Hirtenbach (weather)

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Hirtenbach
Data
Water code DE : 248412
location West Hessian mountain and valley land

East Hessian mountainous region

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Weather  → Nidda  → Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source west of Zwillingsseife in Buchwald
50 ° 33 ′ 20 ″  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 14 ″  E
Source height approx.  280  m above sea level NHN 
muzzle east of Laubach in the weather coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 16 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 10 ″  E 50 ° 32 ′ 16 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 10 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  211  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 69 m
Bottom slope approx. 26 ‰
length 2.7 km
Catchment area 6.814 km²

The Hirtenbach is an almost 3 km long right and northern tributary of the Wetter in the Hessian district of Gießen and in the extreme southeast of the Vorderen Vogelsberg .

geography

course

The Hirtenbach rises in the Lumda Plateau at an altitude of about 280  m above sea level. NHN in the Buchwald west of the hallway twin soap . It flows first in a south-south-westerly direction in a strip of green through the forest, then through the Rutenkolk caravan park . There he is strengthened in the hallway Am Froschloch from the right by a second swelling arm.

The combined stream then runs on the edge of a deciduous forest through fields, changes its direction to the south, runs in the field Schlagwiese about half a kilometer through grassland and is then fed on its left by the Schellenbach .

The Hirtenbach now continues to flow south-south-west through grassland and finally flows into the northern edge of the western Unterer Vogelsberg natural area at an altitude of about 211  m above sea level. NHN on the eastern edge of Laubach from the right in the weather.

Its 2.7 km long run ends about 69 meters below its source, so it has an average bed gradient of 26 ‰.

Catchment area

The 6.81 km² catchment area of ​​the Hirtenbach is located in the Vogelsberg and is drained to the North Sea via the Wetter, the Nidda , the Main and the Rhine .

It borders

  • in the northeast to that of the Seenbach , which drains over the Ohm into the Lahn
  • and in the west and north to that of the Lauter tributary .

The highest elevation is 350  m above sea level. NHN high Süßekopf in the north of the catchment area.

The catchment area is forested in the north and east, otherwise arable and grassland alternate.

Tributaries

River system weather

Individual evidence

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