combined ha between 8 and 8.5 area. At its end it is not far to the beginning of Sankt Veit , where the Buxbach and the Walkerszeller Bach coming from the right and west meet in a moist floodplain area with small ponds and drains south of the village at about 386  m above sea level. NHN united to the Banzerbach .

The Buxbach has a catchment area of ​​around 10.6 km² and on its name section a mean bed slope of around 5 ‰.

Lower Banzerbach

The Banzerbach initially flows almost southeast. Its valley, like that of the Buxbach in its lower part, is initially narrow and accompanied by nearby hillside forests. After leaving Sankt Veit, it runs in a trough between steeper embankments on the slope. Shortly before the Banzermühle he experiences a last inflow from the left, after which the whole valley fills with forest. The stream crosses under the embankment of the Treuchtlingen – Nuremberg railway line and then continues eastwards to the edge of the Swabian Rezat valley floodplain. Then it feeds the so-called landscape pond with a short side arm and finally flows, last of all, to the northeast, from the left and at about 374  m above sea level. NHN in the Swabian Rezat .

The Banzerbach has a length of about 2.6 km, on which it drops by about 12 meters in altitude, it thus has a mean bed gradient of about 5 ‰.

Catchment area

The Banzerbach drains 20.0 km² of the Central Franconian Basin eastwards to the Swabian Rezat. Its catchment area extends from 504  m above sea level. NHN high, nameless mountain between the municipality of Pfofeld and its northeastern wasteland, Sorghof, the highest mountain in the catchment area, over 9 km east-southeast to the mouth; across it it is up to 4 km wide.

Its southwestern watershed from the named unnamed mountain to Pfaffenberg ( 498  m above sea level ) south of Rittern is part of the European main watershed , because beyond that, the Dornhauser Mühlbach and the Störzelbach drain to the Danube tributary Altmühl . The runoff on the other side of the other watersheds, like the Banzerbach water, ultimately reaches the Rhine via the Swabian Rezat . The immediate competitors are on the southern watershed from Pfaffenberg to the confluence of the Vordere and Hintere Troppelgraben , both of which are very short streams. Behind the short north-eastern watershed from the mouth through the settlement area of ​​Pleinfeld to the Schwarzleite ( 448  m above sea level ) there are no significant left tributaries to the Swabian Rezat downstream of the Banzerbach mouth. The long northern watershed from the Schwarzleite back to the Westspitze separates the drainage area of ​​the large reservoirs Großer and - immediately above it - Kleiner Brombachsee , which the Brombach flows through to the east in a roughly parallel course to the Swabian Rezat.

Tributaries and lakes

Hierarchical list of tributaries and lakes from source to mouth. With water length, lake area, catchment area and altitude. Other sources for the information are noted.

Origin of the Banzerbach at about 386  m above sea level. NHN near Pleinfeld- Sankt Veit at the confluence of the left main course upper course Buxbach and the right upper course Walkerszeller Bach .

• Buxbach , left and west-north-western main course upper course of the Banzerbach, approx. 4.7 km on the name course and 6.4 km with the longer upper course Weihergraben and approx. 10.6 km². Arises from the confluence of Weihergraben and Bachwiesengraben at around 410  m above sea level. NHN north of Pfofeld- Thannhausen and runs approximately east- south- east.
  • Weihergraben , left upper course of the Buxbach on the official main line, approx. 1.7 km and approx. 1.0 km². Arises at about 424  m above sea level. NHN at the Pfofelder Einöde Sorghof and runs consistently to the east.
    • Drained to about 415  m above sea level. NHN three ponds on the left of the course north-northwest of Thannhausen, together approx. 0.9 ha.
  • Bachwiesengraben , right upper reaches of the Buxbach, approx. 1.6 km and approx. 2.6 km². Arises at about 424  m above sea level. NHN as a ditch on the St 2222, which passes the Sorghof in the south, and runs eastwards throughout.
  • Flows through to about 406  m above sea level. NHN a pond at the foot of the sloping forest of the Zellersberg that extends to the run , approx. 0.4 ha.
  • Espangraben , from the right and west-southwest to about 404  m above sea level. NHN shortly before Veitserlbach , approx. 1.0 km and approx. 0.8 km². Arises at about 419  m above sea level. NHN a little northeast of Thannhausen.
    • Drained to about 408  m above sea level. NHN a pond on the right of the lower course, approx. 0.2 ha.
  • Flows through to about 402  m above sea level. NHN the village pond in Veitserlbach, approx. 0.1 ha.
  • (Bach vom Zellersberg), from the left and northwest to about 402  m above sea level. NHN on the eastern edge of Veitserlbach, approx. 0.9 km and approx. 0.6 km². Flows at about 459  m above sea level. NHN a tiny hillside pond below Regelsberg .
    • (Inflow from a terrain map east of the Zellersberg), from the left and northeast to about 408  m above sea level. NHN on the edge of Veitserlbach, approx. 0.4 km and approx. 0.2 km². Arises at about 423  m above sea level. NHN in a lane in the forest.
      • Flows through to about 410  m above sea level. NHN a pond on a property in satellite location to Veitserlbach, approx. 0.1 ha.
  • Passed at about 397  m above sea level. NHN three floodponds south of Ramsberg am Brombachsee , approx. 0.2 ha.
  • By flows and happens to about 396- 389  m above sea level. NHN the Fürstenweiher , also called Veiter Weiher , a dozen of ponds mostly left in the floodplain from the sports fields of Ramberg to almost the outskirts of Sankt Veit, first five large ponds with a total of approx. 7.6 hectares, then six small ponds with a total of approx 0.8 ha.
• Walkerszeller Bach , right and western upper reaches of the Banzerbach, approx. 4.5 km and approx. 6.9 km². Rises at about 428  m above sea level. NHN northwest of Dorsbrunn at the southern foot of the Sommerleiten . Initially flows east-southeast.
  • (Other source branch), from the right and west-southwest to about 407  m above sea level. NHN a little northwest of Dorsbrunn, approx. 0.9 km and approx. 0.7 km². Arises at about 431  m above sea level. NHN west of the Rotfeld win . (The main branch here has a length of approx. 1.0 km and a catchment area of ​​approx. 0.7 km².) From here east run.
  • (Bach vom Pfaffenberg), from the right and southwest to about 399  m above sea level. NHN between Dorsbrunn and Walkerszell , approx. 1.6 km and approx. 1.6 km². Arises at about 471  m above sea level. NHN in the stone fields on a dirt road branch.
    • (Other source branch), from the left and west-southwest to about 418  m above sea level. NHN on a field lane triangle at the Wachholderbuck , approx. 0.6 km and approx. 0.4 km². (The receiving branch on the right has a length of approx. 0.8 km and a catchment area of ​​approx. 0.6 km².) Arises at around 488  m above sea level. NHN south of the climbing section of WUG 3 in a wood under the shoulder of the slope.
    • (Inflow), from the right and southeast to about 401  m above sea level. NHN next to WUG 3 to Walkerszell, approx. 0.1 km and approx. 0.2 km². Arises at about 404  m above sea level. NHN on the site of the waterworks next to the road.
  • Leithenbach , from the left and west-northwest to about 394  m above sea level. NHN a little northeast and opposite Walkerszell , approx. 0.7 km and approx. 0.4 km².
    • Drained to about 409  m above sea level. NHN a pond on the edge of the forest north-northwest of Walkerszell, approx. 0.3 ha.
  • Passed at about 391  m above sea level. NHN three elongated ponds to the right of the run a little before Banzerbachtalstrasse St 2222, approx. 0.6 ha.
• (Pond drainage), from the right and east to about 386  m above sea level. NHN a few steps after the confluence of the upper reaches of the Banzerbach, approx. 0.2 km and less than 0.1 km².
• Drains two ponds in a row up to about 388  m above sea level. NHN west of the valley road, approx. 0.1 ha.
• (Inflow), from the left and northwest to about 382  m above sea level. NHN at the Banzermühle , approx. 0.7 km and approx. 0.3 km². Arises at about 391  m above sea level. NHN a little east of Sankt Veit in the adjacent forest.
• (Branch to the landscape Weiher ), to and from the right to about 376- 315  m above sea level. NHN shortly before the mouth, approx. 0.2 km.
  • Flows through at about 375  m above sea level. NHN the landscape pond next to the ST 2222, approx. 0.1 ha.

Mouth of the Banzerbach from the left and west to about 374  m above sea level. NHN a little south of Pleinfeld in the Swabian Rezat . The stream is here on its course from the confluence of Buxbach with Walkerszeller Bach about 2.6 km, in the main line from the source of the Weihergraben 9.1 km long and has a catchment area of ​​20.0 km².

geology

In the catchment area of ​​the Banzerbach, geological layers stretch from the Black Jurassic on the higher heights down to the sandstone keuper in the valley up to the mouth. The highest watershed to the southwest has a closed Black Jura cover, which also continues along the southern to the plateau on the plain near Walkerszell . On the north there are two isolated Black Jurassic peaks east of Ramsberg on the vineyard and on the Zellersberg around Regelsberg. Around these high Lias there is a strip of Feuerletten , which also covers the Spielberg ( 442  m above sea level ) on the mouth of the Buxbach and Walkerszeller Bach. Everywhere else there is sandstone keuper, with the exception of the spur between the lower valley of the Banzerbach and that of the Hinteren Tröppelgraben south of it, where the terraced gravel lies, as well as the mouth area in the floodplain sediment of the Swabian Rezat.

Beaver dam near Veitserlbach

Nature and the environment, tourism

The Banzerbach has quality class II (moderately polluted). European beavers live in Tal . The entire upper valley of the right upper reaches of Walkerszeller Bach is a drinking water protection area.

The Banzerbachtal is cut relatively steep. A hiking trail runs through it from the Sorghof down to Sankt Veit , several cross it from north to south on routes through Thannhausen, through Veitserlbach, from Ramsberg and through Sankt Veit, the latter one of the Bavarian Main-Danube long-distance hiking trails. There are also some long-distance hiking trails on the left ridge to the Brombachsen.

Web links

• Course and catchment area of ​​the Banzerbach on: BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )
• Course and catchment area of ​​the Banzerbach on: Map service water management, FGN Bavarian State Office for the Environment ( information )

Individual evidence

BayernAtlas

Focused map with the layers used: Course and catchment area of ​​the Banzerbach
General introduction: BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Height requested (by right-clicking).
2. ↑ ^{a b} measured length.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Height according to black lettering on the BayernAtlas.
4. ↑ measured the area of ​​the lake.
5. ↑ measured catchment area.
6. ↑ Geology according to the layer geological map 1: 500,000 .
7. ↑ Geology according to the hiking trails layer .

Other items of evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Length according to the list of creek and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 37 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB).
2. ↑ ^{a b Catchment} area according to the list of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 37 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB).
3. ↑ Water quality in the Weißenburg - Gunzenhausen district (map from 2008)  ( 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. On regierung.mittelfranken.bayern.de (pdf)