Durach (Rhine)
| Durach | ||
 Mühlental with Durach around 1850 |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | CH : 670 | |
| location | Canton of Schaffhausen ; Switzerland | |
| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Rhine → North Sea | |
| source |
Randen West of Bargen SH 47 ° 46 ′ 50 " N , 8 ° 34 ′ 49" E |
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| Source height | 744 m above sea level M. | |
| muzzle | in Schaffhausen in the Upper Rhine
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| length | 15.2 km | |
| Discharge at the Durach A Eo gauge : 16.6 km² Location: 2.2 km above the mouth |
NNQ (11/03/1985) MNQ 1958/2006 MQ 1958/2006 Mq 1958/2006 MHQ 1958/2006 HHQ (07/22/1972) |
9 l / s 45 l / s 391 l / s 23.6 l / (s km²) 14.5 m³ / s 49 m³ / s |
The Durach is a river that runs mainly in the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen and which flows into the Upper Rhine from the right and north in the city of Schaffhausen . It drains large parts of the Rand and the western part of the Reiat .
Surname
The origin of the name "Durach" is not clearly established. The chronicler Rüeger derives it from the Latin "dura aqua" (hard or rough water). Other name researchers see the origin of the name in the Celtic "Thur" and "Aha". This means “dry water”, a stream that often dries up.
In the area of the Mühlental, the Durach is also sometimes called Mühlentalbach . Within the city one called the Durach in the lower reaches Gerberbach ; resident tanners used the water to make leather from cattle hides.
geography
course
The Durach rises west of Bargen SH and has two sources,
- the Randenbrunnen ( 760 m above sea level ) below the Hohe Randen ( 930 m above sea level ), which is still in Germany, and
- the Iblenquelle on ( 744 m above sea level ) below the Hagen .
The associated, both 3 km long spring arms unite after converging eastward in the center of Bargen to Durach, which then flows quite steadily southwards. Below the village near Schlauch , the state border between Switzerland and Germany accompanies the Durach for a few hundred meters. Below Merishausen it flows through the wide Merishausertal , which is an important traffic route between Zurich and the Alpine foothills on the one hand and Stuttgart and the upper Danube and Neckarland on the other, used by the A4 .
At Geissberg , near the lodging house , where the village of Berslingen stood until around 1200 , the Durach leaves this section of the valley behind. The out of the Freudental flowing, on the last section eingedolte Freudental creek , which here flows from the north into the Durach. It continues to flow through the Mühlental, which is narrowed in places to the gorge, towards the south. Since the time of industrialization, some industrial companies such as Georg Fischer AG have settled here. In this section the Durach is overturned in sections. From the West finally flows out of the Hemmentalertal nor inhibiting Taler Bach in the Durach. In the area of the Schwabentor , one of the last remnants of the former city fortifications of Schaffhausen, the Durach merged with the Fulach flowing from Thayngen . Until the 19th century, a town pond served as a fire fighting pond at this point . Then the Durach flowed through the city in an open canal. Regular floods threatened city residents. In 1936 the river was overturned and from then on flowed under the Bachstrasse towards its confluence with the Upper Rhine . Since the opening of the A4 city passage in 1997, the Durach has flowed in a canal below the slab of the Fäsenstaubtunnels. At the end of the Mühlental, not far from the Schaffhausen train station , the Fäsenstaubtunnel crosses under the Mühlental. At this point the Durach is directed into the tunnel. The Durach then flows into the Rhine at the A4 cable-stayed bridge . The old canal through the city only serves as an overflow during high water.
To reduce the risk of flooding for the city, a 50 meter long and 5 meter high dam was built in the Merishausertal in 2014. The resulting natural retention basin, planted with a lean meadow, has a capacity of 61,000 m³ and can protect the city from a flood of the century.
Tributaries and side valleys
- Hofbach, left and west-north-western upper reaches
- Iblen, right and west-southwest upper reaches
- Löllbach, from the left and east-northeast between B argen and the section called the border stream to Baden-Württemberg
- Laabach, from the right and west-north-west near Merishausen-Bad
- (Brook from the hollow ditch ), from the right and northwest in Merishausen
- (Bach from the Doschdetal ), from the right and overall west-north-west in Merishausen
- Grätental , from the left and northeast at the end of Merishausen. Apparently dry valley
- Freudentalbach, from the left and north to Schaffhausen-Ziegelhütte
- Orseretal . from the right and northwest across from the Geissberg. Apparently dry valley
- Hemmentalerbach, from the right and northeast at the beginning of the closed development of Schaffhausen
- Fulach , from the left and northeast in Schaffhausen
Web links
- City archive Schaffhausen: Historical pictures of the Durach
- City Archives Schaffhausen: Historical pictures of the Gerberbach in the city of Schaffhausen
- Schaffhauser AZ: Edition of July 18, 2013, page 16
- Schaffhauser Bock: The missing Stadtbach
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsches Gewässerkundliches Jahrbuch Danube region 2006, single sheet Durach gauge . Bavarian State Office for the Environment, accessed on October 4, 2017, at: hnd.bayern.de (PDF, German).
- ↑ www.schaffhausen.ch: The Engestieg Retention Dam has been created; dated December 6, 2013