Ettenbach (Elz)

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Ettenbach
Data
Water code DE : 233894
location Black Forest

Offenburg Rhine plain

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Elz  → Rhine  → North Sea
origin Confluence of the two headwaters at Ettenheimmünster
48 ° 14 ′ 25 ″  N , 7 ° 53 ′ 17 ″  E
Source height approx.  210  m above sea level NHN
muzzle South edge of Kappel Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '14 "  N , 7 ° 44' 26"  E 48 ° 17 '14 "  N , 7 ° 44' 26"  E
Mouth height below  160  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 50 m
Bottom slope approx. 2.7 ‰
length 18.4 km 
with the main right upper course Dörlinbachergrundbächle
Catchment area 59.97 km²

The Ettenbach is a river in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg . Together with its main right upper course, it is an over eighteen kilometers long right tributary of the Elz and a third order body of water. It then drains further over the Rhine into the North Sea .

geography

course

The Ettenbach is created near Ettenheimmünster by the confluence of the right Dörlinbachergrundbach and the left Münstergraben . The brook flows through the towns of Münchweier in a fairly constant west-north-westerly direction , after crossing from the Black Forest into the Upper Rhine Plain of Ettenheim , the village Grafenhausen passes a little to the south, then leaves the independent community of Rust on the left and then flows out on the southern edge of the village Kappel of the municipality of Kappel-Grafenhausen in the Elz.

In order to protect Kappel from flooding of the Ettenbach, a relief channel was created in the past, which branches off to the left from the Elz after the Ettenbach estuary and flows back into the Elz north of Kappel .

Catchment area

The catchment area is 60.0 km² and is located with its eastern part, in natural spatial terms, in the Central Black Forest sub-area of the Black Forest , with the western part in the Lahr-Emmendinger foothills of the Offenburg Rhine Plain, which belongs to the Upper Rhine Plain . The greatest heights are in the area of ​​the eastern watershed, the highest point at the summit of 535.9  m above sea level. NHN reach Haubühls .

In turn, the catchment areas of the following neighboring waters are adjacent:

  • in the east lies the area of ​​origin of the Schutter moving to the Kinzig ;
  • then in the south the Bleichbach leads the drain on the other side above to the Ettenbach receiving water Elz ;
  • whose immediate catchment area borders in the west;
  • whose subsequent right tributary Kapuzinerbach drains the area in the north of the catchment area border up to the first Black Forest heights and also takes up the branch (Grafenhausener) Dorfgraben of the Ettenbach;
  • on the northeastern part the Sulzbach competes for a short stretch , a little longer and then back to the Haubühl the Litschentalbach , two left Schutter tributaries.

Tributaries and catchment areas

  • Dörlinbachergrundbächle ( right upper course ), 4.7 km
  • Münstergraben ( left upper course ), 3.8 km
  • Glasbach ( left ), 2.2 km
  • Lautenbach ( right ), 2.6 km and 2.9 km²
  • Säggraben ( left ), 1.9 km and 1.0 km²
  • Schwarzbach ( left ), 2.1 km and 1.3 km²
  • Brudertobel (bach) ( right ), 1.1 km and 0.5 km²
  • Kuhbachgraben ( right ), 3.0 km and 2.0 km²
  • → (branch of the commercial canal) ( to the left )
  • Annahäuslebach ( left to the commercial canal), 3.6 km and 4.0 km²
  • Rohrbach or Riesentalbach ( right ), 1.1 km and 1.1 km²
  • Riedmühlebach or Kuhlegergraben ( left to the commercial canal), 3.3 km and 4.6 km²
  • Seltenbach ( right ), 5.1 km and 2.8 km²
  • Osterbach ( left to the commercial canal), 1.2 km
  • ← (return of the commercial canal) ( from the left ), 2.6 km and with its tributaries 10.6 km²
  • → (junction of the Grafenhausen village ditch ) ( to the right to the Kapuzinerbach ), 2.8 km

places

Municipalities and places in the upper reaches

Municipality Ringheim

  • (unsettled forest enclave, to the right of the Dörlinbachergrundbächle)

Community Grafenhausen

  • (settlementless forest enclave, on the mountain spur between Dörlinbachergrundbächle and Münstergraben)

City of Ettenheim

  • (smaller settlement areas of Ettenheimmünster)

Communities and places on the Ettenbach itself

Only the names of the lowest nesting level denote neighboring settlements.

City of Ettenheim

  • Ettenheimmünster district (selection)
  • Münchweier district
    • Münchweier (village)
  • Central Ettenheim
    • Sägmühle (living space, left)
    • Mittelmühle (living space)
    • Fuchsmühle (living space)
    • Ettenheim (city)
    • At the customs house (living space, left)
    • Holzmühle (living space, right)

Community Grafenhausen

  • Grafenhausen (village, with distance to the right)

community Rust

  • Rust (without settlement, left)

Kappel-Grafenhausen community

  • Kappel (village, with little distance to the right)

Other communities and places in the catchment area

In addition to the municipalities mentioned, whose areas are traversed or touched by the water, also have a share in the catchment area:

  • on the eastern watershed the community of Schuttertal with small uninhabited forest spandrels;
  • to the south the small town of Herbolzheim with small, uninhabited forest exklave spandrels in the east and larger areas further to the west in the lowlands, including the settlement area of ​​the city itself;
  • Between Herbolzheim and the Ettenbachlauf in the north lies the main area of ​​the community Ringsheim, which clearly predominantly drains towards the Ettenbach, the entire settlement area of ​​the village;
  • On the northern watershed, the small town of Mahlberg has a small corridor near the lower reaches of the river and on the ascent to the Black Forest a little larger one in the forest.

Former history

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The course of the Ettenbach was changed considerably by human hands in the Middle Ages. Originally the Ettenbach turned north between Altdorf and Orschweier , took up the Altdorfer Dorfgraben and the Darsbach from the Riedgraben and then drained via Unditz and Schutter to the Kinzig instead of the Elz today. As drainage for Elz was then channeled back to the capuchin Bach in Mahlberg, whereby the area between the reed mats and Kaiserwald significantly meliorated , allowing the creation of the village Grafenhausen and it was developed for agriculture surrounding hall.

Economical meaning

In the southern Ortenau, the Ettenbach used to drive at least three mills in Ettenheimmünster together with its upper reaches and at least four mills in Ettenheim. It drains the Rittmattenwiesen on the lower reaches .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg : zip file , 46.4 MiB
  2. ^ 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)
  3. ↑ Johann Baptist von Kolb : Historical-statistical-topographical lexicon of the Grand Duchy of Baden . tape 2 , 1814, p. 1–338, here p. 186 ( full text in the Google book search).

literature

  • Topographical map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 7712 Ettenheim and No. 7713 Schuttertal

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