Herschbach (Kesselinger Bach)

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Herschbach
Weidenbach (German base map 1: 5000)
Data
Water code DE : 2718746
location Eifel

Rhineland-Palatinate

Ahrweiler district
River system Rhine
Drain over Kesselinger Bach  → Ahr  → Rhine  → North Sea
source approx. 500 m east of Jammelshofen
50 ° 23 ′ 18 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 16 ″  E
Source height approx.  541  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in Kesseling in the Kesselinger Bach Coordinates: 50 ° 28 '55 "  N , 7 ° 1' 28"  E 50 ° 28 '55 "  N , 7 ° 1' 28"  E
Mouth height approx.  229  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 312 m
Bottom slope approx. 25 ‰
length 12.7 km
Catchment area 36.682 km²
Communities Jammelshofen , Kaltenborn , Herschbach , Weidenbach , Kesseling

The Herschbach is a 12.7 km long, left and southern tributary of the Kesselinger Bach in the district of Ahrweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany .

geography

course

The Herschbach rises less than two kilometers east of the summit of the Hohe Acht ( 746.9  m above sea level ) near the village of Jammelshofen in the local community of Kaltenborn . The source is about 500 m east of the village in a small forest gorge at  541  m above sea level. NHN , over which the federal road 412 ("Ardennenstraße") runs close to the ridge . From here, the stream initially flows in a north-westerly direction, from the Jammelshofen you pass immediately, accompanied by Kreisstraße 23 , which then joins Landesstraße 90 in Kaltenborn, which is also on the left-hand side 0of the slope, which is Talstraße for the rest of the way.

About one kilometer below Kaltenborn, it turns for about two kilometers on a north-east course to the district of Herschbach , after which it flows almost exactly north to the end. Between this place and the Weidenbach , which follows about three kilometers down the valley , it changes over to the municipality of Kesseling . In the eponymous main town of the local community, it flows another three and a half kilometers further from the left and south into the Ahr tributary Kesselinger Bach coming from the east .

Other sources let the Kesselinger Bach itself arise in Kesseling from the confluence of the left Herschbach and the right upper course of the Kesselinger Bach, also known as the Staffeler Bach .

Catchment area and tributaries

On its 12.7 km long path, the stream loses 312 meters in height, giving it a mean bed gradient of 18 ‰. The 36.7 km² catchment area drains via the Kesselinger Bach , the Ahr and the Rhine to the North Sea .

The tributaries of the Herschbach include (downstream, without nameless streams)
Stat. in km
Surname GKZ location Length
in km 		EZG
in km²
012.10 Jammelshofen brook Left0 000.3000
010.20 Seiffenbach 2718746-12 Left0 001.0770 0001,4360
009.50 Hohe-Achter Bach (Odenbach) 2718746-14 Left0 002.5300 0001.9080
009.10 Schenkbach 2718746-2 Left0 002.2830 0001,7710
007.70 Kackenbach (also Kakenbach) 2718746-4 right 002.5490 0004.1430
006.70 Alchenbach 2718746-6 Left0 003,7950 0005.1350
006.30 Schwaderbach 2718746-8 right 002.6590 0002.8200
005.20 Weitscheider Bach 2718746-912 Left0 000.6790 0000.4550
004.70 Tomichbach 2718746-914 right 001.2550 0002.1180
004.30 Kammersbach 2718746-929 right 001.2070 0000.8830
003.90 Weidenbach 2718746-932 right 001,4420 0001.1030
002.50 Bach from the Hohe Nück 2718746-949 Left0 001.7510 0001.6010
002.60 Clay trench 2718746-992 right 000.6940 0000.5420
001.70 Kesselinger Bach 2718746-994 Left0 000.9130 0000.6470

Notes on the table

  1. ↑ waters code , the official in Germany watercourses code with inserted for readability separator behind the prefix uniform for all common outfall Herschbach is.
  2. ↑ The information for length, catchment area and stationing were measured manually on the German basic map 1: 5000 in the map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes ) and are therefore correspondingly inaccurate.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  2. ↑ a b c d GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )
  3. ^ German basic map 1: 5000