Erlenbach (Kinzig)

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Erlenbach
Erlenbach, about 600 meters before the confluence with the Kinzig.

Erlenbach, about 600 meters before the confluence with the Kinzig.

Data
Water code EN : 2346
location Black Forest

Upper Rhine lowlands

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Kinzig  → Rhine  → North Sea
Beginning Confluence of Harmersbach and Nordrach west of Zell am Harmersbach
48 ° 20 ′ 37 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 15 ″  E
Source height approx.  211  m above sea level NHN
muzzle near Biberach from the right into the Kinzig coordinates: 48 ° 19 '55 "  N , 8 ° 1' 45"  E 48 ° 19 '55 "  N , 8 ° 1' 45"  E
Mouth height approx.  191  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 20 m
Bottom slope approx. 7.8 ‰
length 2.6 km 
18.9 km
with a longer upper reaches Harmersbach
Catchment area 116 km²
Discharge at the Zell am Harmersbach
A Eo gauge : 103 km²
Location: 2.36 km above the mouth 		NNQ (10/20/1993)
MNQ 1990-2003
MQ 1990-2003
Mq 1990-2003
 		240 l / s
530 l / s
2.64 m³ / s
25.6 l / (s km²)

The Erlenbach is the 2.5 km long lower course of a river in the western Black Forest that flows into the Kinzig from the right near Biberach in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg . Sometimes the Erlenbach and its left and larger upper course, the Harmersbach , are added to each other.

geography

course

The Erlenbach is formed by the confluence of the west-southwest running Harmersbach (16.3 km) and the south-southwest running Nordrach (15.1 km) on the western edge of Zell am Harmersbach . At the right edge of its rather wide valley, it initially continues the direction of the Nordrach, turns at the Zeller Spitzmühle in its valley floor, which is now shared with the Entersbacher Dorfbach, on a somewhat westerly course and then flows after about two and a half kilometers, less than a hundred meters after its crossing the district of Biberach, from the right and east into the Kinzig.

The Erlenbach has a catchment area totaling 104.92 km², to which its two source streams contribute over 98%, of which the Harmersbach 63.573 km² and the Nordrach 39.754 km².

About 0.4 km after it was built, a commercial canal, called Mühlbach , branches off to the right from the Erlenbach in front of a weir just above the Zeller paper mill . This initially runs next to the river, then turns right into the lower valley of the Kinzig, runs through Biberach and then parallel to the Kinzig. It only flows into the Kinzig from the right after a run of over 6 kilometers in the Biberach district near the former quarry at Paulischänzle .

Tributaries

List of direct tributaries from the origin to the mouth. Data values ​​according to the official waterway map.

  • Harmersbach , left and north-eastern main strand upper reaches, 16.4 km and 62.8 km²
  • Nordrach , right and north-northeast side branch upper reaches, 15.2 km and 39.8 km²
  • → (exit of the Mühlbach ), to the right approx. 0.4 km after the confluence of the upper reaches, a little before the Unterentersbach paper mill, 6.4 km. At the beginning, follow the Erlenbach to the right, then cross Biberach and then follow the Kinzig for a long time to the right to the Schwaibach sub-district of the town of Gengenbach , where it flows into the Kinzig at the former quarry between the hamlets of Schönberg and Bergach.
  • Entersbacher Dorfbach , from the right and east to about 192  m above sea level. NHN on the last hundred meters at the Kinzig flood dam, 6.9 km and 10.9 km². Arises as Entersbach at about 515  m above sea level. NHN under the Eckerhof from Zell-Oberentersbach .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Fischer, Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 177 Offenburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( notes )
  3. ↑ Level data from the LUBW flood forecast center Baden-Württemberg