Dammbach (Elsava)

	Dammbach
	The Dammbach near Wintersbach
	Data
Water code	DE : 247522
location	Spessart Bavaria Lower Franconia Aschaffenburg district; Miltenberg district ; ;
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Elsava → Main → Rhine → North Sea
source	Libischbrunnen on the road to Rohrbrunn ; 49 ° 53 ′ 21 ″ N , 9 ° 22 ′ 35 ″ E
Source height	338 m above sea level NHN
muzzle	at Neuhammer in Elsava Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 37 " N , 9 ° 17 ′ 15" E 49 ° 51 ′ 37 " N , 9 ° 17 ′ 15" E;
Mouth height	189 m above sea level NHN
Height difference	149 m
Bottom slope	15 ‰
length	9.9 km
Catchment area	43 km²
Left tributaries	Goessbach
Right tributaries	Wintersbach
	The Dammbach (back right) flows into the Elsava (view upstream)

The Dammbach is a left tributary of the Elsava in the districts of Aschaffenburg and Miltenberg in the Bavarian Spessart .

Surname

The name " Dammbach " is made up of the Middle High German words tam for a dam and bach . Dams for rafting were built on the Dammbach . The brook gave its name to the community of the same name in 1976 .

geography

course

The Dammbach rises from the Libischbrunnen behind the Krausenbacher Forst district . The source is near Rohrbrunn in the Upper Spessart on the state road 2317 below the Dammberg . The Dammbach flows through the municipality of Dammbach in a north-south direction, past the Burgstall Unterschn and the districts of Krausenbach and Wintersbach . In Krausenbach the Gößbach flows towards it from the left . Behind the town of Wintersbach, the Dammbach turns west and flows into the Elsava at Neuhammer .

Tributaries

Essigbach ( right )
Gößbach ( left )
Krausenbachgraben ( left )
Wintersbach ( right )

Elsava river system

List of rivers in the Elsava river system

Web links

Commons : Dammbach (Fluss) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Course and catchment area of the Dammbach on the BayernAtlas.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
^ 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. 52 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ Original position sheet of land surveying in Bavaria: Rohrbrunn and surroundings in 1850

[DE-BY_BV-1] BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )

[LfO-2] 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. 52 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[3] Original position sheet of land surveying in Bavaria: Rohrbrunn and surroundings in 1850