Hösbach (river)

	Hösbach; ( Historically : Altseebach )
	The Hösbach shortly before it flows into the Aschaff
	Data
Water code	DE : 247546
location	Spessart Bavaria Lower Franconia Aschaffenburg district ; ;
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Aschaff → Main → Rhine → North Sea
source	About one and a half kilometers northwest of Wenighösbach in the forest ; 50 ° 1 ′ 53 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E
Source height	approx. 270 m above sea level NHN
muzzle	In Hösbach in the Aschaff coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 6 ″ E 50 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 6 ″ E;
Mouth height	approx. 135 m above sea level NHN
Height difference	approx. 135 m
Bottom slope	approx. 26 ‰
length	5.1 km
Catchment area	approx. 14,422 km²
Right tributaries	Lower Hösbach , Afferbach
Communities	Hösbach ; in the EZG : Goldbach , Johannesberg
	The Hösbach flows into the Aschaff

The Hösbach is a 5 km long right tributary of the Aschaff in the area of the Markt Hösbach in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg .

Surname

The name " Hösbach " is made up of the Middle High German words hôst (highest) and bach . They probably refer to the headwaters. The Hösbach gave the places Hösbach and Wenighösbach their names.

geography

course

The Hösbach rises in a forest area between Wenighösbach and the Mömbris district of Daxberg, northwest of it, near the municipal boundary . It initially flows south-east, first crossing Wenighösbach, from where the district road 10 accompanies it and where the wine pit runs towards it from the left . Further down the valley, it then separates Münchhof on the left bank from an elongated pond on the right, after which it gradually turns to the south-south-west after halfway.

Soon he reaches the building of a brickworks in the floodplain in front of the main town Hösbach, behind it flows from the right the Untere Hösbach and soon afterwards from the same side its largest tributary Afferbach , which comes from Oberafferbach and whose overall length is somewhat longer than his. Here he walks in the village between the gardens bordering the shore. The development of Hösbach now spreads far across the Bachaue on both sides. The stream flows right past the old town center and crosses under the B 26 . Immediately afterwards the Hösbach flows into the Aschaff from the right and north opposite the housing of the A3 .

Tributaries

Wine pit ( left )
Unterer Hösbach ( right )
Afferbach ( right )

Aschaff river system

List of rivers in the Aschaff river system

Flood

The Holy Nepomuk at Hoesbach Bridge

In May 1931 a severe storm hit the Aschaffenburg district . Hösbach was hit particularly badly. Here fell 93 liters per square meter . Large volumes of water came from Wenighösbach and Unterafferbach so quickly that a retaining wall collapsed. Entire streets were torn up by the floods . Some farmers even carried their cattle on their shoulders from the flooded pastures . Seven people were standing on a bridge to watch the flood , when suddenly the bridge collapsed. The violence of the water killed two children and two men. The fathers tried to save their children and jumped into the raging waters themselves. Normally one meter wide and fifteen centimeters deep, Hösbach had reached enormous size that evening. In places it was 30 m wide and 5 m deep. A statue of St. Nepomuk was erected on the Hösbach Bridge, where the accident happened, to commemorate the victims .

Web links

Commons : Hösbach (Fluss) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Bayernviewer of the Bavarian Surveying Administration: Historical maps from the years 1817–1841 ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (The Altseebach flowed into the Hösbach, whose upper course is now called Unterer Hösbach ) @1@ 2
↑ ^a ^b According to the contour line image on the BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes ).
↑ Map service of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2005 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ According to UmweltAtlas basic data on rivers
^ 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. 106 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ Gerhard Nees & Hermann Kehrer: Alzenauer Wetterchronik . The most interesting weather events in Alzenau, in the Kahlgrund and on the Untermain from 365 to 1999. Reinhold Keim Verlag, Großkrotzenburg 2002, ISBN 3-921535-51-4 .

[1] Bayernviewer of the Bavarian Surveying Administration: Historical maps from the years 1817–1841 ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (The Altseebach flowed into the Hösbach, whose upper course is now called Unterer Hösbach ) @1@ 2

[HLB-2] According to the contour line image on the BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes ).

[3] Map service of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2005 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[4] According to UmweltAtlas basic data on rivers

[LfO-5] 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. 106 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[AW-6] Gerhard Nees & Hermann Kehrer: Alzenauer Wetterchronik . The most interesting weather events in Alzenau, in the Kahlgrund and on the Untermain from 365 to 1999. Reinhold Keim Verlag, Großkrotzenburg 2002, ISBN 3-921535-51-4 .