Elsbach (Landbach)

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Elsbach
Data
Water code DE : 2396284
location Hessian-Franconian mountainous region

Upper Rhine Plain

Hesse

River system Rhine
Drain over Landbach  → Modau  → Rhine  → North Sea
origin west of Ober-Beerbach in the western Odenwald
49 ° 45 ′ 45 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 49 ″  E
muzzle at Jugenheim from the right in the Landbach Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 28 "  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 35"  E 49 ° 45 ′ 28 "  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 35"  E

length 5.3 km
Catchment area 9.96 km²

The Elsbach is a right tributary of the Modau tributary Landbach in the municipality of Seeheim-Jugenheim in the Hessian district of Darmstadt-Dieburg .

geography

course

The Elsbach is a brook in the Vorderen Odenwald in the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Nature Park . Its source is in a wooded area on the western edge of the open field around Ober-Beerbach . It flows in a westerly direction through its forest valley and crosses the two “fairytale ponds” with a wooden shelter. Immediately behind the “fairytale ponds” the Elsbach flows past the “NABU project pond”.

Upon reaching Ober-Beerbacher Straße (K 143), the stream takes on a flowing water from the right and northeast, which is marked as the actual Elsbach upper reaches in official topographical maps. Following the county road, the brook crosses it at the entrance to Seeheim , which it then passes through, crossing the Alte Bergstrasse . From the western outskirts of Seeheim, the stream flows in a south-westerly direction and crosses the forest pond in a subsequent forest, where it also crosses the L 3106. On the north-western edge of Jugenheim , the Elsbach finally flows into the Landbach from the right and north.

Catchment area

The approximately 10 km² catchment area of ​​the Elsbach is located on the upper reaches in the Vorderen Odenwald , on the middle in the Bergstrasse natural area and on the lower reaches in the Hessian Rhine plain . It drains it over the Landbach, the Modau and the Rhine to the North Sea .

The catchment area is forested on the upper reaches, on the middle reaches settlement area and in the confluence area coniferous forest.

In the catchment area are the northern part of the FFH area Kniebrecht, Melibocus and Orbishöhe near Seeheim-Jugenheim, Alsbach and Zwingenberg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WFD kilometrage
  2. ↑ WFD land register
  3. ↑ NATURA 2000: overview map