Elsterbach (Rhine)

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Elsterbach
upper course:  Laybach
The Elsterbach near Marienthal

The Elsterbach near Marienthal

Data
Water code EN : 2534
location Taunus

Rhine-Main lowlands

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Rhine  → North Sea
source north of Geisenheim - Stephanshausen
50 ° 2 ′ 42 ″  N , 7 ° 56 ′ 56 ″  E
Source height approx.  414  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in the Winkel district of Oestrich-Winkel from the right in the lower Upper Rhine Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 33 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 8 ″  E 49 ° 59 ′ 33 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 8 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  81  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 333 m
Bottom slope approx. 36 ‰
length approx. 9.3 km
Catchment area 14.615 km²
Drain
at the mouth 		MNQ
MQ
 8.4 l / s
65 l / s
Left tributaries Bell ditch, sheep ditch
Right tributaries Grundscheidbach

The Elsterbach is a good nine kilometers long, north-north-west and right tributary of the Rhine in the Rheingau .

geography

course

The Elsterbach has its origin a few 100 m north of the Geisenheim district Stephanshausen on a wooded southern slope of the Rheingau mountains at an altitude of approx. 400 m. It flows south through the center of Stephanshausen before disappearing again into the forest, where it is still fed by a right tributary - the Grundscheidbach.

Later, the bottom of the valley opens into a narrow clearing and the stream leads through the Marienthal monastery . Immediately south of the pilgrimage site , the Elsterbach crosses county road 984 and turns into the forest in a south-easterly direction.

Along the course of the stream, which is accompanied by the district road, there are several former mills, some of which are now used as excursion restaurants until it meets the first vineyards and reaches the Johannisberger Grund district . The stream then leaves the Geisenheim area and flows again through vineyards past the Johannisberger Klause to Winkel . There it crosses under the Koblenz-Wiesbaden railway line , then the town's main street and finally federal highway 42 before it flows into the Rhine.

Tributaries

Web links

Commons : Elsterbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
  2. ↑ a b c Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  3. ^ Adam Daniel: Old mills in the Rheingau - from the Walluf to the Wisper . Article from the Rheingauer Heimatbrief No. 68/1969 on rheingauer-heimatforschung de, accessed on December 10, 2018