Eichelbach (Fichtenberger Red)

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Eichelbach
Data
Water code DE : 23864992
location Swabian-Franconian forest mountains

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Fichtenberger Rot  → Kocher  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source a little northeast of Gschwend - Honkling
48 ° 57 ′ 54 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 9 ″  E
Source height approx.  470  m above sea level NHN
muzzle between Fichtenberg - Mittelrot and Gaildorf - Unterrot from the right into the lowest Fichtenberger Rot coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 56 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 21 ″  E 48 ° 58 ′ 56 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 21 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  331  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 139 m
Bottom slope approx. 38 ‰
length 3.6 km
Catchment area approx. 2.5 km²

The Eichelbach is a long stream running along the municipal boundaries of Gschwend in the Ostalb district and Gaildorf and Fichtenberg in the Schwäbisch Hall district of about three and a half kilometers in length in northeastern Baden-Württemberg , which runs between Fichtenberg- Mittelrot and Gaildorf- Unterrot from the right and southwest into the lowest Fichtenberger Red flows.

geography

course

The Eichelbach rises a few hundred meters north of the Gschwender hamlet Honkling in a small forest ledge from the Eselsklinge into the Buchäcker at about 470  m above sea level. NHN . After a few meters, the source drainage reaches the bottom of the north-running blade and now flows north on the municipality boundary from Gschwend to the small town of Gaildorf for around 800 meters. Then he gives way to the left in front of the swamp dump and circles the mountain in a right-hand arc, after which he continues to run steadily in an east-north-east to north-east direction. To his left is the narrow high plateau prominence of the Turmberg , which separates its valley from that of the nearby Rot.

Approximately below the so-called Röter Tower , the remnants of the Rötenberg Castle on the highest point of the Turmberg ( 456  m ), a clearing opens for the first time on the right lower slope. Along its downward edge the stream runs out of the Reippersberger Bühlklinge in the direction of Eichelbach; This tributary, which is still the most important at 1.2 km in length, flows back into a completely wooded valley. On the last kilometer of the run there is a second clearing on the right bank, then the brook enters the wide Rottal between the outflowing Turmberg on the left and the ascent to the plateau around Reippersberg on the right.

After winding its way through the forest in a quite natural course, the stream is now led in a dead straight trench through meadows northeast to the mouth; on this section it is again the municipal boundary. As one of the last brooks before the mouth of the Fichtenberger Rot itself, it flows to it at about 331  m in the Eichelwiesen , about half the way between the Fichtenberg hamlet Mittelrot and the Gaildorf village Unterrot.

The Eichelbach is 3.6 km long and with an absolute gradient of around 140 m has a relative bed gradient of around 39 ‰.

Catchment area

The Eichelsbach has a catchment area of about 2.5 km², the natural area seen by the southern and central parts of the subspace Kirnberger forest , with the rest of the subspace Gaildorfer pool of Franconian Schwäbisch Forest mountains belongs. Like its neighbors, the brook divides up and down the first level of terrain above the wide Rotaue up to the even higher sub-area of Welzheimer Wald in the south. In the west the Rauhenzainbach runs roughly in the same direction to the upward Rot, in the east the Braunsbach and - further on the plateau - the Schelbach to the downward. In the south of the small plateau, the Steigersbach competes eastwards to the Kocher, a little above the Rotzu estuary.

About two thirds of the area is forested, the field is open almost only on the plateau, where the fields dominate, and in the Rottalgrund, where there are more meadows. The stream itself is uninhabited, the only places in the catchment area are on its southern edge, namely a very small part of Honkling in the southwest and the entire Reippersberg in the southeast.

Tributaries

The Eichelbach has only one significant tributary. This is formed from a tree-like branching system of small forest blade cracks, often drying up at the top, a little north of the Gaildorf hamlet of Reippersberg, called Bühlklinge . Its sources are up to 465  m above sea level. NHN It runs northwards and flows after a run of 1.2 km at about 357  m above sea level. NHN almost opposite the Röter tower on the Turmberg in the Eichelbach. It drains approx. 0.8 km².

geology

The Eichelbach and its only tributary arise in the highest source location, for example in the transition area between the Stubensandstein ( Löwenstein Formation ) around Honkling and Leippersberg and the Upper Bunten Marln ( Mainhardt Formation ) below . The greater part of the course and the mouth are at the level of the gypsum keuper ( Grabfeld formation ). At the transition to the strip of flood sediment that accompanies the Rot broadly, the stream has deposited a small estuary fan.

Nature and protected areas

The Eichelbach meanders on the upper reaches up to a meter wide through one of the typical regional forest blades . He falls down a few steps. In sections there are extensive sintered calcium deposits . There is partly block rubble on the bottom, the sediment is gravelly, the banks are mostly steep.

At the confluence of the only larger tributary there is a wet meadow on which many globeflowers and orchids grow. After that, up to the exit from the valley forest into the Rottalaue, the stream shows stronger loops and widens to up to two meters, its bottom is now sandy to muddy. On the last three hundred meters over the open floodplain of the Rot, it snakes only slightly under its accompanying tree gallery.

The valley basin from the tributary of the Seitenbach from the Bühlklinge lies in the Rottal landscape protection area between Fichtenberg and Gaildorf with side valleys and adjacent valley slopes . The whole area is part of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park .

See also

Individual evidence

LUBW

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

  1. ↑ a b c d Height according to the contour line image on the background layer topographic map .
  2. ↑ a b Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .
  3. ↑ a b Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map .
  4. ↑ Protected areas according to the relevant layers, nature partly according to the biotope layer .

Other evidence

  1. ↑ Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 171 Göppingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1961. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Geology according to the layers for Geological Map 1: 50,000 on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes ). The geological map listed under → Literature offers a similar picture  .

literature

  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 7024 Gschwend
  • Geological map of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park 1: 50,000, published by the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg i. Br. 2001.

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