Dielbach

Dielbach
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Water code	DE : 235814
location	Rhineland-Palatinate ; Germany
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Sauer  → Rhine  → North Sea
source	in the southwestern Wasgau 49 ° 7 ′ 17 ″  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 57 ″  E
Source height	330  m above sea level NN
muzzle	north-east of Ludwigswinkel in the Mühlweiher coordinates: 49 ° 5 '5 "  N , 7 ° 40' 51"  E 49 ° 5 '5 "  N , 7 ° 40' 51"  E
Mouth height	225  m above sea level NN
Height difference	105 m
Bottom slope	19 ‰
length	5.6 km
Catchment area	7.632 km²

The Dielbach is an approximately 5.6 km long left tributary of the Sauer in the southern Palatinate .

course

The Dielbach rises at an altitude of 330  m above sea level. NN in the western Wasgau in a deciduous forest area on the northeast slope of the Hohe Kopf northwest of the Gypsy rock. It flows in a south-southeast direction through the Great Dielbachtal . After about 600 m it is strengthened by a small inlet on the right. The Dielbach now flows around the Dielkopf to the west . North of the deserted Faunerhof , it meets the L487 and then changes its direction to the south. His path, on which he is accompanied by the L 487 , now leads through the Faunertal nature reserve past the Faunerhof desert on his right and the Hirtenberg on the left. As it continues through the nature reserve, it is dammed in a series of small ponds. It still crosses under the L 478 and finally flows northeast of Ludwigswinkel at an altitude of 225  m above sea level. NN underground in the mill pond .

Mill pond

The Mühlweiher , also called Saarbacher Hammer , is a 4.5 hectare pond. It is 4 m deep at its deepest point. The color of its surface varies between pale brownish yellow and yellow. It was created in the 18th century for the "Saarbacher Hammer" hammer mill operated by water power. In 1919 it was drained and used as meadow and pasture. In the thirties, however, it was dammed again and has served as a fishing and bathing water since then.

nature

Beech vegetation predominates in its headwaters and in the large Dielbachtal . The common beech and the sessile oak are found there. The area is characterized by old wood islands and dead wood . In the herb layer , the whitish grove , the wiry Schmiele , the broad-leaved thorn fern , the wood sorrel and the blueberry grow .

To the north-west of the Faunerhof desert there is a rest of wet meadows with heathland and afforested spruce stands . The stream is straightened there and without the local bank vegetation.

The Upper Fauner Valley nature reserve is a very species-rich biotope . Many protected animal and plant species can be found there.

The sweet grasses are with the pointed and the flutter rush , with the field-grove and the forest ledge , the swamp , bladder , beak , millet and panicle sedge , the red ostrich , the common Ruch- , the woolly honey and the reed canary grass , the oat grass , the red fescue and broadleaf cattail particularly well represented.

Endangered plant species include brook spring herb , real watercress , blood-eye , mountain pea , marsh willowherb , pennywort , lower bedstraw , real bedstraw , skullcap , pond water star , common frog spoon , panicle sedge , common marsh rush , reed fescue and called simple hedgehog .

Endangered animal species are spiders ( zebra , wasp spider ), dragonflies ( common rush , horseshoe, azure , blue-green damsel , great pitch dragonfly , great blue arrow ), amphibians ( mountain , pond newt , pond frog ), reptiles ( forest lizard ) and birds ( Brook wagtail , gray wagtail ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
2. ↑ ^{a b} GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )
3. ^ Saarbacher Hammer ( Memento from January 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Buchenwald am Großer Dielbachtal ( Memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
5. ↑ Remnants of wet meadows in the Dielbach Valley ( memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Oberes Fauner-Tal )