Hillersbach

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Hillersbach
Data
Water code DE : 24862
location East Hessian mountainous region

Hessian-Franconian mountainous region

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Nidder  → Nidda  → Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source south of Schotten -Waldsiedlung
50 ° 29 '22 "  N , 9 ° 13' 45"  O
Source height approx.  576  m above sea level NHN
muzzle at Ortenberg - Lißberg in the Nidder coordinates: 50 ° 22 '24 "  N , 9 ° 5' 6"  E 50 ° 22 '24 "  N , 9 ° 5' 6"  E
Mouth height approx.  166  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 410 m
Bottom slope approx. 21 ‰
length 20 km
Catchment area 24.4 km²

The Hillersbach is an approx. 20 km long right and northern tributary of the Nidder .

geography

course

The Hillersbach rises at an altitude of about 576  m above sea level. NHN south of Schotten -Waldsiedlung south of the Vogelsberg .

It flows in a south-southwest direction and finally flows into Ortenberg - Lißberg at an altitude of about 116  m above sea level. NHN from the right into the lowlands.

Its approximately 20 km long run ends 410 meters below its source, so it has an average bed gradient of 21 ‰.

Catchment area

The catchment area of ​​the Hillersbach lies in the Vogelsberg and in the Büdinger Wald natural area . It is drained through the Nidder, the Nidda , the Main and the Rhine to the North Sea.

It borders

  • to the east and south to that of the Nidder
  • in the west to that of the Laisbach , a tributary of the Nidda
  • and in the north-west and north of the Eichelbach river in the Nidda .

Tributaries

Dam of the upper basin "Nidderkraftwerk Lißberg"

Reservoir

On the district border between glassworks and Ortenberg lies Stauweiher Hillersbach with a seven-meter-high dam and 162,000 cubic meters of storage capacity as the upper reservoir of Nidderkraftwerks of Lißberg.

Nidder river system

places

The Hillersbach flows through the following villages:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )

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