Heglach
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Heglach Pfinz-Heglach |
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 The Heglach near Stutensee - Blankenloch |
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| origin | Junction from the Pfinz 1 km southeast of Stutensee - Blankenloch 49 ° 3 ′ 26 ″ N , 8 ° 28 ′ 54 ″ E |
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| confluence | with the Pfinz not far from the Graben-Neudorf train station Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 25 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 21 ″ E 49 ° 9 ′ 25 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 21 ″ E
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| Big cities | Karlsruhe | |
| Medium-sized cities | Stutensee | |
| Communities | Graben-Neudorf | |
The Heglach , also known as Pfinz-Heglach , is an arm of the Pfinz river in the Upper Rhine Graben .
The name Heglach , also spelled Hecklach , is interpreted as a "caught" body of water that is lined with bushes on both banks. Another interpretation points to an old ditch called Hegeloch .
The Heglach branches off a good kilometer southeast of the Stutensee district of Blankenloch , but still in the area of the city of Karlsruhe , from the Pfinz. As a rule, the flow of the Pfinz is channeled completely into the Heglach through a weir .
Flowing the entire course of the river to the north, the Heglach only runs on the eastern edge of Blankenloch, where it used to drive a mill . North of Blankenloch, the upper part of the Alte Bach crosses under the Heglach. You pass Stutensee Castle , formerly a Grand Ducal Stud, where water from the Heglach was used to irrigate meadows . There were two feed lines from the Heglach: First the Seegraben, which branched off above the Blankenloch mill, and then a trough structure north of the castle that crosses the lower part of the Alte Bach. The meadows drained to the Alte Bach, which runs from Stutensee Castle just west of the Heglach.
In Friedrichstal , another district of Stutensee, the Friedrichstaler Mühle is located on the Heglach. To the north of the district, the Heglach passes under the Mannheim – Karlsruhe line . The floodplain south and north of Friedrichstal is designated as a landscape protection area under the name Heglachaue .
Before the district boundary to Graben-Neudorf the Alte Bach flowed into the Heglach until 1739. In 1739 the Alte Bach was connected to the Galgengraben, which runs to the northwest and was expanded to relieve the Heglach during floods. At the same time, the gallows ditch took on an important function in the meadow irrigation in the Graben Bay, for example in today's Oberbruchwiesen nature reserve . At present there is a pipe connection between Heglach and Alte Bach, through which water from the Heglach flows into the Alte Bach, which is mostly dry above the mouth of the pipe. The Galgengraben, also known today as the Alte Bach, drains over the Extended Pfinz Canal into the Lower Rhine Canal .
Not far from the southern head of the Graben-Neudorf station , the Heglach reunites with the Pfinz.
The Heglach was probably built around 1668, when an old ditch was widened as a result of forced labor . In 1784 and 1937 the river bed was deepened.
Before the Pfinz-Saalbach correction , carried out between 1934 and 1962 , the junction of the Heglach from the Pfinz was located southeast of Stutensee Castle, roughly where the Alte Bach now crosses the Heglach.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günther Malisius: Die Pfinz: Once a lifeline, now local recreation and repeatedly corrected. (= Contributions to the history of Durlach and the Pfinzgau , Volume 5). Freundeskreis Pfinzgaumuseum, Historical Association Durlach eV (Ed.). Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-681-8 , p. 62 f.
- ↑ The Stutensee water educational trail and the Heglach - Alte Bach trough structure at www.vsch-khe.de.
- ↑ Dieter Hassler: Meadow irrigation in the Graben Bay: Conflicts between tradition and progress. In: Dieter Hassler (Ed.): Wässerwiesen: History, technology and ecology of the irrigated meadows, streams and ditches in Kraichgau, Hardt and Bruhrain. Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1995, ISBN 3-929366-20-7 , pp. 248-259, here pp. 252 f.
- ↑ Dieter Hassler: A thousand years of effort and no end: The history of Bach building in Kraichgau, Hardt and Bruhrain. In: Hassler, Wässerwiesen , pp. 40–61, here p. 55.
- ↑ Malisius, Pfinz , p. 62.
- ↑ Topografisches Bureau Baden (ed.): Meßtischblatt No. 51 Karlsruhe 1905 ( online ).
