Forbach (USA)
| Forbach | ||
 River system of the USA |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | DE : 2484852 | |
| location |
Taunus
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| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Usa → Weather → Nidda → Main → Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | at the Hubertus youth hostel (Münster) 50 ° 23 ′ 26 ″ N , 8 ° 35 ′ 17 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 365 m above sea level NHN | |
| muzzle | in Usinger road in Long Grove Ziegenberg -Ziegenberg in the United States coordinates: 50 ° 21 '57 " N , 8 ° 37' 36" O 50 ° 21 '57 " N , 8 ° 37' 36" O |
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| Mouth height | approx. 198 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | approx. 167 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 39 ‰ | |
| length | 4.3 km | |
| Catchment area | 7.992 km² | |
| Drain at the mouth |
MQ |
35.7 l / s |
 Forbach coming from behind, north, flows on the left into the USA, which flows from west to east |
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The Forbach is a four kilometer long stream in the eastern Hintertaunus in the Hessian Wetteraukreis , which rises in the district of Butzbach below the Nollkopf and flows in the district of Ober-Mörlen from a roughly north-westerly direction as a tributary into the USA .
geography
course
The Forbach rises at the edge of the forest (mixed forest) next to the football field from the Jugendgästehaus Hubertus ( Kreisjugendheim Hubertus ), the early 20th century as a guest house Jagdhaus Hubertus was founded and about two kilometers west of the local situation of Munster at the county road 15 is located. From the northwest, from beyond the K 15, a ditch temporarily carrying water leads to the headwaters. The Forbach lays its first 50 m parallel to the southern fence of the sports field before it is put into a pipe and led into a small pond. Two more water management systems, presumably located to the north of the pond, lead into the same pond through different pipes. Excess water is probably drained into an outlet pipe via a monk .
The now liberated Forbach crosses a mixed forest for about 50 m and reaches an approximately 1.5 km long and elongated forest meadow, which extends to above Wiesental between Schweinskopf in the east and Oberberg in the west. The beginning of the meadow, about 330 m above sea level. NHN , has a soft soil and is increasingly overgrown by plants that are less suitable for the digestion of ruminants. Over a distance of around 500 m, the Forbach flows along the edge of the forest in a south-easterly direction and then turns onto the meadow and in a south-south-east direction. On a crossing forest path ( Maibacher Weg or Maibacher Kirchweg ), which, coming from Münster, leads northwest past Schweinskopf and Oberberg to Maibach, the water is piped over a length of about 75 m, because the path is about 1 m higher than the meadow and has gently sloping sides. Below the Maibacher Weg there are traces of use as pasture, presumably by sheep and goats (no footprints from cows, no cow dung, but excrement). As a result of the extensive use (late mowing to no mowing at all) blooming autumn crocus grows in the lower part of the meadow as early as August , making it unusable for use by or for dairy grazing cattle (content of the poisonous alkaloid colchicine ). The brook has returned to the protection of the edge of the forest up to the vicinity of a pumping station for drinking water production and has expanded its bed, which now takes on a stony character. Below the Maibacher Kirchweg , deciduous trees dominate the mixed forest, interspersed with cliffs and partly steeply rising, while conifers dominate above. The meadow turns into forest, which is initially a young deciduous forest and then becomes a coniferous forest. The Forbach now flows in wide curves through a narrowing valley, the steep slopes of which are interspersed with partly dry ditches and many springs that feed it in sections. The trenches ultimately flow into the Forbach and that into a small pond on the outskirts of Wiesental .
The purpose of this upstream pond is to protect the semi-oval extinguishing water pond below from contamination and backfilling by sediment or debris carried along. To ensure that the large amount of water held in the fire extinguishing pond does not become anaerobic and creates odors and foul gases , the Forbach water is fed to the water storage tank via a rough ramp lined with steps. To the south-east, the extinguishing water pond is bounded by a heaped dam, which contains a walled overflow in the middle and the suction point at the northeast end . Next to it is a village community center with a gravel parking lot in front of it, which also houses the Wiesental volunteer fire brigade. Below the dam, the Forbach is directed in a straight trench through a meadow and under the district road 254 into its drainage ditch lined with half-shells on the east side (where it dried up in the hot summer of 2018 ). At the height of the Tannenweg , from which the Wellbodenweg that accompanies the Etzbach branches off, the Forbach separates from the road and flows into the Etzbach, forming several arms, which thus becomes the Forbach.
After about 100 meters the brook joins the Hilbertsborn district from the left . It rises from a damp, cordoned-off place in a horse paddock ⊙ . In an arch it flows through a meadow on which it is bridged by a stone bridge. At the edge of the forest ⊙ , where the Eichberg rises, it unites with the outflow from the waterworks ⊙ on the outskirts of Wiesental. The stream follows the edge of the forest at the foot of the mountain.
This flat terrace southeast of the village and west of the Eichberg , a meadow used as a horse paddock, received a small pond in 2018. A riparian forest of alders forms the southern edge of the meadow . The Forbach, meandering, digs itself partially deep into its layer of clay. With the mouth of the Hilbertsborn brook , the Forbach also follows the foot of the Eichberg in the edge of the forest. At around km 1.5, the brook is tapped on a right-hand slope to supply the Junkernsee fish pond, which was desludged at the beginning of 2020, with water. Below this pond there was a fish pond that is now filled and partly used as an orchard, the dam of which is still standing. At its height, a stream that sometimes carries water flows from almost the summit of the 276 meter high Eichberg from the left . Below its mouth, the Forbach had a strong erosive effect, aided by the increased gradient, so that its bed, which was cut a meter deep, was filled with wagonloads of basalt rock and paved. At about 0.9 km there is another tap for a carp pond (there are numerous red carp) below the Wiesental forest house . The Forbach runs southwest around the pond.
When leaving the edge of the forest, it reaches the Bornwiesen , crosses under the K 254 and crosses the area at the Ziegenberger Brunnen . Here, from the left, a stream from the north-east that sometimes carries water flows into a run. On the right bank is the fenced in former Bundeswehr area, a legacy from the Nazi era, which is characterized by a nearly 150-meter-long building with a partially collapsed roof and balconies that look like Upper Bavaria. There is a damming facility in the stream. The Forbach now follows in a stony bed, lined with alders and other trees, the steep Schlossstrasse or K 254 down to Ziegenberg, bordered on the right bank by the fence of the former BW area with the Weimerwiese . At about 0.35 km, below the mouth to the right of an old drain or an old drainage from the meadow, there is a fish ladder built by the Bundeswehr in the brook . About 25 meters below, a piping almost an hm long begins, with which the road is crossed at an acute angle. On the northern edge, the place began with a mill, which steered the Forbach eastward away from the road. In built-up edge it flows for 200 meters and reaches the road through the federal highway 275 , which he crosses.
The Forbach ends at the foot of Castle Mountain Goat , less than 20 meters after passing under the B 275, on the southwestern outskirts of the Upper Moerler hamlet of Long Grove Goat Mountain in the United States .
Tributaries
- Etzbach ( right )
Usa River System
places
The Forbach flows through the following villages:
- Butzbach - Wiesental
- Ober-Mörlen- Langenhain-Ziegenberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Google Earth
- ↑ a b Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
- ↑ Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
- ↑ Kreis-Anzeiger: Demand: District youth home should take up youth groups again - the future is still unclear
- ↑ Wiesental volunteer fire department
