Gauchsbach
| Gauchsbach | ||
 The Gauchsbach near Gugelhammer Castle |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | DE : 242168 | |
| location |
Middle Franconian basin
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| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Schwarzach → Rednitz → Regnitz → Main → Rhine → North Sea | |
| origin | Confluence of the plane Bach and roasting at dampening -Weiherhaus 49 ° 22 '55 " N , 11 ° 16' 44" O |
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| Source height |
392.2 m above sea level NHN (source height Ebenbach 408 m above sea level ) |
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| muzzle | near Wendelstein - Röthenbach b. Sankt Wolfgang in die Schwarzach Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '41 " N , 11 ° 10' 25" E 49 ° 21 '41 " N , 11 ° 10' 25" E |
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| Mouth height | 336 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | 56.2 m | |
| Bottom slope | 3.9 ‰ | |
| length | 14.5 km (with Ebenbach ) |
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| Catchment area | 54.56 km² | |
The Gauchsbach is a small year-round rivers 3rd order in the Lorenz Imperial forest south-east of Nuremberg . It is (with Ebenbach ) an approximately 14.5 km long, right and northeastern tributary of the Schwarzach .
Names
It gets its name from the Gauch , the Old and Middle High German name for the cuckoo . This was probably a forest bird typical of the area through which it flows and can still sometimes be heard there today.
coat of arms
The brook shapes the townscape of Feucht ; on an old coat of arms of Feucht, a blue wavy line between green and yellow (for forest and field) referred to him.
location
The Gauchsbach flows from east to west and, together with its spring waters, collects all forest and meadow ditches on the southern flank of a chain of hills of the Lorenz Reichswald over a total distance of 15-20 kilometers. It runs south of the Hohen Bühl / Teufelsbackofens ( MUNA site), the Feuchter Höhe , the Hutberg , the Büchleinsberg , the Kreuzstein , roughly parallel to the St 2239 , and north of the Kanzelschlags (near Weinhof ), from Auf dem Berge ( Grünsberg / Altenthann ), the Dreibrüderberg ( Rummelsberg ) and the Kirchbühl ( Schwarzenbruck ).
It flows into the Schwarzach about 130 meters below its source area Kanzelschlag .
Sources and history
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
Apparently there is no (longer) a spring, the construction of the A 3 motorway has probably cut off an underground water vein. Eastwards at the sign 1000 m to the Burgthann exit, on an embankment about 50 meters away from the road, in spring there is a seepage point that could have been a spring. So one can now locate the swamp forest area at Kanzelschlag ( ⊙ , 458 m above sea level ) near the Weinhof clubhouse as the origin . After other ditches have flowed in, you can soon clearly see a deeply indented ditch in the boggy mixed forest with the small trickle that is crossed east of Penzenhofen by the state road 2239 Feucht-Altdorf. There it feeds two ponds that are visible from the road, flowing around them to the south and crossing the meadow area before, after crossing the road again, it plunges into the dense Rabenholz forest .
Up to there the brook is still called Ebenbach , to which, coming from the northeast, the water- richer Röst from Winkelhaid flows, which is fed from the wet meadow area Schlagwiesen between Richthausener Straße and Staatsstraße below the Kanzelschlag. Their origins in the forest are difficult to pinpoint, especially after the snow has melted or during periods of rain. One of the springs is not far from the western forest path ( ⊙ , 459 m above sea level ), where the water first flows off approx. 150 meters to the west, then follows the edge of the forest to the blunt tip to the south and becomes visible as a shallow swamp ditch on the Penzenhofen meadow road . Along the property boundaries on the eastern edge of the village, the ditch then moves north again and is made stronger by seepage from the field slope. A few other origins lie in the arch of the northern forest path ( ⊙ , 458 m above sea level ) not far from the Ebenbach origin. The water also flows there to the west to the edge of the forest, where it seeps away and only reappears below the meadow in the ditch south of the Richthausener Straße roundabout. The roasting begins ( ⊙ , 421 m above sea level ), where both trenches and a small spring runoff meet. It flows straight west to the town center, flows through a pond at Brunngasse and enters the forest after Bachstrasse behind the waterworks. Like the Ebenbach, it does not always have water there. Only after An der Röst near the Mosthaus does the clear stream gush constantly, feed a fish pond in the forest and meander between the two forest paths to the sewage treatment plant. It turns southwest along the edge of the forest towards the Ebenbach.
Only after the confluence of the two spring waters at ( ⊙ , 392.2 m above sea level ) east of Weiherhaus does the stream bear the name Gauchsbach . After flowing through the pond there, it first flows south past Hahnhof . The Moosbach volunteer fire brigade occasionally uses the water meadows there as a practice area. A little further to the west, the Gauchsbach in Moosbach takes on the Hennertsbühlgraben, which also flows in from the northeast . At the Gauchsmühle it crosses the road in a southerly direction and disappears into partially dense alluvial forest . It flows through another lake, the so-called Haagsweiher , and immediately afterwards emerges from the forest on the eastern edge of Feucht at the Feuchtasia outdoor pool , crosses the road again, meanders through renatured meadows to the Nuremberg-Regensburg railway line and past the Zeidler Castle , where it is the black water from the Büchleinsberg absorbs.
In the center of the wet Gauchsbach is caught in a wide concrete trough since 1928 that since about 1975 by the main road to the Reichswaldhalle and Pfinzingschloss verdolt is. To prevent flooding, a large rainwater retention basin was built there, where a farmers' market takes place on Wednesdays . Continuing through meadows, formerly also designated as a landscape conservation area, the renewed dedication was not made due to the residents' wishes for use, he takes up the Lechle coming from the Dreibrüderberg at the old cemetery . Originally, the stream meandered further north past willow trees that were still partially there. Around 1928 it was straightened with several barrages. The Gauchsbachgrund was renatured for the first time to compensate for the ICE space requirement . By 2020, further sections were laid out again as a meander, accompanied by the creation of a meadow path for hikers and cyclists with water playgrounds.
To the west of the A 9 motorway and the ICE high-speed route Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich , it turns back to the forest in front of the Krugsweihern and takes in the water from the Feuchter sewage treatment plant. In the past, some water from the MUNA forest area flowed into the Jägersee via a ditch . For several years this trench has been flowing into the Jägersee. North of the A 73 is the derivation into the historic Gauchsbach-Leitgraben . South of the autobahn is a wide belt of alluvial forest on both sides of the A 73 autobahn, forming the ramp for a meter-high waterfall north of the Röthenbach cemetery near Sankt Wolfgang . The waterfall is located directly under the bridge of the Nibelungenstrasse , which leads from Röthenbach and Feucht. ( ⊙ , 344 m above sea level ) It has a height of fall of just over 3 meters. Here the water falls over several steps into a small sandstone gorge. It continues where the stream crosses the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal under a water bridge , the Gauchsbach-Brück Canal , flows around the Gugelhammer Castle and behind the factory premises at Heinrich-Müller-Strasse in Röthenbach / St.Wolfgang at ( ⊙ , 337 m above sea level ) flows into the Schwarzach coming from the south .
fauna
In its lower part, which is also a popular refuge for wild ducks and herons, you can sometimes find trout and young eels. Small reptiles, amphibians and water-loving breeding birds such as rail and white wagtail populate the upper reaches. In undisturbed forest clearings, the capercaillie and a number of partridges can occasionally be observed.
Local notices
- MUNA : Abbreviation for air ammunition in the Third Reich , today an unguarded military area
- Altenthann: eastern part of Schwarzenbruck
- Weinhof: western district of Altdorf near Nuremberg
- Hahnhof : District of Feucht
- Moosbach: District of Feucht
- Weiherhaus: easternmost district of Feucht
- Zeidlerschloss : one of three former patrician mansions in Feucht
- Pfinzingschloss : one of three former patrician mansions in Feucht
- Sophienquelle : "the largest contained, baroque spring system north of the Alps" ( Grünsberg Castle ), the water flows south to Schwarzach near Burgthann
- Ebenbach: southern original part of the Gauchsbach
- Roast: northern part of the original Gauchsbach
- Kanzelschlag: source area of the two original parts in the forest east of Winkelhaid - not identical to the street name Zum Kanzelschlag in Penzenhofen
- Hennertsbühlgraben: Waldgraben from the northeast, flows into the Gauchsbach at Gauchsmühle / Moosbach
- Schwarzwasser: Waldgraben from the northeast, flows into the Gauchsbach behind the Zeidler Castle in Feucht
- Lechle: Waldgraben from the south, joins the Gauchsbach after tunneling on the valley road in Feucht
- Krugsweiher: former fish ponds, now renatured as a compensatory measure for the nearby ICE line
- Lettensturz : Forest area and quarry east of Feucht, which drains the Gauchsbach
- Jägersee : two former sand mining troughs, now used as bathing lakes
- Kugelhammer or Gugelhammer Castle : patrician manor in Röthenbach near Sankt Wolfgang
Individual evidence
- Source for coordinates and elevations: Google Earth
- ^ Franz Tichy : Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 163 Nuremberg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1973. → Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
- ↑ a b BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
- ↑ a b List of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 37 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB)
Web links
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Map of the Gauchsbach middle course on the BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )
For other parts of the course and the catchment area, please change the scale or move the section.