Erlesbach (cooker)

	Erlesbach
	The Erlesbach in Kocherstetten
	Data
Water code	DE : 2386716
location	Kocher-Jagst Plains Eastern Kocher-Jagst-Riedel; Lower Kocher Valley; Baden-Württemberg Hohenlohe district City of Künzelsau ; ;
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Kocher → Neckar → Rhine → North Sea
source	approx. 0.4 km east of Künzelsau- Laßbach ; 49 ° 15 ′ 51 ″ N , 9 ° 48 ′ 59 ″ E
Source height	approx. 436 m above sea level NN
muzzle	in Künzelsau- Kocherstetten above the river bridge from the right and east in the middle Kocher coordinates: 49 ° 15 '54 " N , 9 ° 45' 27" E 49 ° 15 '54 " N , 9 ° 45' 27" E;
Mouth height	below 225 m above sea level NN
Height difference	approx. 211 m
Bottom slope	approx. 44 ‰
length	4.8 km
Catchment area	4.384 km²

The Erlesbach is an almost 5 km long brook on the municipal boundary of Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district in northeastern Baden-Württemberg , which flows into the middle Kocher in the village of Kocherstetten from the right and from the east .

geography

course

The Erlesbach arises about 400 meters east of the outskirts of the small Künzelsau village Laßbach at about 436 m above sea level. NHN on the narrow plateau between the deeply cut river valleys of the Jagst near to the east and the Kocher further to the west as a dirt road ditch in the Gewann Sand . It first flows along the path to the edge of the hamlet and is reinforced by a spring on the run. Then it disappears for a hundred meters in a pipeline through Laßbach, only to step back into the open after a hundred meters at the other end of the village. There it now runs between fields northwest to the vicinity of the Bienenhof farmstead at the junction of the K 2383 to Kocherstetten down into the Kochertal from the L 1033. It crosses under, about 1.2 km below its origin, in a westerly direction to a little below 436 m ü. NHN the state road and then begins his longer blades run.

Previously a guided ditch without a lot of woody vegetation, it is now accompanied by trees along the winding natural course with a steeper gradient, soon the entire right slope of the Vorderer Schlossberg is covered with forest and finally the left one below the village of Vogelsberg . Noticeably downward, below the spur of Stetten Castle on the right, it then opens to about 280 m above sea level. NHN the hall back in the valley. Still accompanied by the gallery, the stream flows along the Lohbergweg towards the outskirts of the valley village of Kocherstetten . Shortly after entering the settlement area, he is led in a brick trough between two village streets, which are bordered by small allotment gardens towards the stream. Several footbridges and bridges cross it on this almost dead straight section, which is only about 350 m long, especially the bridge of the Haller Straße L 1045, which follows the Kocher valley from Untermünkheim and still runs through the village on the right side of the river. After crossing the waterway at an old mill property, the stream flows just a stone's throw above the river bridge of the village in the area of the Mühlkanal return to below 225 m above sea level. NHN from the right and east into the middle stove .

The Erlesbach is 4.8 km long, has a total gradient of over 210 m and no significant inflows.

Catchment area

The 4.4 km² large catchment area of Erlesbachs extends about 5.0 km away from the eastern watershed on a plateau towering range of hills through the bath belt Leichhardt ( 448.2 m above sea level. NHN ) near the Nordosteck, church ( 449.3 m above sea level ) and Strickgreut ( 451.8 m above sea level ) on the southeast corner to the mouth in the west; across it it measures up to 1.5 km in width. This eastern watershed is also the highest, behind it begins the soon-to-be steep drop into the Jagst valley , which is nowhere more than 1.2 km away. The northern watershed runs in a fairly flat gradient on the ridge of the Schlossberg to Stettener Schloss and only then steeply into the valley. Behind this line, the somewhat smaller Heiligenbach flows close to the west, also through a blade to the Kocher in Kocherstetten, where it flows only 300 meters down the Erlesbach. The southern watershed separates the somewhat larger catchment area of the Weilersbach , which flows into the Kocher valley village of Weilersbach von Braunsbach after a somewhat shorter west-southwest run. On this side, too, the terrain only becomes steeper at the edge of the Kocher valley.

There is forest on about a quarter of the catchment area. The smaller part of it on the plateau lies south and west of Laßbach, the larger part includes the Klingenwald on the middle and lower reaches and the upper slope towards the Kocher valley. In the open corridor, the fields dominate, especially on the plateau and the two spurs accompanying the blade.

On the plateau are the two villages of Laßbach in the southeast, Vogelsberg on the southern border and the Rappoldsweiler Hof on the northeast corner, all of which are part of the Künzelsau district of Laßbach. In addition, there is the beehive and Stetten Castle on the right spur, which belong to the Kocherstetten district, a large part of whose eponymous village lies in the triangle of the mouth. The Laßbacher district marking has the largest share of the area, this is above the entrance to the blade, on the left slope of the upper blade and on the left edge. Somewhat less belongs to that of Kocherstetten, namely the Schlossbergsporn on the erlesbach side from the apiary, the rest of the blade and the section already in the Kochertal. In addition, there are around 3 hectares of land on the Randkuppe in Strickgreut zu Langenburg .

geology

The Erlesbach flows in the natural area of the Kocher-Jagst Plains , a slightly hilly plateau, which is furrowed by river valleys carved into the shell limestone , especially by the main rivers Kocher and Jagst. The often karstic limestone here is off the Taleinfälle still lower Keuper , and on summit documents there are islands of by quaternary entstandenem deposit Lösssediment that provide good farmland.

The Erlesbach arises in the Unterkeuper between two such loess sediment islands. A little below the entrance to the blade it reaches the upper one , where it leaves its forest of blades, the middle one, and then the lower shell limestone at the edge of the estuary village . It flows into the floodplain sediment strip that accompanies the course of the Kocher river.

A ravine in the eastern continuation of the Kocherstettener Schlossbergsteige closes the Geislinger Bank in the transition area from Lower to Middle Muschelkalk.

nature and landscape

The lower blade from about Vogelsberg to the outskirts of Kocherstetten as well as the upper slopes to Kochertal belong to the landscape protection area Kochertal near Kocherstetten . On the plateau near Laßbach and west of Vogelsberg, water protection areas protrude into the catchment area. The natural course of the Erlesbach in its blade section up to the forest exit is under biotope protection, as is a gorge forest band that accompanies it in its middle blade; The two to four wide stream bed here is stony and partly rich in rubble, above it there are water outlets on the slope, partly with spring sinter formations. On the southern slope of the Schlossberg below the castle there are numerous stone bars, on the opposite slope as well, which are typical of this section of the Kochertal and testify to earlier viticulture.

Individual evidence

LUBW

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

↑ ^a ^b Height according to the contour line image on the topographic map background layer .

↑ Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .

↑ Catchment area according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .

↑ Protected areas according to the relevant layers, nature partly according to the biotope layer .

Other evidence

↑ Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)

↑ 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 )
↑ Profile of the geotope on the Schlossbergsteige (PDF, 335 kB)

literature

Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 6724 Künzelsau

Web links

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

Map of the course and catchment area of the Erlesbach on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
Map of the course and catchment area of the Erlesbach on: Geoportal Baden-Württemberg ( information )
Measuring table sheet 6724 Künzelsau from 1932 in the Deutsche Fotothek

[TK-HLB-Höhe-2] Height according to the contour line image on the topographic map background layer .

[GeNe-Länge-3] Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .

[BEZG-EZG-4] Catchment area according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .

[Schutzgebiete-7] Protected areas according to the relevant layers, nature partly according to the biotope layer .

[BfL-162-1] Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)