Dammbach (Bühler)

	Dammbach
	Dammbachtal with meadow slope on the right and forest Brettheimer on the left, shortly after the inlet of the Hettensbach .
	Data
Water code	DE : 2386652
location	Swabian-Franconian forest mountains Ellwanger Mountains; Hohenloher and Haller level Vellberger Bay; Baden-Württemberg Schwäbisch Hall district municipality Bühlertann ; ;
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Bühler → Kocher → Neckar → Rhine → North Sea
source	about 0,5 km north of Buehlertann -Hettensberg ; 49 ° 2 '42 " N , 9 ° 57' 30" O
Source height	approx. 495 m above sea level NHN
muzzle	approx. 150 m south of the Bühlertanner industrial park from the right and east in the Bühler coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 9 ″ N , 9 ° 54 ′ 44 ″ E 49 ° 2 ′ 9 ″ N , 9 ° 54 ′ 44 ″ E;
Mouth height	approx. 371 m above sea level NHN
Height difference	approx. 124 m
Bottom slope	approx. 31 ‰
length	4 km
Catchment area	5.349 km²
Left tributaries	Hettensbach

The Dammbach is a four kilometer long stream in the area of the municipality of Bühlertann in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in north-eastern Baden-Württemberg , which flows south of the town from the right into the Bühler .

Surname

The name Dammbach probably originated from Tanbach and is more related to the Bühlertal spur Tannenberg to the left of the lower course on which the Tannenburg stands than to the word Damm .

geography

source

The Dammbach springs according to official maps about half a kilometer north of Buehlertann-Hettensberg little west of County Road 2637 Hettensberg- Frankenhardt - Hinteruhlberg in the starting Quickblade to about 490 m above sea level. NHN . Its valley cut continues upwards as a shallow trough on the plateau of the Ellwang Mountains between the two hamlets a few hundred meters further to the northeast to over the southwestern tip of the large Schäfer forest area , which is about 502 m above sea level. NHN lies. Here, in the east of the K 2637, you can still find a further 200 meters of a developed stream bed in nature, which also often carries water in summer and is accompanied by wood in the lower part.

course

In the steep and wooded Schnellklinge , a deep marl gorge, the brook flows - if it is not dry here, as is often the case in summer - to the west and occurs after about 600 meters at about 425 m above sea level. NHN on the already flat lower slope into the open hallway. From now on there are almost only meadows and pastures in the already very wide valley basin. After a good kilometer it reaches about 409 m above sea level. NHN from the left the somewhat longer Hettensbach . After that, the Dammbach flows steadily for about another kilometer on the left edge of the valley, on its left bank is the slope forest of the Brettheimer . Soon the stream slowly turns its course to the southwest, after about 1.7 kilometers a shorter stream flows from the Brettheimer to it. Soon afterwards a wide, brookless side valley flows down from the right from the west of the Vetterhöfe, with meadows that are often quite moist. Two and a half kilometers below its source, a bridge crosses its course, over which a field path from Bühlertann-Halden leads from the top of the Tannenberg mountain tongue that accompanies the valley to the left to the Vetterhöfe on the right ridge, which is deeper here. A heather area soon begins on the slope where motocross drivers practice their skills. Approximately opposite this, a sloping ditch opens out of the trough from the left . Further down the valley, the stream becomes noticeably straighter; a parallel drainage ditch runs alongside him for a while on a wet meadow. In the meantime, the Tannenburg is visible on the spur of the left ridge and after another dirt road over it, the Dammbach crosses in a tube under the route of the provincial road 1060 Bühlertann – Fronrot that has been heaped up to the dam , which climbs the path on the Tannenberghalde against the Dammbach. On the other side of the dam, the Dammbach enters the Bühlertalaue and is led in a dead-straight, 300-meter-long ditch to the northwest to the Bühler , into which it flows south of the Bühlertann industrial area in the Bruckwiesen and a little before a weir where the Channel to the village mill goes off to the other side, at about 371 m above sea level. NHN and flows four kilometers below its source from the left.

Catchment area

The Dammbach drains an area of 5.3 km², the portion of which lies in the east on the plateau and on the ridge that surrounds the valley in brackets on the left and right in the lower natural area of the Ellwang Mountains of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains . The other Dammbachtal and the part to the west in the Bühleraue, on the other hand, are part of the Vellberger Bucht in the Hohenloher and Haller Ebene natural area . The highest point is on the north-eastern tip a little south of Hinteruhlberg at about 514 m above sea level. NHN .

The right, north-western watershed runs from here over the Geigersberg spur down to a middle terrain platform at Vetterhöfe and on its back to a water reservoir; up to that point, the next large right-hand Bühler tributary, the Nesselbach, drains the opposite side. On the further section on the same ridge up to the mouth of the river lies the catchment area of a now waterless valley basin in the Bühlertanner local area.

East of the watershed on the plateau from the highest point at Hinteruhlberg to the northern edge of Fronrot borders the catchment area of the Blinden Rot running to the Kocher , which competes here via its right tributaries Kaltenbach and then Forellenbach .

In the south, behind the long spur from Fronrot to Tannenburg, the Avenbach collects the runoff almost to the end, then the short Elsäßerbach for only a short section , both are also tributaries now above the Bühler.

A large part of the catchment area, a total of over 3.5 km², has been designated as the Dammbachtal landscape protection area with adjacent mountain ranges since 1983 .

Tributaries

List of tributaries and lakes from source to mouth. Length of water, catchment area and altitude according to the corresponding layers on the LUBW online map. Other sources for the information are noted.

According to official maps, the origin of the Dammbach is at about 490 m above sea level. NHN in the upper Schnellklinge west of the K 2637 from Bühlertann- Hettensberg to Frankenhardt - Hinteruhlberg about 500 meters north of Hettensberg. The stream initially flows west.
In nature, above the Schnellklinge, in a flat valley basin that continues a quarter of a kilometer northeast on the plateau of the Ellwang Mountains, there is a further 200 meters of a well-developed stream bed, which also often carries water in summer and is accompanied by wood in the lower part.

Hettensbach , from the left and southwest to about 408.9 m above sea level. NHN on the northern edge of the Brettheimer forest about 450 meters southeast of the Vetterhöfe , 1.3 km and about 0.7 km². Arises little above 490 m above sea level. NHN west of the road through Hettensberg.
Drained to about 490 m above sea level by 2014 . NHN the extinguishing water pond in the center of Hettensberg; now filled up.
The Dammbach itself is 1.0 km long from the Schnellklinge to this point and has a partial catchment area of around 0.9 km².
A little later it flows west-southwest to southwest for a long time.

(Bach from the Brettheimer ), from the left and southeast to about 398 m above sea level. NHN south opposite the Vetterhöfen, approx. 0.3 km and approx. 0.8 km². Arises in its forest blade noticeably below 410 m above sea level. NHN .

(Dig out of the trough ), from the left and southeast to about 386 m above sea level. NHN opposite the motocross area, approx. 0.4 km and approx. 0.3 km². Arises at about 410 m above sea level. NHN in the area of a small filled gypsum pit.

(Drainage ditch), from the left and south to about 374 m above sea level. NHN after crossing under the dam on Landesstraße 1060 in the flat Bühleraue along the Kottspiel –Bühlertann cycle path , approx. 0.1 km.
The Dammbach flows from the state road west-northwest in a dead straight ditch.

(Drainage ditch), from the left and southwest to about 373 m above sea level. NHN , approx. 0.1 km.

Mouth of the Dammbach from the right and finally east-southeast to about 371 m above sea level. NHN a little south of the Bühlertanner industrial park in the Bruckwiesen in the middle Bühler . The Dammbach is 4.0 km long from the official source in the Schnellklinge and has a catchment area of 5.3 km².

Localities

The Dammbachtal is uninhabited. The tributary Hettensbach arises near the hamlet of Hettensberg, which is a little on this side of the eastern watershed on the plateau. From the hamlet of Fronrot alone a few houses around the church to the Dammbach drain. Otherwise, only the Vetterhöfe on the middle course are on the right ridge halfway up, the single house Tannenberghalden on the Steige of Landstrasse 1060 and possibly the Tannenburg itself at the very front on the Tannenberg on the left in the catchment area.

The stream belongs to the municipality of Bühlertann as a whole , as does the catchment area, with the exception of a small area on the northeastern tip around Hinteruhlberg, which, like this hamlet itself, lies on the municipality mark of Frankenhardt . All other settlement areas mentioned here belong to Bühlertann.

geology

The course of the Dammbach begins at the edge of the sandstone strata ( Hassberge Formation ), which a small, now filled quarry a little north of the source testified to. The stream runs very quickly down the sequence of layers to the Gipskeuper ( Grabfeld formation ), in which the greater part of the stream lies. In the area of the upper course there are some levels of leveling on the left slope above the corbula bank of the gypsum keuper or the estheria layers, which are mostly used for agriculture. In the upper, wooded part of the mentioned streamless valley, which leads to the middle reaches from the right, there is a series of sinkholes . A larger plateau to the right of the Unterlauf, Steinäcker district , is also located on the Corbula Bank. Over the Mahd district to the north-east in the direction of Vetternhöfe , the terrain rises steadily to the reed sandstone ( Stuttgart formation ), which on the ridge around the Vetterhöfe itself takes up large areas that are under the plow.

Landscape protection area

The Dammbach runs almost along its entire length in the Dammbachtal landscape protection area with adjacent mountain ranges . It was designated with the number 1.27.048 on July 12, 1983 by the Schwäbisch Hall district office and has a size of around 363 hectares.

Individual evidence

LUBW

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

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Height according to the contour line image on the background layer topographic map .

↑ ^a ^b Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .

↑ ^a ^{b Catchment} area according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .

↑ ^a ^b Origin according to the background layer topographic map and the layer water network (AWGN) .

↑ Landscape protection area after the layer of the same name.

↑ Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map .

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Height according to black lettering on the background layer topographic map .

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Length measured on the background layer topographic map .

Other evidence

↑ Modeled values according to the discharge BW water node MQ / MNQ
↑ The Ellwang valid and legal book of 1339 names a farm in Tanbach as belonging to the Tannenburg in a list of nearby locations; for Tanbach , only today's Dammbach at the foot of the castle comes into question. See the chapter on Bühlerthann in the description of the Oberamt Ellwangen from 1886.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Personal observation.
↑ Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
^ "From pond to village square" , article from August 12, 2014 on the website of the Haller Tagblatt .
↑ Geology according to the geological map listed under → Literature . A rough overview also provides: Mapserver of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes )

literature

Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North, as single sheet No. 6925.
Geological map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North, sheet no. 6925 Obersontheim, with explanatory booklet.

Web links

Commons : Dammbach - Collection of Images

Wikisource: Bühlerthann in the description of the Oberamt Ellwangen from 1886 - sources and full texts

Map of the course and catchment area of the Dammbach on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
Measuring table sheet 6925 Obersontheim from 1936 in the Deutsche Fotothek

[TK-HLB-Höhe-1] Height according to the contour line image on the background layer topographic map .

[4] Modeled values according to the discharge BW water node MQ / MNQ

[WOAB-Bühlertann-5] The Ellwang valid and legal book of 1339 names a farm in Tanbach as belonging to the Tannenburg in a list of nearby locations; for Tanbach , only today's Dammbach at the foot of the castle comes into question. See the chapter on Bühlerthann in the description of the Oberamt Ellwangen from 1886.

[EB-7] Personal observation.

[BfL-162-8] Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)

[HT-2014-08-12-12] "From pond to village square" , article from August 12, 2014 on the website of the Haller Tagblatt .

[LGRB-Geologie-14] Geology according to the geological map listed under → Literature . A rough overview also provides: Mapserver of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes )