Ashen Valley Brook

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Ashen Valley Brook
Data
Water code DE : 2386714
location Hohenloher and Haller level

Kocher-Jagst Plains

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Kocher  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source Ebertsbrunnen approx. 0.5 km northwest of Rückertsbronn
49 ° 11 ′ 19 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 5 ″  E
Source height over  435  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in Döttingen from the left and west in the middle Kocher coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 16 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 30 ″  E 49 ° 13 ′ 16 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 30 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  235  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 200 m
Bottom slope approx. 28 ‰
length 7.1 km
Catchment area 12.831 km²
Communities EZG / Eschentalbach only : Untermünkheim
Residents in the catchment area approx. 750

The Eschentaler Bach is a creek about seven kilometers long that digs into the Hohenlohe plain and flows into the middle Kocher from the left and west in Döttingen in the municipality of Braunsbach in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in northern Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Source branches

The headwaters of the Eschentaler Bach are a little north of the federal motorway 6 , between the Untermünkheimer village Brachbach in the west and the Braunsbach hamlet Rückertsbronn in the east. Here, on the little hilly Kupferzell Plain of the Hohenlohe Plain , bordering the Kocher Valley in the east, three larger spring brooks arise , which tend to dry out in summer. The longest spring branch, which rises furthest east at the so-called Ebertsbrunnen about 500 meters northwest of the hamlet of Rückertsbronn , is regarded as the upper reaches of the Eschentaler Bach . At the beginning it runs northwest to west and shortly after one another takes up the Erlenbach , which flows northwards, then the Eschentalbach (!), Which runs approximately north-northeast . According to the topographic map, of the three branches of the spring, it has the most constant water. Both inflowing source streams arise not far from the Schwäbisch Hall junction of the A 6. A little more than two kilometers down from the Ebertsbrunnen, all three streams are then combined.

course

The Eschentaler Bach has already dug its way into the plateau at the point where the left-hand spring branch converges, and its increasingly steep valley now runs northwards for a long time. It first passes the Kupferzell hamlet of Einweiler , which is some distance away on the left , then the stream runs between the village of Eschental in the near west, the first of the two larger settlements in the catchment area, both of which are also part of Kupferzell, and the small Braunsbacher hamlet of Braunoldswiesen a little further in East through. From Eschental, a little further below its forest valley, a superficially waterless side valley runs towards it. Much further down, the valley bottom opens. Then the Rüblinger Bach flows from the northwest and the eponymous large hamlet of Rüblingen , after which the Eschentaler Bach turns to the east. In the now rapidly expanding Untertal, the forest retreats to half the height of the slope. In the Braunsbach village of Döttingen the Eschentaler Bach flows 7.1 km below the river bridge of the L 1036 from the left and west into the middle Kocher on its northward section between Geislingen and Kocherstetten. It has a mean slope of about 33 ‰.

Catchment area

The Eschentaler Bach drains an area of ​​12.8 km² to the middle Kocher . Its catchment area has roughly the shape of a long, south-north-oriented rectangle constricted in the middle with a south-north extension of a little over 6 km and across it a width of just under 1.5 km to almost 3.0 km. From northeast to east to south, the nearby and deeply incised stove is the big competitor; Its tributaries Baierbach near Braunsbach-Weilersbach in the north, Geißklingenbach near Geislingen in the southeast and Heiligenbach in the southwest, which reaches the Kocher via the Untermünkheimer Dobelbach , are upstream competitors of some importance here. To the west of the rest of the watershed arch from the southwest to the northwest, the upper course of the copper, which flows much further down towards the digester, collects the water beyond the less pronounced sheath; it is fed from the right by half a dozen brooks of one of these three comparable sizes. The highest points in the catchment area are on the southeast corner near Rückertsbronn, here the terrain twice reaches a height of around 447  m above sea level. NHN .

More than half of the catchment area, especially in the east, belongs to the municipality of Braunsbach , less than a tenth, only in the southwest, to Untermünkheim , both of which are in the district of Schwäbisch Hall . More than a third in the west and north belongs to that of Kupferzell , which is in the Hohenlohe district . The Eschentaler Bach between Brachbach and Eschental follows the border between the Hohenlohekreis in the west and the district of Schwäbisch Hall in the east, after which it usually runs on the left shoulder of the valley to the downward spur of the mouth over Döttingen.

Tributaries and lakes

Hierarchical list of tributaries and RiverIcon-SmallLake.svglakes from source to mouth. Length of water, lake area, catchment area and altitude according to the corresponding layers on the LUBW online map. Other sources for the information are noted.

The source of the Eschentaler Bach is at over 435  m above sea level. NHN lying Ebert wells , it is in a small grass square in the middle of a field about 0.5 northwest of the Braun Bacher Weiler Rückertsbronn and flows less than 50 meters initially on Rain in an open trench northwest.

  • (Feldweggraben), from the right to about 427  m above sea level. NHN on the north-eastern edge of a forest immediately east of the Braunsbacher Reisachshof , approx. 0.2 km. Arises below 435  m above sea level. NHN near a dirt road branch. After this inflow, the stream continues west-northwest to west.
  • Erlenbach , from the left and south to less than 400  m above sea level. NHN shortly before the first contact with the Klingenwald, 0.9 km and 1.3 km². Arises at about 420  m above sea level. NHN north of the Schwäbisch Hall junction on the A 6 between a wood and the Braunsbacher hamlet Herdtlingshagen in the east.
    • (Graben), from the right to about 410  m above sea level. NHN shortly after an abandoned quarry, approx. 0.4 km. Arises at about 425  m above sea level. NHN on the northern edge of Herdtlingshagen. Is longer than the upper course of the Erlenbach name.
    • (Dirt road ditch), from the right and east to about 407  m above sea level. NHN shortly thereafter, 0.4 km. Arises at about 427  m above sea level. NHN on the road from Herdtlingshagen to Reisachhof.
  • Eschentalbach (!), From the left and south-southwest to 386.4  m above sea level. NHN at the first of the following ponds, 1.2 km and 1.3 km². Arises at over 405  m above sea level. NHN south-west of the hamlet Leipoldsweiler von Untermünkheim on the K 2558. According to the map, it is the only section-by-section of all of the upper courses mentioned here, including the upper course of the name. From this inlet, the Eschentaler Bach flows in its increasingly steep valley to the north.
    • (Inconsistent dirt road ditch), from the right and east to about 402  m above sea level. NHN , approx. 0.2 km. Arises at about 413  m above sea level. NHN on the western edge of Leipoldsweiler.
  • RiverIcon-SmallLake.svg Feeds three fish ponds at the mouth of the Eschentalbach, a total of 0.2 ha.
  • (Side blade inflow), from the right and east to 368.6  m above sea level. NHN , approx. 0.6 km and approx. 0.6 km². Arises at about 405  m above sea level. NHN at the upper edge of the Seitenklingen forest, through which the K 2364 / K 2560 coming from the Kupferzell village of Eschental to the Braunsbach village of Arnsdorf leaves the edge of the Eschentaler Bach to the east.
  • (Steep valley inlet), waterless on the surface, from the left and southwest to below 340  m above sea level. NHN at the foot of the ruins of Günzburg , approx. 0.9 km on the Muldenlinie. Begins at the flat watershed to the right copper tributary Aspenbach on the western edge of Eschental.
  • (Inconsistent slope channel), from the right and east to about 320  m above sea level. NHN approximately where the district boundary crosses the forest valley, approx. 0.9 km. Arises at over 430  m above sea level. NHN on the hilltop in the Willensäcker north of the Braunsbach hamlet of Rückertshausen . Long field path ditch, runs towards the Eschentaler Bach without a trained secondary blade.
  • (Slope inflow), from the right to about 310  m above sea level. NHN a little before the forest exit of the Eschentaler Bach, 0.2 km.
  • Goggenbach , from the left and west-southwest at over 290  m above sea level. NHN opposite the already open lower slope of the Wannenschnäue , 0.5 km and approx. 0.9 km². Arises at about 370  m above sea level. NHN already in the forest. (Another Goggenbach runs across the western watershed from the right to the Kupfer.)
  • Rüblinger Bach , from the left and northwest to about 278.6  m above sea level. NN , 2.5 km and 3.0 km². Arises at about 385  m above sea level. NHN at the water reservoir on the northwestern edge of the Kupferzell hamlet of Rüblingen . At this tributary, the Eschentaler Bach turns to the east.
    • Rößegraben , from the left and northeast to 347.5  m above sea level. NN already in the forest blade in front of the quarry, 1.1 km. Arises at about 400  m above sea level. NHN east of Rüblingen in the Rößegrund .
    • Bachensteiner Bach , from the right and west to below 310  m above sea level. NHN in front of the mouth spur on which the ruins of Bachenstein lie, 0.5 km. Rises at about 350  m above sea level. NHN deep in his forest blade.
  • RiverIcon-SmallLake.svgAt about 270  m above sea level. NHN a pond just after the bend of the brook, under 0.1 ha.

Mouth of the Eschentaler Bach from the left and west to about 235  m above sea level. NHN - the stove is a little above the mouth 235.7  m above sea level. NHN and further below 233.4  m above sea level. NHN  - in the Braunsbach valley town of Döttingen from the left and west into the Kocher . The Eschentaler Bach is 7.1 km long and has a catchment area of ​​12.8 km²

Geology and natural spaces

The source streams of the Eschentaler Bach arise in the Lettenkeuper edition ( Erfurt formation of the Unterkeupers ) of the Hohenloher level . When the first troughs are formed and before the Eschentalbach flows into it , they reach the Upper Muschelkalk , into which the valley is steep and narrow. Approximately where the valley floor clears and the Goggenbach flows into it, the brook enters the Middle Muschelkalk , in the eastward running and strongly widening Untertal then into the Lower Muschelkalk . It finally flows into the narrow flood sediment band on both sides of the digester.

In the area of ​​the plateau on its south and west edge, as the highest layer, there are also additional parts of quaternary deposited loess sediment islands on the Lettenkeuper in the catchment area. Because the Eschentaler Bach digs into the deeper layers of the shell limestone , which is karstified , the Eschentaler Bach could also experience an inflow from hidden sources.

In terms of nature , the vast majority of the catchment area is located in the lower area of ​​the Kupferzeller Ebene and Kocheneck of the Hohenloher and Haller levels ; in the area of ​​the mouth of the lower valley running eastwards, it changes to the neighboring area of ​​the Middle Kocher and Lower Bühler valleys , which are included in the Kocher-Jagst plains .

traffic

The A 6 runs along the southern edge of the catchment area . The K 2558 runs through the headwaters of the Eschentaler Baches. Between Eschental and Arnsdorf in the east, the K 2364, continued as K 2560, crosses the creek in its upper Kerbtal, as well as the old Totensteigle , a little downhill , today just an unpaved path in the Klingenwald. After that, because of the steep valley slopes, the next traffic route is the L 1036 from Kupferzell into the valley, which reaches the left slope of the eastward moving lower valley via a long valley slope in the side of the Rüblinger Bach and slowly leads down to Döttingen.

history

On the upstream mouth of the spur Aspen stream are the remains of the ruin Günzburg on which a right of the lower feed stream Rüblinger which the ruin Bachstein .

Flora Fauna

The Eschentaler Bach carries relatively little water seasonally , so that there are no permanent fish stocks. Many salamander larvae and other amphibians , river fleas , stone flies and mayflies live in its ponds . There is colored deciduous wood in the deeply cut upper and middle valley . There is therefore only sparse vegetation of moss and algae on the stream itself.

Fossils can be found again and again in the shell limestone exposed through the valley cut .

Individual evidence

LUBW

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

  1. ↑ a b c Height according to the contour line image on the background layer topographic map .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Height according to black lettering on the background layer topographic map .
  3. ↑ a b c d Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .
  4. ↑ a b Catchment area summed up from the sub-catchment areas according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .
  5. ↑ On the topographic map background layer of the LUBW's online map server, only the course of the Eschentalbach is drawn through in blue. Perhaps the name so strikingly similar to the main name of the brook goes back to the fact that this ostensibly or really most consistent source branch was once considered the main branch.
  6. ↑ a b c Lake area according to the layer standing waters .
  7. ↑ a b c Catchment area according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h Length measured on the background layer of the topographic map .
  9. ↑ a b Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map .

Other evidence

  1. ↑ Geology according to: Mapserver of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes )
  2. ↑ 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)

literature

  • Bernhard Lott: The cooker from the source to the mouth. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2002, ISBN 3-934350-80-1 .
  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 6724 Künzelsau, No. 6824 Schwäbisch Hall.

Web links

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