Franconian Rezat

Franconian Rezat
Course of the Franconian Rezat ( interactive map )
Data
Water code	EN : 242
location	Swiss franc amount Middle Franconian basin Germany Bavaria Middle Franconia Ansbach district District of Roth
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Rednitz  → Regnitz  → Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
Rezat fountain	on the Frankenhöhe northwest of Oberdachstetten 49 ° 25 ′ 39 ″  N , 10 ° 23 ′ 48 ″  E
Source height	452  m above sea level NN
confluence	with the Swabian Rezat in Georgensgmünd zur Rednitz Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '17 "  N , 11 ° 1' 20"  E 49 ° 11 '17 "  N , 11 ° 1' 20"  E
Mouth height	342  m above sea level NN
Height difference	110 m
Bottom slope	1.4 ‰
length	77.3 km
Catchment area	456 km²  (area code 24211)
Discharge at the Ansbach A Eo gauge : 119.1 km² Location: 52.38 km above the mouth	NNQ MNQ 1941, 1947–2012 MQ 1941, 1947–2012 Mq 1941, 1947–2012 MHQ 1941, 1947–2012 HHQ (07/29/1941)	20 l / s 157 l / s 743 l / s 6.2 l / (s km²) 20.2 m³ / s 60 m³ / s
Discharge at the Wernfels water level Sewage treatment plant A Eo : 376.2 km² Location: 11.13 km above the mouth	NNQ MNQ 1955–2012 MQ 1955–2012 Mq 1955–2012 MHQ 1955–2012 HHQ (December 21, 1993)	394 l / s 673 l / s 2.2 m³ / s 5.8 l / (s km²) 33.4 m³ / s 101 m³ / s
The Franconian Rezat near Windsbach
Markgrafenbrücke Windsbach
Franconian Rezat at water inaccuracy
Franconian Rezat near Georgensgmünd

The Franconian Rezat in Middle Franconia is the more important source river of the Rednitz with a catchment area of ​​456 km² and 77.3 km length . Coming from the left and west, it joins the Swabian Rezat to the Rednitz, the main source of the Regnitz . This in turn is noticeably richer in water than the receiving river at its confluence with the Main , which is why the main hydrological strand of the Main system begins with the Franconian Rezat.

Surname

The pre-old German initial form is Radantia . There is a derivation with the suffix - antia from the Celtic noun rodo . The verbal noun rodo corresponds to the Indo-European verb rede , which means “to dig”. Radantia therefore describes a body of water that digs into the landscape in many places. The adjectival addition Franconian refers to the source area of ​​the Rezat in Franconia .

geography

Rezatquelle

The Rezatquelle between Marktbergel and Oberdachstetten

The Franconian Rezat rises on the Frankenhöhe around 1.5 km south-east of the Petersberg hilltop ( 504  m above sea  level ) and around 2.3 km (depending as the crow flies ) northwest of Oberdachstetten at an altitude of 452  m . A section of the railway line from Würzburg to Treuchtlingen runs directly through its headwaters and later also along the river . A small spring pond, the Rezatbrunnen or Rezenbrunnen , is signposted as the Rezatquelle.

Despite its direction towards the Danube , the Franconian Rezat now drains into the Rhenish system because it was tapped from the Main below Spalt . The Altmühl , which rises less than 10 km to the west and runs roughly parallel to the south-east, has retained this old Danubian drainage direction , which is why today the great European main watershed separates the catchment areas of the two neighboring rivers.

course

The Rezat flows southeast through Oberdachstetten, Lehrberg , Ansbach , Saxony near Ansbach , Lichtenau , Windsbach , Wassermungenau and Spalt, among others .

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Franconian Rezat in Spalt (Panorama)

In Georgensgmünd the Franconian Rezat joins the Swabian Rezat to the Rednitz at an altitude of 342  m , so it has a total gradient of 110 meters.

The Rednitz in turn merges in Fürth with the Pegnitz to Regnitz , which flows into the Main near Bamberg.

Catchment area and tributaries

The catchment area of the Franconian Rezat is 456.0 km². Its tributaries include:

• Hartgraben (right), 3.0 km
• Egelbach (right), 2.5 km
• Birkenbach (left), 0.7 km
• Krummbach (right), 2.2 km
• Stockbach (right), 3.5 km
• Wasengraben (right), 1.6 km
• Ullenbach (left), 3.3 km
• Katzbach (left), 1.8 miles
• Tränkbächlein (right), 1.8 km
• Rosenbächlein (left), 1.4 km
• Borsbach (left), 4.2 km
• Vogelbach (right), 1.8 miles
• Sulzbach (right), 5.6 km
• Klingengraben (right), 1.9 km
• Oberer Feldgraben (right), 1.2 km
• Unterer Feldgraben (right), 0.7 km
• Seebach (left), 1.8 miles
• Dutzendklingengraben (left), 2.0 km
• Zailacher Bach (right), 5.6 km
• Hürbeler Bach (right), 3.2 km
• Pulverbach (left)
• Weihergraben (right)
• Erlbächlein (right)
• Veitsgraben (left)
• Schollenbach (right)
• Gumbertusgraben (left)
• Owl pit (left)
• Hennenbach (left, over the Fischgraben in the Aue), 5.8 km
• Onolzbach or Onoldsbach (right), 11.2 km, 26.3 km²
• Brandbächlein (right)
• Eichenbach (left), 3.7 km
• Silberbach (right) 8.0 km
• Büchenbach (right)
• Iggraben (left)
• Weikersbach (right)
• Milmersbach (left)
• Rackergraben (right)
• Dorfbächlein (left)
• Büschelbach (left)
• Bachgraben (right)
• Geißberggraben (right)
• Zandtbach (right), 9.0 km, 20.6 km²
• Ziegendorfer Bach (left)
• Helmbrechtsgraben (left), 1.2 km
• Weihergraben (right)
• Weihergraben (right)
• Hopfengraben (right)
• Wolfsgrundgraben (right)
• Wernsbach (left)
• Brunnholzgraben (right)
• Seeleinsgraben (right)
• Schwalbenbach (left)
• Goldbach (left)
• Erlbach (right), 3.7 km (with Eschenbach 12.4 km), 43.7 km²
• Kleinerlbach (left)
• Fischbach (left)
• Strietwasengraben (right)
• Beerbach (left)
• Erlbach (right), 8.8 km, 22.4 km²
• Brunnleitengraben (right)
• Allersbach (left)
• Hatzelbach (right)
• Mosbach (left)
• Tiefenbach (right)
• Steinbach (left)

nature and environment

The river and the floodplain are partially designated as the FFH area “Swabian and Franconian Rezat”. In the floodplain, there are poor, lowland hay meadows ( meadow foxtail , Großer Wiesenknopf ) and alluvial forests with black alder and common ash (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae). There are large and coherent populations of the green maiden in high quality and closely networked habitats.

In the upper reaches, brown trout and rainbow trout , aitel and hazel , as well as black trout and brook trout occur, and in the lower reaches carp , tench , eel , pike , pikeperch and catfish .

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Retzat . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 4 : Ni-R . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753101 , Sp. 480-481 ( digitized version ).
• Werner A. Widmann: Fränkische + Schwäbische Rezat: River valleys in Franconia , ISBN 3-922175-28-7
• Reiner Heller: "Mills on the Franconian Rezat .. from Oberdachstetten to Georgensgmünd" Reiner Heller Schlesierweg 7, 91586 Lichtenau

Web links

Commons : Fränkische Rezat  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Current water levels in the Regnitz area
• Frankenhöhe Nature Park
• European watershed trail
• Romantic Franconia Tourist Association
• Waters in the city and district of Ansbach (PDF; 871 kB)
• Waters in the district of Roth (PDF; 481 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TOP 10 Bavaria North
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Directory of stream and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 36 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Flood news service of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment ( information ) (queried on February 22, 2017)
4. ^ Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 187 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
5. ↑ The Hartgraben is longer than the Franconian Rezat until the confluence with it
6. ↑ Designation by street name
7. ↑ ^{a b} Designation according to the parcel map
8. ↑ at Kirschendorf
9. ↑ near Bechhofen
10. ↑ Natura 2000. Accessed August 10, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Anglerbund Ansbach eV