Eltengraben
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Southwest German step country
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| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Main → Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | between Haßfurt - Wülflingen and Theres - Obertheres 50 ° 1 ′ 43 ″ N , 10 ° 27 ′ 39 ″ E |
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| Source height | 270 m above sea level NHN | |
| muzzle | east of Obertheres in the Main Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 12 ″ N , 10 ° 27 ′ 45 ″ E 50 ° 1 ′ 12 ″ N , 10 ° 27 ′ 45 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 216 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | 54 m | |
| Bottom slope | 39 ‰ | |
| length | 1.4 km | |
The Eltengraben is an almost one and a half kilometer long right and northern tributary of the Main in the Lower Franconian district of Haßberge .
geography
course
The Eltengraben rises in the Haßfurt Main Valley at an altitude of about 270 m above sea level. NN in the corridor Lange Beuth between the Haßfurter district Wülflingen and the district Obertheres of the municipality Theres in the southern tip of a deciduous forest directly on the municipality border.
It initially flows a good two hundred meters in an almost southerly direction through the forest along the municipal boundary, then enters the open corridor and then continues along the border for about half a kilometer south-southeast through an agricultural zone, accompanied by initially sparse, then increasingly dense wood .
It now crosses under the B 26 and then the tracks of the Bamberg – Rottendorf railway line , then bends almost at right angles to the right, then runs parallel to the railway tracks about five hundred meters west-south-west through fields and meadows and finally flows east of Obertheres at an altitude of 216 m ü. NN from the right into a basin of the Main .