Firnsbach

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Firnsbach
Data
Water code DE : 42922
location Independent city of Kassel and the district of Kassel , Hesse , Germany
River system Weser
Drain over Bauna  → Fulda  → Weser  → North Sea
origin in the Hohe Habichtswald
near the Ziegenkopf
51 ° 18 ′ 19 ″  N , 9 ° 22 ′ 6 ″  E
Source height approx.  505  m above sea level NHN 
muzzle between Schauenburg- Hoof and - Elgershausen in the Bauna coordinates: 51 ° 16 '54 "  N , 9 ° 21' 41"  E 51 ° 16 '54 "  N , 9 ° 21' 41"  E
Mouth height approx.  299  m above sea level NHN 
Height difference approx. 206 m
Bottom slope approx. 64 ‰
length approx. 3.2 km 
Catchment area approx. 3.13 km² 
Big cities kassel
Communities Schauenburg

The Firnsbach is an approximately 3.2 km long, northern and orographically left tributary of the Bauna in the area of ​​the independent city of Kassel and in the district of Kassel in northern Hesse ( Germany ).

Course and catchment area

The Firnsbach rises in the Hohe Habichtswald in the Habichtswald Nature Park . Its headwaters located approximately 300 meters south from the summit of goat head ( 564.7  m above sea level.  NHN ) within the city of Kassel in the district of Bad Wilhelmshöhe belonging hamlet on goat head . There two rivulets converge at a height of around 505  m .

At the beginning the Firnsbach, which runs mainly southwards, flows past the houses of the hamlet Am Ziegenkopf , which also includes the Herbsthäuschen (approx.  480  m ) near the brook . Below this forest restaurant, it winds through a remote valley of the Hohe Habichtswald. Here it passes the heights Kleiner Herbsthaus ( 524.3  m ) and Großer Herbsthaus ( 509  m ) and flows through a small gorge that the flowing water has dug into the landscape of basalt rocks - a process that is still ongoing.

Below this gorge, the Firnsbach , which now flows a few meters east along the border with the Kassel district, passes the former mining settlement Firnsbachtal , which belongs to the municipality of Schauenburg and where the Landgasthaus Unteres Firnsbachtal (approx.  380  m ) is located. To the east of the Bachtal area there rises, still in the area of ​​the independent Kassel, the Hirzstein ( 502  m ) with its steep rock wall of a former basalt quarry facing away from the Bachtal and the nearby Teufelsmauer , a basalt corridor exposed by mining .

Immediately after leaving the Habichtswald, the Firnsbach, now finally flowing in the district of Kassel, crosses the Bundesautobahn 44 and a little later the route of the Kassel – Naumburg railway line , shortly afterwards between the Schauenburg villages of Hoof and Elgershausen at around 299  m altitude in the western Fulda - inflow Bauna to open (when Bauna bach kilometer  13,35).

The catchment area of the Firnbach is 3.13 km².

hike

Several forest and hiking trails lead along the Firnsbach , such as the Habichtswaldsteig and Märchenlandweg , which run past rock faces and over rocky stairs and wooden bridges through the gorge of the brook. Hikers parking are in goat head close to that on Ehlen and Kassel connecting Ehlener street can be reached, and when Schauenburger settlement Firnsbachtal that of Elgershausen can be controlled Coming (to Schauenburg).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b c d Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )