Hohteichbach

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Hohteichbach
Waterfall below Unteraspach (step heights; 2 m and 5 m) [QBW 1]

Waterfall below Unteraspach (step heights; 2 m and 5 m)

Data
Water code DE : 2386686
location Hohenloher and Haller level

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Schmerach  → Bühler  → Kocher  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source one kilometer east of Ilshofen -Gaugshausen in Hinteren Wasen near the edge of the forest
49 ° 8 ′ 28 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 12 ″  E
Source height approx.  437  m above sea level NN
muzzle Less than two kilometers west of Unteraspach under the spur of the oak from the left in the blade in the Schmerach Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 22 ″  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 7 ″  E 49 ° 8 ′ 22 ″  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 7 ″  O
Mouth height 316.6  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 120.4 m
Bottom slope approx. 22 ‰
length 5.6 km
Catchment area 6.082 km²
Communities Ilshofen

The Hohteichbach is a brook in the area of ​​the small town Ilshofen in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in north-eastern Baden-Württemberg . It rises at the north-western tip of the Burgbergwald forest and, after about 5.5 kilometers to the west, flows below the Ilshofen village of Unteraspach from the left into the lower Schmerach .

geography

Source and history

The Hohteichbach arises about a kilometer east of Gaugshausen in the rather undulating Hinteren Wasen and a little before the Muldscherre mountain forest as a field edge ditch. Between the gypsum keuper slopes of the forest ( Grabfeld formation ) a few small, flat clay blades run from further to the east, but they hardly ever carry water.

Almost from the beginning, the brook strives westward, crosses under the dam of the Crailsheim – Heilbronn railway line on the outskirts of the small village of Gaugshausen and then flows in the Lettenkeuper ( Erfurt formation ), in a flat and little deepened meadow valley, which here has a few very short tributaries from the Run towards marginal hills, which are often dry in summer. They often accompany field paths that were created in the course of land consolidation, but some show small valley formations on the lower reaches. Two streams on the right begin close to a fork in the field, where a tiny puddle, which hardly dries up even in summer, is hidden behind hedges.

From Gaugshausen, the stream is always accompanied by a driveway in its small hollow. At the valley crossing of the K 2668 Großaltdorf-Ilshofen, it passes the hamlet of Oberaspach, which is almost hidden in the right side valley of its longest tributary beyond the bump on the right, and then reaches Unteraspach, where it comes from the right and at an acute angle of this almost 2 km long Lindlesbach , which begins as a field path ditch , crosses Oberaspach and finally runs verdolt in Unteraspach. At the western end of the village the Hohteichbach flows here not 40 m below the far right edge height and about 20 m below the left.

After Unteraspach, where the bottom of the valley was last at about 402  m above sea level. NN , the steeply incised and narrow Hoheteichklinge begins in the Upper Muschelkalk , in which the brook drops about 85 m over rock banks for about one and three quarters of a kilometer. In it there is neither a path nor a footbridge and at its end the brook pours over gravel banks from the right into the Schmerach , about 1½ km before its own blade flows into the Bühlertal near Oberscheffach .

Catchment area

The catchment area of ​​the Hoheteichbach covers 6.1 km². It has approximately the contour of a slender, parallel to latitude circle segment with a northward arc and stretches from east to west almost six kilometers with a width of usually little more than one kilometer; because the only significant tributary, Lindlesbach, flows in from the right side, the watershed in the north is further away from the Hohteichbach, while the southern mostly follows the left marginal hills of the immediate valley basin at a short distance.

The greatest heights are reached in the east on the ridge of the northwestern foothills of the Burgbergwald in the Vorderen Holz (maximum 476.4  m above sea level ) and then the Muldscherre (maximum 473.8  m above sea level ), over which the hilly forest extends to Eckartshausen . To the west of the mountain forest slopes, the heights in the plain hardly ever exceed 440  m above sea level. NN , the mouth is at 316.6  m above sea level. NN .

In the southeast on a line from the road Vellberg -Großaltdorf-Oberaspach (K 2668) to Vordere Holz competes beyond the upper Aalenbach , everywhere else is the catchment area of ​​the Schmerach . On the other side of the watershed there are only noteworthy tributaries from it near the mouth, namely the Steinbach near Steinbächle in the northeast and the Finsterbach in the southwest, both run approximately parallel to the Hohteichbach westwards and also flow through steep Klingentäler into the Schmerach.

The entire catchment area is in the area of ​​the city of Ilshofen , apart from two tiny and unpopulated snippets on the southern edge that are Vellbergian .

Inflow system

List of tributaries and RiverIcon-SmallLake.svglakes from source to mouth. Length of water, lake area and catchment area and altitude according to the corresponding layers on the LUBW online map. Other sources for the information are noted.

Origin of the Hohteichbach at about 437  m above sea level. NN approx. 1.1 km east of Gaugshausen in Hinteren Wasen near the edge of the forest to the Muldscherre .

  • (Inconsistently flowing ditch in the field), from the left and south before the dam of the Crailsheim – Heilbronn railway line , approx. 0.3 km and approx. 0.1 km². Arises on a dirt road
  • (Inconsistent brook), from the left and south-east to about 421  m above sea level. NN just before the lower outskirts of Gaugshausen, approx. 0.6 km and approx. 0.4 km². Arises at about 429  m above sea level. NN as a dirt road ditch in northern Kirchsbühl (or Kirschbühl ?).
  • (Inconsistent brook), from the right and north-northeast on the western outskirts of Gaugshausen to about 421  m above sea level. NN , approx. 0.7 km and approx. 0.1 km². Arises at about 435  m above sea level. NN on a dirt road east of the wood meadows , which it follows for a long time southwards as a ditch.
  • (Inconsistent brook through Gewann Fischgrube ), from the right and northeast on the western outskirts of Gaugshausen at about 419  m above sea level. NN , approx. 0.8 km and approx. 0.3 km².
    • RiverIcon-SmallLake.svgFlows at about 435  m above sea level. NN a pool blocked by trees ( fish pit  ?) At the intersection of the field path mentioned in the previous inflow with the church path , under 0.1 ha.
  • Lindlesbach, from the right and east-northeast to below 405  m above sea level. NN in Unteraspach at the junction of Badstrasse from Klingenstrasse, 1.9 km. and about 1.3 km². Arises at about 434  m above sea level. NN between fields in Lindle , runs through Oberaspach and Unteraspach, in the latter verdolt.
Beginning of the steeply incised Hoheteichklinge (!) On the western outskirts of Unteraspach

Mouth of the Hohteichbach at 316.6  m above sea level. NN from the left and east in its Unterlaufklinge into the Schmerach , a few steps from its lowest forest road ford, about 1.7 km west-southwest of the Unteraspach town center. The Hohteichbach is 5.6 km long and has a catchment area of ​​6.1 km².

Localities

On Hohteichbach are sequentially Gaugshausen and Unteraspach, the tapered Lindlesbach top and Unteraspach. There are no other settlements in the catchment area.

Landscape and nature

As far as Unteraspach, the Hohteichbach flows through a flat and small valley hollow, a flat to hilly, completely forestless field in which, apart from the grasslands along the two larger streams, arable farming dominates. The region is extensively cleared of land and covered by a regularly laid out network of paved field paths that are hardly ever accompanied by hedges. In the subsequent Kerbtal of the Hoheteichklinge there is forest on steep slopes, as well as on both mouth spurs and east-above the source on the flatter slopes to the northwestern protrusion of the Burgbergwald on Eckartshausen.

The catchment area largely belongs to the lower area of ​​the Haller level of the natural area Middle Hohenlohe level , the slope ascent in the far east over the upper reaches to the lower area of Burgberg-Vorhöhen and Speltachbucht of the neighboring natural area Swabian-Franconian forest mountains . The Hoheteichklinge, like the Schmerachklinge, belongs to the Bühlertal nature reserve between Vellberg and Geislingen with side valleys and adjacent areas .

A small part of the Gipsbruch Kirchbühl nature reserve, which was placed under protection in 1985, is located south of Gaugshausen in the catchment area. After the cessation of gypsum mining, a secondary biotope has developed there, in which a number of bird and amphibian species can be found, including the tree frog, as well as reptiles, dragonflies and butterflies.

A gypsum doline near the nature reserve is under biotope protection , patches of poor grass on the embankment of the Crailsheim – Heilbronn railway line , which crosses the upper catchment area near Gaugshausen, some wetlands east of Gaugshausen, a few field hedges on the middle course and on the upper Lindlesbach , including the edge of the above-mentioned pool north von Gaugshausen, as well as the gorge forest of the Hoheteichklinge.

Remnants of section ramparts stretch over the right mouth spur .

Individual evidence

LUBW

Official online waterway map with a suitable section and the layers used here: Course and catchment area of ​​the Hohteichbach
General introduction without default settings and layers: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( notes )

  1. ↑ a b Height according to the contour line image on the topographic map background layer .
  2. ↑ a b Height according to black lettering on the background layer topographic map .
  3. ↑ a b c Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .
  4. ↑ a b Catchment area according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .
  5. ↑ Length measured on the background layer topographic map .
  6. ↑ Lake area after the layer standing waters .
  7. ↑ Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map .
  8. ↑ The area of ​​the lake measured on the background layer topographic map .
  9. ↑ Profile of the nature reserve "Gipsbruch Kirchbühl".
  10. ↑ Biotopes according to the biotopes layer according to the Nature Conservation Act and the State Forest Act .

Official data portal for water runoff (without default settings and layers): Abfluss-BW - a data and map service of the State Office for the Environment Baden-Württemberg ( information )

  1. ↑ Height according to the legend point contour line (only for scales below 1: 100,000; 1m contour lines only from 1: 3000).

Other evidence

  1. ↑ Geology according to: Mapserver of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes )
  2. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)

literature

  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North, as single sheet No. 6825 Ilshofen

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