Finkenbach (Laxbach)
Finkenbach Sections of the left main line upper course: Airlenbach → Falkengesäßerbach |
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The Finkenbach in Hirschhorn |
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Data | ||
Water code | DE : 238968 | |
location |
Odenwald
Hesse
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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: |
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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 |
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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: |
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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 |
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Falkengesäßerbach | 238968 | left upper course | 9.4 | 22.8 | Oberzent - Finkenbach | ? | with upper reaches Airlenbach |
Hinterbach | 238968-2 | right upper course | 9.4 | 16.8 | Oberzent-Finkenbach | ? | |
(Bach from the Preuschengrund ) | 238968-314 | Left | approx 0.9 | approx. | 0.8Unterfinkenbach | ? | |
(Bach from the Lenzengrund ) | Left | approx 0.9 | approx. | 1.0Unterfinkenbach | ? | ||
Hörlenbach | right | approx. 0.5 | approx. | 0.8? | |||
(Brook from the stone ground ) | 238968-392 | Left | approx. 0.6 | approx | 0.9? | ||
(Bach from the Heiligenwald ) | Left | approx. 0.6 | approx. | 1.0Sawmill to Unterfinkenbach | ? | ||
(Stream from the fountain meadows ) | 238968-4 | Left | 1.6 | 1.3 | Oberzent- Ober-Hainbrunn | ? | |
(Bach vom Sommerrain ) | 238968-52 | right | 0.8 | approx. | 1.1opposite Ober-Hainbrunn | ? | |
(Bach from the Zweigrund ) | 238968-6 | Left | 2.0 | 1.8 | Hirschhorn - Unter-Hainbrunn | 165 | |
Hämelsbach | 238968-72 | Left | 1.6 | approx | 1.7north under Hirschhorn-Hämmelsbacher Hof | 160 | |
Lower Hämmelsbach | 238968-74 | Left | 0.7 | approx. | 1.0southwest under Hämmelsbacher Hof | 153 | |
(Bach from the well room ) | Left | approx. 1.0 | approx. | 0.8147 | |||
Brombach | 238968-8 | right | 3.8 | 6.8 | 142 |
Remarks:
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 )
- ↑ a b c Height according to the contour line image on the background layer topographic map .
- ↑ a b c Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .
- ↑ Catchment area summed up from the sub-catchment areas according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .
- ↑ Length measured on the background layer topographic map .
- ↑ Catchment area according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .
- ↑ Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map .
Other evidence
- ↑ Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ GN Schwarzbach / Hornbach: Why do fish and other living beings have to be able to walk through our rivers? (PDF; 6.7 MB)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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