Faulbach (Elbbach)

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Faulbach
Data
Water code DE : 258767712
location Giessen-Koblenz Lahntal

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Elbbach  → Lahn  → Rhine  → North Sea
source southeast of Hadamar - Niederweyer
50 ° 26 ′ 53 ″  N , 8 ° 5 ′ 19 ″  E
Source height approx.  230  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in Hadamar in the Elbbach Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '47 "  N , 8 ° 2' 38"  E 50 ° 26 '47 "  N , 8 ° 2' 38"  E
Mouth height approx.  136  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 94 m
Bottom slope approx. 28 ‰
length 3.4 km
Catchment area approx. 3.7 km²

The Faulbach is a three kilometer long, orographically left and eastern tributary of the Elbbach in the village of Hadamar in the central Hessian district of Limburg-Weilburg .

geography

course

The Faulbach rises about 230 meters southeast of the Hadamar district of Niederweyer at an altitude of 230  m above sea level. NN . It flows first in a westerly direction and finally flows after a river stretch of about 3.4 km at 136  m above sea level. NN left in the Elbbach .

A mean bed gradient of 28 ‰ is calculated from the height difference of 94 meters. It drains its approximately 3.7 km² catchment area via the Elbbach and Rhine to the North Sea .

Elbbach river system

Individual evidence

  1. Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
  2. a b Deutschlandviewer
  3. Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  4. Self-measurement on the WFD Viewer