Great Wimbach

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Great Wimbach
Data
Water code DE : 238636
location Swabian-Franconian forest mountains

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Kocher  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source about 0.7 km north-north-west of the center of Gschwend - Frickenhofen
48 ° 56 ′ 12 ″  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 33 ″  E
Source height approx.  510  m above sea level NN
muzzle 0.1 km from the Sulzbach-Laufen windmill from the left and west in the Kocher coordinates: 48 ° 56 ′ 15 ″  N , 9 ° 51 ′ 15 ″  E 48 ° 56 ′ 15 ″  N , 9 ° 51 ′ 15 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  342.2  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 167.8 m
Bottom slope approx. 31 ‰
length 5.3 km
Catchment area 9.6 km²

The Große Wimbach is a brook in north-eastern Baden-Württemberg of just over five kilometers in length, which flows into the Kocher from the left and west near Sulzbach-Laufen in the Schwäbisch Hall district .

geography

course

The Große Wimbach is the largest and most northerly of the brooks that reach the middle Kocher from the shoulder of the slope of the Frickenhofer Höhe from the left between the mouths of Lein near Abtsgmünd and Fichtenberger Rot near Gaildorf - Unterrot . It has a finely feathered inflow system made up of numerous blade streams. Of these, the Kleine Wimbach, which is only slightly smaller in length and in the catchment area, runs to it on the lower reaches from the right.

The Große Wimbach rises about 400 meters southeast of the water tower on Hohentannen ( 565.4  m above sea level ), the highest elevation of the Frickenhofer level on its narrow north-west spur, on the hillside forest to the east at about 510  m above sea level. NN . From the beginning the stream runs eastwards, after a little over half a kilometer it runs past the southern edge of the clearing island around Gschwend - Metzlenshof and then enters its forest gorge. Here a dirt road enters the valley for the first time, and in this section it soon reaches the Gorge of the Great Wimbach nature reserve , a popular excursion destination.

Before the Sulzbach-Laufen hamlet of Krasberg on the left, it gives way to the right in a small south arch, at the turning point of which the largest tributary of the Kleiner Wimbach flows from the south . Then for the first time there are two small settlements in clearings on the forest slope, on the left the Schneckenbusch residential area , a single property, and on the right the Wimbach farm , both of which belong to Sulzbach-Laufen. About half a kilometer later, the Große Wimbach crosses under the district road from Laufen via Rübgarten to Gschwend- Ottenried (K 2636) and flows a little later, flowing through the forest, from the left and west in front of the weir of the Laufen windmill into the Kocher .

Catchment area

The Große Wimbach has a catchment area of ​​9.6 km² at the drop of the Frickenhofer Höhe, which runs out to the northwest, to the northeast into the valley of the Kocher . Its westernmost point is on the Hohentannen summit ( 565.4  m above sea level ) north of Frickenhofen about 45 m above the source of the stream, it is also the highest point of the catchment area as well as the Frickenhofer Höhe; its easternmost and lowest at the mouth ( 342.2  m above sea level ) at the Sulzbach-Laufen windmill; its southernmost on the summit Strietfeld ( 551  m above sea level ) of the Frickenhofer Höhe between Mittelbronn and Ottenried.

The watershed in the north from Hohentannen to the mouth runs on the first half against the Steigersbach , which also runs further down the valley to the Kocher , on the second half smaller brooks mostly compete to the west loop around the Laufener Kransberg , of which only the one through the stone blade has a noticeable length.

On the southeast side of the catchment area, near the mouth of the Wimbach stream, the stream runs through the Harz blade to the Kocher, and further uphill towards the Strietfeld, then the more important Krempelbach .

Between the Strietfeld and Hohentannen there is at most just under 550  m above sea level. NN sinking watershed all in all to the northwest on the Frickenhofer Höhe, which is often only one to two hundred meters wide and still very flat, on which there are no bodies of water. the other side slope brooks all drain over the Gschwender Rot to the Kocher tributary Lein in the south, whose large competing left tributaries are first the Auerbach , then the Joosenbach back to Hohentann .

A little over two thirds of the catchment area belong to the Frickenhofen district of Gschwend , the rest to the Laufener von Sulzbach-Laufen area . Because of the many steep slopes and valleys, three quarters of them are forested, the remaining parts in the corridor are almost all on ridges and in clearing islands, especially in a central one around Gschwend-Wimberg between large and small Wimbach, one around the Gschwender Metzlenshof in the northwest, lie on the northeast edge of the Frickenhofer Höhe or on the low ridge between the Großem-Wimbach Valley and the downward Kocher Valley around Laufen-Krasberg.

Inflow system

Hierarchical list of tributaries and RiverIcon-SmallLake.svglakes from source to mouth. Water lengths usually according to LUBW-FG10 (data record entries), catchment areas according to LUBW-GEZG, lake areas according to LUBW-SG10, height information according to the contour image on the geodata viewer. Other sources for the information are noted.

Source of the Great Wimbach in the south of the Grabenweg forest, about 0.7 km north-northwest of the center of Gschwend- Frickenhofen at about 510  m above sea level. NN .

  • Inflow between Schelmenwald and Kellersreute , from the right about four hundred meters southeast of the Gschwender Metzlenshof at about 430  m above sea level. NN , 0.545 km. Arises in a hillside forest spring about three hundred meters northeast of the Frickenhofer School at about 477  m above sea level. NN .
  • Inflow at the edge of the Reute , from the left about seven hundred meters east of the Gschwender Metzlenshof at about 420  m above sea level. NN , 0.89 km. Arises in its clearing island between the Metzlenshof and the Steinhöfle at about 470  m above sea level. NN .
  • Inflow at the edge of the (Frickenhofener) Reute , from the left about seven hundred meters east of the Gschwender Metzlenshof at about 420  m above sea level. NN , 0.89 km. Arises in its clearing island between the Metzlenshof and the Steinhöfle at about 470  m above sea level. NN .
  • Seebühlbach , from the left about three hundred meters further east to about 417  m above sea level. NN , 0.991 km. Arises about four hundred meters northeast of the Steinhöfles in the western Waldgewann Seebühl at about 460  m above sea level. NN .
  • Wildsbach , from the right on the southern edge of the (Laufen) Great Forest about a hundred meters further east at about 415  m above sea level. NN , 1.365 km. Arises about four hundred meters east of the Frickenhöfer School in the upper Geigershalde forest at about 505  m above sea level. NN .
    • Shorter source branch, from the right about 439  m above sea level. NN , 0.331 km. Arises at about 455  m above sea level. NN . Has as much intermittent upper reaches again.
  • Inflow between (Laufener) Großes Wald and (Laufener) Reute , from the left at the beginning of the nature reserve gorge of the Große Wimbach at about 400  m above sea level. NN , 0.717 km. Arises between Großem Bühl and Mittelwäldle at about 440  m above sea level. NN .
  • Inflow from the Schweinsklinge , from the left in the middle of the nature reserve at about 386  m above sea level. NN , 0.636 km. Arises on the edge of the middle forest to the Breiten Acker at about 455  m above sea level. NN .
  • Inflow from the Martinsklinge , from the right towards the end of the nature reserve at about 382  m above sea level. NN , 0.536 km. Arises three hundred meters north of Gschwend-Wimberg at about 436  m above sea level. NN .
  • Kleiner Wimbach , from the right below the footbridge at Laufen-Schneckenbusch to about 358  m above sea level. NN , 3.814 km and 4.168 km². Arises as Veitenbach about a hundred meters in continuation of the Gschwend-Mittelbronner Talweg at the edge of the forest of the beginning Klinge at about 508  m above sea level. NN . The Kleine WImbach is somewhat surpassed both in length and in the catchment area by the upper reaches of the Great Wimbach , the following common lower reaches to the mouth is only 0.860 km long.
    • Unterhörnlebach , from the right about five hundred meters east of the Gschwender Schöllhof at about 405  m above sea level. NN , 0.538 km. Arises about six hundred meters east of the Gschwender Kellershof at about 500  m above sea level. NN .
    • Winterbach , from the right about eight hundred meters east-southeast of Gschwend-Wimberg at about 378  m above sea level. NN , 2.332 km. Arises east below the small east arch of the Frickenhofer Höhe between Frickenhofen and Mittelbronn at about 500  m above sea level. NN .
      • Inflow from the hillside forest Geschleif , from the right in the hose to about 450  m above sea level. NN , 0.539 km. RiverIcon-SmallLake.svgRuns a little north of the Gschwender Bruckenhaus at about 490  m above sea level. NN from a tiny pond and about 25 meters lower through a second such.
      • Krähenbühlbach , from the right about three hundred meters west of the northern group of houses from Laufen-Rübgarten at about 377  m above sea level. NN , 0.476 km. Arises east of the Krähenbühl forest crest next to the southern tip of the Rübgartener clearing island at about 431  m above sea level. NN .

The mouth of the Großer Wimbach about a hundred meters before the weir of the Sulzbach-Laufen windmill from the left and west into the Kocher . The stream here is 5.346 km long and has a catchment area of ​​9.616 km² behind it.

Localities

At the run with their affiliations. Only the names of the lowest nesting level denote neighboring settlements.

In the catchment area are in Gschwend-Frickenhofen district

  • on the Frickenhofer Höhe a few houses from Frickenhofen , the greater part of Mittelbronn , a few houses from Ottenried
  • each in a clearing island north of the Großer Wimbach the Metzlenshof and the Steinhöfle ; between large and small Wimbach Wimberg, the Schöllhof and the Käshöfle;
  • on the slope of the Veitenbach (upper Kleiner Wimbach) the Bruckenhaus and the Kellershof .

In the Laufen district of Sulzbach-Laufen there are also:

  • the hamlet of Krasberg to the left above the confluence of the Kleiner Wimbach on the edge of a cleared island;
  • the mentioned Schneckenbusch and Wimbach there right on the valley slopes of the lower reaches
  • a few houses from Rübgarten in its corridor island at the height between Kleinem Wimbach and Kochertal.

Protected areas

The entire catchment area is part of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park . Parts of it, namely the middle Große Wimbach valley and the lower Kleine Wimbach valley, each with side valleys, belong to the FFH area Kochertal Abtsgmünd – Gaildorf and Rottal . The associated open land strip on the Frickenhofer Höhe is located in the landscape protection area named after it. A large part of the watercourses are wet biotopes, in the cleared islands there are hedges that are protected as biotopes. In the Laufen hamlet of Krasberg there is a linden tree natural monument.

In the middle valley of the Great Wimbach, the Great Wimbach Gorge is under nature protection. It is a steep section of the valley in the area of ​​Upper Buntem Marl ( Mainhardt Formation ), Kieselsandstein ( Hassberge Formation ) and Unterem Buntem Marl ( Steigerwald Formation ), in which several waterfalls tumble over sandstone banks, fallen sandstone blocks lie on the valley floor and fresh marl demolitions Indicate ongoing severe erosion .

geology

The Große Wimbach and its tributary system are located in the Keuper , the main stream begins its course in the Stubensandstein ( Löwenstein formation ), reaching in the nature reserve at around 390  m above sea level. NN the Lower Colorful Marl ( Steigerwald Formation ). The Kleine Wimbach has an analogous course and accordingly reaches the Lower Bunter Marl between the inlet of the Unterhörnlebach and the Winterbach . Only in the common lower reaches the Große Wimbach then runs in the Gipskeuper ( Grabfeld formation ), in which it also flows.

In the catchment area above the middle Keuper strata at the edge of the Frickenhofer Höhe there is still tuber marl ( Trossingen formation ), the plateau itself is formed by the erosion-resistant stone banks of the Black Jurassic , on which Quaternary loess sediment is partially superimposed.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the contour line image of the geodata viewer.
  2. ↑ Text entry in blue on the geodata viewer in the headwater of the weir of the windmill.
  3. ↑ According to LUBW-FG10 (data record entry).
  4. ↑ Sum of the sub-catchment areas according to LUBW-GEZG (data record entries).
  5. ↑ Appreciation of the nature reserve “ Schlucht des Großer Wimbach” at LUBW .
  6. ↑ All protected areas according to LUBW-SCHUTZ.
  7. ↑ geology to LGRB-GÜK300 and GK50-SFW.

literature

  • "TK25": Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, sheet no. 7024 Gschwend and no. 7025 Sulzbach-Laufen.
  • "TK50": Topographic map 1: 50,000 Baden-Württemberg, sheet no. 7124 Schwäbisch Gmünd.
  • "GK50-SFW": Geological map of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park 1: 50,000, published by the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg i. Br. 2001. (Shows only a small part of the catchment area in the northwest, roughly west of a line between the eastern edge of Metzlenshof and the western edge of Mittelbronn.)

Web links

Geoportal Baden-Württemberg ( information ), especially with the partial maps / layers