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Hopfenbach
Data
Water code DE : 23863914
location Swabian-Franconian forest mountains

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Kocher  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
Source height approx.  452  m above sea level NHN
muzzle approx. 150 meters in front of an oxbow lake to the left of the river near Altschmiedelfeld from the left and south-southwest in the middle Kocher coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 49 ″  N , 9 ° 49 ′ 49 ″  E 48 ° 57 ′ 49 ″  N , 9 ° 49 ′ 49 ″  O
Mouth height approx.  334  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 118 m
Bottom slope approx. 64 ‰
length 1.9 km
Catchment area approx. 1.4 km²

The Hopfenbach is a forest brook almost two kilometers long in the area of ​​the municipality of Sulzbach-Laufen in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in north-eastern Baden-Württemberg , half of the way between the village of Sulzbach am Kocher and the hamlet of Altschmiedelfeld from the left and southwest into the middle Kocher .

geography

course

The Hopfenbach has about two equally long source branches. The one on the left, officially regarded as belonging to the main line, is being built about 1.2 km west-southwest of the Sulzbach-Laufener Einzelhof Nestelberg at about 452  m above sea level. NHN between the ridge of the Mittelberg, which extends to the edge of the Kocher Valley, on the north-west side and the small Sporn Hopfenhang on the south-east side. From there this Quellast flows approximately around 0.4 km away with its forest blade northeast, which he on about 400  m above sea level. NHN is united with the about as long right source branch, which flows between Hopfenhang left and Nestelwald right through the seine about north-northeast.

The combined stream then flows northeast to north-northeast through the forest. The bank of its about one meter wide, gently winding, about half a meter deep run is secured against a developed forest path on the left with stone blocks, in the bed there is sand and gravel and in some places block rubble. After a further 0.4–0.5 km flows to about 380  m above sea level. NHN from the southeast the 0.6 km long Nestelbach , the only tributary of some importance. Between Kühreute on the left and Altenberg on the right, the stream continues in the same direction through the forest, which stretches to the Kocher. In the valley confluence and the Kocheraue there is a small alder forest around the stream. Finally, the Hopfenbach, which is about one and a half meters wide and deepened by one meter, flows out at about 334  m above sea level. NHN from the left into the middle Kocher , about halfway between the outskirts of Sulzbach in the east and the hamlet of Altschmiedelfeld in the west and just before a loop of the river's oxbow.

The Hopfenbach is 1.9 km long and runs through the height interval of about 118 meters between the source and the mouth with an average bed gradient of about 64 ‰.

Catchment area

The Hopfenbach drains an area of ​​approx. 1.4 km², which is almost entirely in the forest. At its south-western tip of the border lies at just over 480  m above sea level. NHN highest point. Behind the left watershed from here to the mouth, on the short south-west side, lies the headwaters of the Osterbach , which flows over the Steigersbach to the Kocher ; behind the long west-north-west side of it, the Krobach flows almost parallel to the Hopfenbach, which flows out at Altschmiedelfeld . Only the stream running through the short competes beyond on the right watershed of the estuarine up pike blade in the upper region in the southeast of the stream running through the stone blade , and he, like all other tributary to the digester.

The area is almost completely forested, unpopulated and is part of the municipal area of Sulzbach-Laufen .

In terms of nature , it belongs with its upper parts to the Kirnberger Forest , with its lower parts to the Gaildorf Basin , both sub-areas of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains . In this Keuper -Bergland, the brook runs through layers of the Mittelkeuper , from what is presumably the highest silica sandstone ( Hassberge Formation ) via the Lower Bunter Mergel ( Steigerwald Formation ) to the Gipskeuper ( Grabfeld Formation ) in the valley bay and the Kocheraue.

Tributaries and lakes

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

Source of the Hopfenbach at about 452  m above sea level. NHN about 1.2 kilometers west of the courtyard Nestelberg of Sulzbach-Laufen between hops slope and Damenweg in the mountain forest. The creek flows into fast eintiefender Forest blade initially northeast.

  • (Other source branch), from the right and south-southwest to just under 400  m above sea level. NHN , approx. 0.4 km and approx. 0.2 km². Rises at about 445  m above sea level. NHN on the western border of the Sal . About as long and rich in catchment area as the source brook that forms the Hopfenbach.
    From this tributary on, the Hopfenbach runs steadily north-northeast.
  • Nestelbach , from the right and south-southeast to about 380  m above sea level. NHN after the first 300 meters of forest path next to the stream, 0.6 km and about 0.3 km². Rises at about 445  m above sea level. NHN about 0.5 km southwest of Nestelberg and is the western border of the Nestelwald forest .

Mouth of the Hopfenbach from the left and south-southwest to about 334  m above sea level. NHN between Sulzbach am Kocher and a left arm loop of the river in front of Altschmiedelfeld in the middle Kocher . The Hopfenbach is 1.9 km long here and has a catchment area of ​​approx. 1.4 km².

See also

Individual evidence

LUBW

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

  1. ↑ a b c d e Height according to the contour line image on the background layer topographic map .
  2. ↑ a b Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .
  3. ↑ a b Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map .
  4. ↑ Bach nature partly according to the layer biotope .
  5. ↑ Length measured on the background layer topographic map .

Other evidence

  1. ↑ Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 171 Göppingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1961. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Geology roughly based on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes )

literature

  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as a single sheet No. 7024 Gschwend and - only for small catchment area gussets on the eastern edge - No. 7025 Sulzbach-Laufen

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