Finkenbach (Laxbach)

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Finkenbach
Sections of the left main line upper course:
Airlenbach → Falkengesäßerbach
The Finkenbach in Hirschhorn

The Finkenbach in Hirschhorn

Data
Water code DE : 238968
location Odenwald

Hesse

Baden-Württemberg

Hesse

River system Rhine
Drain over Laxbach  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
origin Confluence of the Falkengesäßerbach and Hinterbach :
in Oberzent- Finkenbach

49 ° 32 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 57 ″  E

Source of the Falkengesäßerbach upper reaches of Airlenbach:
north-western edge of Airlenbach
49 ° 35 ′ 46 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 5 ″  E

Source height approx.  403  m above sea level NHN
confluence from left with the Ulfenbach to Laxbach in Hirschhorn coordinates: 49 ° 26 '51 "  N , 8 ° 53' 40"  E 49 ° 26 '51 "  N , 8 ° 53' 40"  E
Mouth height approx.  120  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 283 m
Bottom slope approx. 13 ‰
length with Airlenbach and Falkengesäßerbach :
 21.6 km 

name section only:

 12.2 km
Catchment area 73.761 km²
Discharge
A Eo : 73.693 km²
at the mouth 		MQ
Mq
 		1,230.8 m³ / s
16.7 l / (s km²)

The Finkenbach is around 22 km long stream that flows roughly southwards through the southern Odenwald and joins the Ulfenbach to the Laxbach from the left in the small town of Hirschhorn in the Hessian district of Bergstrasse , which soon flows into the Neckar .

geography

origin

The Finkenbach arises from the confluence of the Hinterbach and Falkengesäßerbach near Oberzent - Finkenbach . Other names are sometimes used for these two source streams; the Hinterbach and the Falkengesäßerbach are also given the name "Finkenbach" .

course

From the confluence of its two source streams, the Finkenbach runs consistently in a southerly direction to its mouth. On the southern edge of the village of Finkenbach it is fed from the left by the Preuschengrund and a stream from the Lenzegrund .

Then the Finkenbachtal nature reserve begins at Finkenbach , encompassing the entire width of the floodplains, where it initially passes west of the Kobelstreich mountain . A little further south, the small Hörlenbach flows towards it from the right . The following section of floodplain between the Hörlenbachskopf ( 360  m above sea level ) on the right and the Alte Schlätze on the left opposite is called Großwiese , where the stone ground reinforces it from the left. The Finkenbach flows through the Bruchwiesen past the Engertalskopf ( 312  m above sea level ), leaves the nature reserve and then squeezes between Mühlberg and Zweckgrund . It then crosses the Eberbach - Brombach district and shortly afterwards reaches the northern edge of the Oberzent valley village of Ober-Hainbrunn , which mostly stretches a little above the eastern foot of the slope, while here it adheres to the western side of the valley. In sub-grove Brunn it flows from the left of the two fundamental to. The stream now runs into the designated nature reserve Hainbrunner Tal near Hirschhorn , from where the Hämmelsbach feeds it from the left . Further downstream, the Brombach flows from the right , its most important tributary below the source streams.

Finally he reaches the town of Hirschhorn , where the Ulfenbach meets him almost at a right angle from the right and joins him to the Laxbach at an altitude of 120  m above sea level. NHN united. After about 700 m of its own run, this flows into the Neckar .

The course of the Finkenbach, including its upper reaches from Airlenbach and Falkengesäßerbach 21.6 km, 12.1 km long alone, ends about 283 meters below the origin of the Airlenbach, so it has an average bed gradient of about 13 ‰.

Tributaries

List of direct tributaries from the confluence of the upper reaches to the confluence with the Ulfenbach and the Laxbach. Length of the water body taken over or measured, catchment area <taken over or measured as well as height according to the corresponding layers on the LUBW's online map. Other sources for the information are noted.

Surname GKZ location Length
in km 		EZG
in km² 		Mouth Mouth height
in m above sea level NHN 		Remarks
Falkengesäßerbach 238968 left upper course approx. 9.400 approx. 22.800 Oberzent - Finkenbach ? 00000 with upper reaches Airlenbach
Hinterbach 238968-2 right upper course approx. 9.400 approx. 16.800 Oberzent-Finkenbach ? 00000
(Bach from the Preuschengrund ) 238968-314 Left0 approx 0.900 approx. 00.800 Unterfinkenbach ? 00000
(Bach from the Lenzengrund ) Left0 approx 0.900 approx. 01.000 Unterfinkenbach ? 00000
Hörlenbach right approx. 0.500 approx. 00.800 ? 00000
(Brook from the stone ground ) 238968-392 Left0 approx. 0.600 approx 00.900 ? 00000
(Bach from the Heiligenwald ) Left0 approx. 0.600 approx. 01.000 Sawmill to Unterfinkenbach ? 00000
(Stream from the fountain meadows ) 238968-4 Left0 approx. 1.600 approx. 01.300 Oberzent- Ober-Hainbrunn ? 00000
(Bach vom Sommerrain ) 238968-52 right approx. 0.800 approx. 01.100 opposite Ober-Hainbrunn ? 00000
(Bach from the Zweigrund ) 238968-6 Left0 approx. 2.000 approx. 01.800 Hirschhorn - Unter-Hainbrunn 165 00000
Hämelsbach 238968-72 Left0 approx. 1.600 approx 01.700 north under Hirschhorn-Hämmelsbacher Hof 160 00000
Lower Hämmelsbach 238968-74 Left0 approx. 0.700 approx. 01.000 southwest under Hämmelsbacher Hof 153 00000
(Bach from the well room ) Left0 approx. 1.000 approx. 00.800 147 00000
Brombach 238968-8 right approx. 3.800 approx. 06.800 142 00000

Remarks:

  1. ↑ Sometimes also the GKZ 2389682
  2. ↑ Sometimes also the GKZ 238968

Dates and character

The Finkenbach, together with its main upper course, is a 21.5 km long, fine-material, silicate low mountain stream in the red sandstone Odenwald . Its total catchment area is 73.787 sq km, it is elongated in the direction of north-south and wooded slopes and embankments dominated and had passed , green flood plains. In the soils of the Bachtal, the water can only moderately to slightly seep away. The rock layers on the slopes mainly consist of sandstones as well as clay and siltstones , some of which are on top of the gravel . Quaternary , relatively cohesive loose rocks often fill the valley .

The catchment area of ​​the Finkenbach, which in natural terms lies in the sub-areas of Sandstone-Odenwald and, last but not least, also the Odenwald-Neckar valley of the Odenwald , is adjacent to the Ulfenbach sibling river in the west ; in the north and northeast, the competing neighboring streams flow across the Mümling beyond the central Odenwälder watershed in the Main . To the east, beyond the ridge of the Hirschhorner Höhe, lies the Gammelsbach catchment area , which flows into the Neckar . In the southeast, the much smaller Igelsbach to the Neckar and a few sloping streams run in between .

fauna

Brown trout , brown lamprey , bullhead and eel can be found in the Finkenbach . The yellow-bellied toad , the helmet-azure maiden and the light and dark blue-bellied ants are also said to occur in the Finkenbachtal . The rare river pearl mussel that lived in the past was probably extinct by the eighties of the twentieth century at the latest. The still numerous transverse structures in the water hinder fish and other water dwellers in their migration.

Individual evidence

LUBW

Official online waterway map with a suitable section and the layers used here: Course and catchment area of ​​the Finkenbach
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 Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .
  3. ↑ Catchment area summed up from the sub-catchment areas according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .
  4. ↑ Length measured on the background layer topographic map .
  5. ↑ Catchment area according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .
  6. ↑ Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map .

Other evidence

  1. ↑ Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  2. ↑ Type 5.1: Silicate mountain streams rich in fine material  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 191 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.umweltbundesamt.de  
  3. ↑ Otto Klausing: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 151 Darmstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  4. ↑ Josef Schmithüsen : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 161 Karlsruhe. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952. →  Online map (PDF; 5.1 MB)
  5. ↑ GN Schwarzbach / Hornbach: Why do fish and other living beings have to be able to walk through our rivers? (PDF; 6.7 MB)
  6. ↑ Natura 2000 Finkenbachtal and Hinterbachtal  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www2.hmuelv.hessen.de  
  7. ↑ Red list and index of species of snails and mussels in Baden-Württemberg (PDF; 10.6 MB)

literature

  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as a single sheet No. 6319 Erbach, No. 6419 Beerfelden, No. 6519 Eberbach

Web links

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