Fallbach (Inn, Baumkirchen)

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Fallbach
The regulated Fallbach in the Baumkirchner Valley

The regulated Fallbach in the Baumkirchner Valley

Data
Water code AT : 2-8-167
location Tyrol , Austria
River system Danube
Drain over Inn  → Danube  → Black Sea
source below the Fallbachkar in the Gleirsch-Halltal chain
47 ° 19 ′ 46 ″  N , 11 ° 31 ′ 51 ″  E
Source height 1386  m above sea level A.
muzzle near Baumkirchen in the Inn Coordinates: 47 ° 17 '49 "  N , 11 ° 33' 59"  E 47 ° 17 '49 "  N , 11 ° 33' 59"  E
Mouth height 548  m above sea level A.
Height difference 838 m
Bottom slope 16%
length 5.2 km
Catchment area 7.8 km²
Communities Absam , Mils , Baumkirchen

The Fallbach is a 5 km long left tributary of the Inn near Baumkirchen in Tirol . It should not be confused with the stream of the same name , which in Innsbruck also flows into the Inn from the left.

The Fallbach waterfall

The creek rises below the Fallbachkar in the Gleirsch-Halltal chain in the municipality of Absam and initially runs in a southerly direction, cascading down around 200 meters over steep rock faces. Except during floods, the stream seeps away below the waterfalls and continues to flow as a groundwater stream above the damming ground moraine before it comes to the surface again in various springs in the Baumkirchner Valley between 750 and 650 meters above sea level. From there, below the Gnadenwald plateau, it flows in a south-easterly direction through the Baumkirchen valley, then through the village center of Baumkirchen and flows south of it into the Inn. Shortly before that, it crosses the railway line , running between the existing above-ground and the underground route built for the New Lower Inn Valley Railway .

The overflow is in the conservation area Vorberg, in turn, a part of the Karwendel mountains forms.

The catchment area of the Fallbach is 7.8 km² and extends over more than 2100 meters in altitude up to around 2705  m above sea level. A. high point east of the Great Beggar Throw . When there is heavy rainfall, the stream can carry a lot of debris . In the past, for example in 1905, 1923, 1950, 1952, 2003 and 2010, mudslides caused major damage in Baumkirchen. To protect the village, the drinking water sources and the railway line, between whose surface and underground route the Fallbach runs shortly before its mouth, a sediment barrier and a retention basin with a capacity of 6000 m³ were built above Baumkirchen .

Web links

Commons : Fallbach (Baumkirchen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e TIRIS - Tyrolean regional planning and information system
  2. ^ A b Tyrolean protected areas: Vorberg landscape protection area
  3. ^ Franz Fliri: Baumkirchen. Local history of a village in Tyrol . 2nd expanded edition. Self-published, Baumkirchen 1999, p. 34 .
  4. ↑ Tirol Atlas: Natural History Tyrol
  5. ↑ Little Fallbach renovated on a large scale ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )