Hellenbach (Main)
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Hellenbach upper course: Werniggraben |
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 The Hellenbach at the Alte Fasanerie |
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| Water code | DE : 247798 | |
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Rhine-Main lowlands
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| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Main → Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | south of Froschhausen 50 ° 2 ′ 37 ″ N , 8 ° 55 ′ 56 ″ E |
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| Source height | 118 m above sea level NHN | |
| muzzle | in Hanau-Steinheim in the Main Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 24 ″ N , 8 ° 55 ′ 6 ″ E 50 ° 6 ′ 24 ″ N , 8 ° 55 ′ 6 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 100 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | 18 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 1.7 ‰ | |
| length | approx. 10.8 km ( main line Werniggraben-Hellenbach without oxbow lake )
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| Catchment area | 13.913 km² | |
The Hellenbach is a more than eleven kilometers long, southern and orographically left tributary of the Main in the Offenbach and Main-Kinzig districts in Hesse . It is the last remnant of the old Main river south of Hanau - Klein-Auheim . Originally the source of the Hellenbach was west of Hainburg , but in 2009 the Werniggraben, which ran a little further south, was completely diverted into the Hellenbach. This made the Werniggraben the new upper reaches of the Hellenbach.
geography
course
Werniggraben
The Werniggraben rises south of Froschhausen on the federal highway 3 . It flows around the place through the nature reserves Kortenbach near Froschhausen and Obermannslache near Froschhausen and takes on the Weihersbach south of Hainstadt in the nature reserve Langhorst von Hainburg and Seligenstadt . In this area, the Werniggraben was called "Stinkbach" by the locals. From the Hainstädter tennis facilities, the Werniggraben used to flow underground through the town and flow into the Main opposite the Staudinger power plant . Since the measures in 2009, this old course has been shut down and the creek bed dug above ground further north to the source of the Hellenbach creek, which hardly has any water.
Hellenbach
From its former source (location) , the Hellenbach, now reinforced by the water of the Werniggraben, flows through the nature reserve Im Woog von Hainstadt . Then it reaches the Urmain loop coming from the Schifflache in the nature reserve Untere Fasanerie von Klein-Auheim . The Hellenbach then runs past the Alte Fasanerie wildlife park and Tistrasee , crosses under the federal highway 43a and flows through an alluvial forest area . He then crosses over a length of 1.2 km that the conservation area town of Hanau belonging Hellental and reaches Hanau-Steinheim , where a portion of its water into a Kneipp facility is managed. From there, the Hellenbach forms the border with Klein-Auheim and flows into the Altarm Steinheimer Altmain .
Catchment area
The catchment area of the Hellenbach is almost 14 km² and is drained to the North Sea via the Main and Rhine .
Most of it is located in the Auheim-Kleinostheimer Main valley natural area and only the direct confluence area belongs to the Fechenheim-Steinheimer Main valley natural area . Both sub-units belong to the natural spatial main unit of the Lower Main Level and thus to the main unit group Rhein-Main-Tiefland . Administratively, the upper course and the middle area belong to the Offenbach district and the lower course to the Main-Kinzig district .
The catchment area borders
- in the southeast to that of the small Main tributary Bachgraben
- in the west to the Rodau , also a tributary of the Main
- and otherwise to sub-catchment areas of the Main.
Tributaries
- Trinkborngraben ( left ), 0.1 km
- Weihersbach ( Weigertsbach ) ( left ), 1.5 km
- Stream from the Fasanerie ( left ), 0.7 km
Protected areas
- Kortenbach nature reserve near Froschhausen
- NSG Schwarzbruch and NSG Pechgraben near Seligenstadt
- Obermannslache nature reserve near Froschhausen
- Nature reserve Langhorst von Hainburg and Seligenstadt
- Sand pine forest bird sanctuary in the eastern Lower Maine Plain
- Untere Fasanerie nature reserve in Klein-Auheim
See also
Web links
- Course and catchment area of the Hellenbach on the water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
- ↑ Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 139 Frankfurt a. M. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. → Online map (PDF; 4.9 MB)
- ↑ In the case of the WFD Viewer, the stationing of the Hellenbach begins at the confluence of the Steinheimer Altmain arm in the Main . The confluence of the Hellenbach in the oxbow lake occurs at about river KM 0.5. The main line Werniggraben-Hellenbach is about 10.8 km long.
- ↑ Official length according to the water chart service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
- ↑ Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
- ^ NSG Im Woog von Hainstadt: Successes / Development
- ↑ Sometimes also Mühl- u. Werniggraben
- ↑ Renaturation of the Werniggraben
- ↑ Steinheimer Altmain (GKZ: 24779892)
- ^ City of Hanau: Hellenbach and Steinheimer Altmainarm
- ↑ course of the drinking Born trench on the register map
- ↑ Both designations Weihersbach and Weigertsbach can be found on the WFD Viewer
- ↑ Bach von der Fasanerie on the water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )