Gründau (river)
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Gründau (upper course: Litterbach ) |
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 The renatured Gründau in Langenselbold |
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| Water code | DE : 24786 | |
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Hessian-Franconian mountainous region
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| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Kinzig → Main → Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | on the south-eastern slopes of the Büdinger Forest as Litterbach 50 ° 17 ′ 41 ″ N , 9 ° 15 ′ 58 ″ E |
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| Source height | 375 m above sea level NHN | |
| muzzle | near Langenselbold (southwest of the Kinzigsee ) in the Kinzig coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 40 ″ N , 9 ° 1 ′ 17 ″ E 50 ° 9 ′ 40 ″ N , 9 ° 1 ′ 17 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | approx. 115 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | approx. 260 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 8.6 ‰ | |
| length | approx. 30.2 km | |
| Catchment area | 95.51 km² | |
| Discharge at the Hain-Gründau gauge (63.8% of the catchment area) |
MQ |
805 l / s |
 The Gründau flows into the Kinzig near Langenselbold |
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The Gründau is a thirty kilometers long, right-hand and northeastern tributary of the Kinzig in the Main-Kinzig district in southeast Hesse . The upper reaches of the Gründau , up to the confluence with the Waschbach , is called the Litterbach .
geography
course
The Gründau rises as Litterbach (formerly also: Littergrundbach) near Spielberg in the area of the municipality of Brachttal and flows through the valley of the same name in the Büdinger Forest , then past Breitenborn , Hain-Gründau and Mittel-Gründau through the Niedergründau nature reserve; it flows into the Kinzig near Langenselbold, southwest of the Kinzigsee .
Catchment area
The Gründau drains about 95.5 km² above ground. Their catchment area lies in a landscape with a moderately agitated relief, which is characterized by fields, meadows and pastures. There are natural runoff conditions and larger sealed areas, artificial retention measures or flood retention basins do not (so far) exist (there is already a retention basin in Gettenbach, one is planned in Breitenborn; an investor has suggested - more or less incidentally as a possibility of further energy savings, to build a pumped storage plant , but without any current intentions).
Tributaries
- Bocksgraben ( left )
- Waschbach ( right )
- Gettenbach ( left )
- Chicken River ( formerly Hüner River, left )
- Hausemichgraben ( right )
- Mittel-Gründau-Bach ( right )
Kinzig river system
Localities on the Gründau
history
In 1771 Jacob and Johann Wilhelm Köhler from Langenselbold applied to the Büdinger Rentkammer for permission to raft wood. The applicants had bought a lot of wood in the Büdinger forest of the Wächtersbacher trunk part ( county of Ysenburg and Büdingen in Wächtersbach ). There was no road or a path along the Gründau from (then) Breitenborn A. W. (A. W. = Amt Wächtersbach) to Langenselbold , because there was no bridge over the Gründau near Hain-Gründau. The two wanted to get a six-year timber rafting license.
After hearing the community leaders , the contract was concluded, the banks cleared of bushes and the brook cleaned (cleared up), a field name Bachputzer-Loch still existed until the middle of the 20th century on the upper reaches of the Gründau and its tributaries in the Büdinger Forest. In the spring of 1771, the short-cut beech wood was transported to Gründau (below Breitenborn) and thrown into the stream; in Langenselbold it was fished out again. The rafting led to several disputes between the residents of Hain-Gründau and Mittel-Gründau with the rafting entrepreneurs and the various Ysenburg governments in Büdingen ( Ysenburg and Büdingen in Büdingen for Hain and Mittel-Gründau) and Offenbach ( Isenburg and Büdingen in Birstein for Langenselbold) . After 20 years there was nothing more to say about rafting.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
- ↑ Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology: Retention register of the Gründau river area ( 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.
- ↑ Heinrich P. Göbel, timber rafting on the Gründau . In: Between Vogelsberg and Spessart, Gelnhäuser Heimat-Jahrbuch 1998, Gelnhausen 1997, p. 104 ff.
