Gründelbach (Rhine)
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Gründelbach upper course sections: Rothebrunnenbach, then Hungenrother Bach |
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 Gründelbach at the height of Utzenhain |
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| Water code | EN : 2576 | |
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Hunsrück
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| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | east of the A 61 50 ° 8 ′ 8 ″ N , 7 ° 35 ′ 52 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 440 m above sea level NHN | |
| muzzle | at St. Goar in the Rhine Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 27 ″ N , 7 ° 42 ′ 21 ″ E 50 ° 9 ′ 27 ″ N , 7 ° 42 ′ 21 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | approx. 70 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | approx. 370 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 40 ‰ | |
| length | 9.2 km | |
| Catchment area | 23.96 km² | |
| Medium-sized cities | St. Goar | |
The Gründelbach is a brook that originates in the Hunsrück and flows into the Middle Rhine from the left after a nine-kilometer east-northeast run in St. Goar in the Rhineland-Palatinate Rhein-Hunsrück district .
geography
course
The brook is created by the confluence of several spring arms that flow down from the watershed a few kilometers away to the Moselle catchment area in the west, which is roughly marked by the route of the A 61 . The official main line rises at about 440 m above sea level. NHN in the forest near the Erzkaul rest area and south of Hungenroth. From here the stream flows through a narrow and increasingly steep forest valley in an east-northeast direction, in which it is accompanied on the lower two thirds of the state road from Hungenroth to St. Goar (L 206). About one and a half kilometers before the mouth, after two individual properties further up on the lower reaches, the closed development on the river begins. It finally flows a little below the exit of the port of St. Goar (Rhine kilometer 557) under the ruins of Rheinfels Castle in the locality of St. Goar from the left into the Middle Rhine .
After a good quarter of its way, the Strittelbach comes to him from the right, after about halfway from the left the Thalbach, which drains its own small brook system, then comes from the source to about two kilometers before the mouth, where the catchment area is already very close has narrowed, shorter streams especially from the right.
The 9.2 km long Gründelbach brook drains 24.0 km² and falls on its way through the landscapes of the south-eastern Rheinhundsrück and the St. Goarer valley by about 370 meters, its mean bottom slope is therefore a respectable 40 ‰.
Catchment area
Like its competitors on the other side of the northern and southern watershed, it drains the 24 km² catchment area of the Gründelbach, roughly eastward into the Middle Rhine. The most important and highest watershed is therefore on the eastern border, where at the northwest corner west of Karbach on the Quintusberg over 521 m above sea level. NHN can be reached and at the Südwesteck on the Kümperich west of Badenhard at least 503 m above sea level. NHN . This watershed to the catchment area of the Baybach , which collects the runoff to the west of it , roughly marked in the terrain by the course of the B 61 , is part of the larger watershed between the Moselle and the Middle Rhine above Koblenz .
Behind the northern watershed compete mainly of Patel Bach and the Tempus Bach , which in located downstream from St. Goar Hirzenach flow into the Rhine, behind the southern most of it in Oberwesel reach Niederbach .
Tributaries
Hierarchically according to the main strands, from the source to the mouth. Length and indentation information adopted where possible, otherwise they are approx. And have been measured.
- (Other source branch), from the right and southwest on the edge of the forest south of Hungenroth , approx. 0.3 km
- Hungenrother Bach (upper course), from the left and west-northwest southeast of Hungenroth , approx. 0.3 km
- (Bach from the Kohldell ), from the left and northwest near the lower Talsteig serpentine of the L 206, approx. 0.2 km
- Strittelbach, from the right and west-southwest above the confluence of the K 101 from Utzenhain into the L 206 through the valley, 2.3 km and 2.2 km²
- Bach vom Wolfsheckendell, from the right and south, 0.5 km and 0.6 km²
- (Bach from the Hemmeseye ), from the right and south-southeast between Schmiedsberg and Rothenbusch , approx. 0.7 km
- Nausterbach, from the right and south-southwest at the confluence of the accompanying K 101 from Utzenhain into the L 206, approx. 1.3 km
- (Inflow), from the left and northwest shortly after the previous one, approx. 0.3 km
- (Brook from the northern edge of Utzenhain), from the right and south, approx. 1.5 km. Several spring branches.
- Thalbach, called the Karbacher Bach in the upper and middle reaches of the east, from the left and finally north at the Hungenroth / St. Goar, 5.7 km and 7.9 km²
- (Stream from the cat bushes ), from the right and south-west north of the Engerslay , approx. 0.4 km
- (Stream from the valley between Karbach and the pilgrimage church St. Quintin southwest of it), from the left and north shortly after the previous one, approx. 0.8 km
- (Stream from the Langenscheider meadows ), from the right and west-southwest, approx. 0.9 km
- Karbach (another branch from the southern edge of Karbach), from the left and west-north-west, 1.1 km and 0.8 km²
- (Bach from the Eschewieschen ), from the left and north-northwest opposite the Nohwasserberg , approx. 0.5 km
- Thalbach (Names upper course), from the left and west-north-west south of Boppard- Holzfeld , approx. 1.7 km. Directional constant to the lower course first named Thalbach , which now flows first southwest, last south.
- (Waldbach from the Kahl ), from the left and west-southwest, approx. 0.9 km
- (Forest stream from the eastern foot of the Eichenberg ), from the right and south-southwest just after the previous one, approx. 1.1 km
- (Waldbach), from the right and south-southeast in front of the first single house in St. Goar, approx. 1.2 km
- Kobenbach, from the right and south on a group of buildings in front of the Hilgert mill, 1.5 km and 1.9 km²
- (Bach from the Kellerlochtal), from the left and south-southwest, approx. 1.0 km
The local names differ from the breakdown into main strands used here for the breakdown.
- The Gründelbach itself only bears its name from around the inflow of the Nausterbach , previously it is called from the confluence of this left upper course into its main line Hungenrother Bach , above this tributary Rothebrunnenbach . Since the latter goes through a Gewann Am Rothenborn after the card, a change in the written language of his name is to be expected.
- The main line called Thalbach here only bears this name from the inflow of the left branch, also called Thalbach , at the beginning of its lower course , which bends in the direction of its inflow, and is previously called Karbacher Bach , perhaps only from the inflow of its left branch from the southern edge of Karbach.
Flora and fauna
The Gründelbach flows through an extensively used valley with many coppice forest slopes, with willows and alders on the banks . Gray herons and mallards are the most common water birds in the Bachtal.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ↑ a b c d GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )