Horlachbach

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Horlachbach
Hairlachbach
The Horlachbach in the Horlachtal

The Horlachbach in the Horlachtal

Data
Water code AT : 2-8-92-68
location Stubai Alps , Imst District , Tyrol ( Austria )
River system Danube
Drain over Ötztaler Ache  → Inn  → Danube  → Black Sea
origin in the Stubai Alps from the Zwieselbachferner
47 ° 7 ′ 52 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 42 ″  E
Source height 2679  m above sea level A.
muzzle at Östen in the Ötztaler Ache coordinates: 47 ° 9 '2 "  N , 10 ° 54' 42"  E 47 ° 9 '2 "  N , 10 ° 54' 42"  E
Mouth height 947  m above sea level A.
Height difference 1732 m
Bottom slope 92 ‰
length 18.8 km
Catchment area 71.6 km²
Communities Umhausen
Stuibenfall , the highest waterfall in Tyrol
Stream above the Stuibenfall

Stream above the Stuibenfall

The Horlachbach , also called Hairlachbach , is an approximately 18.8 km long, eastern and right tributary of the Ötztaler Ache in the Tyrolean district of Imst .

course

The Horlachbach rises in the Stubai Alps in the municipality of Umhausen from the rest of the Zwieselbachferner , which is located between the Larstigspitze in the west and the Winnebacher Weißkogel and Gleirscher Fernerkogel in the east, and other gullies in the surrounding mountains.

First the Horlachbach flows north-northwest to the Schweinfurter Hütte and then turns west at the Zwieselbacher Grieskogel . At the Horlachalmen there is a water intake that guides water through a tunnel to the Längental reservoir in Kühtai. The water catchment is cleaned of sediment irregularly after heavy rainfall , which can cause the water runoff to surge. The stream continues through the Horlachtal, where it receives several small tributaries from the right and the Grastalbach from the left. As far as Niederthai, it flows through the rather flat high valley with the Kühwald , and then plunges 159 m down on the edge of the Tauferberg as the Stuibenfall .

After the waterfall and a short arc the Horlachbach again turns to the northwest, flows through Umhausen and opens slightly lower traversing the Oetztal road (B186) in the district of Easts in the coming there from South Inn influx Ötztaler Ache .

Catchment area

The catchment area of the Horlachbach is 71.6 km², of which (as of 1988) 2.1 km² (3%) are glaciated. The highest point in the catchment area is the Strahlkogel  ( 3288  m above sea level ). The diversion into the Längental reservoir will reduce the effective catchment area by 25.8 km².

The Horlachbach is popular with sport fishermen because of its wealth of brown trout , brook trout and, in the lower course, rainbow trout .

Web links

Commons : Horlachbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e tiris - Tyrolean spatial information system , on tirol.gv.at
  2. ↑ a b Federal Ministry for Trade and Reconstruction (Ed.): Österreichischer Wasserkraft Kataster: Ötztaler Ache . Vienna 1948, p. III / 2a 3 ( digitized version, University of Innsbruck )
  3. ↑ Tour tips Schweinfurter Hütte , on schoenebergtouren.de
  4. ↑ Helmut Mader, Theo Steidl, Reinhard Wimmer: Discharge regime of Austrian rivers. Contributions to a nationwide river typology. Federal Environment Agency, monographs Volume 82, Vienna 1996, p. 49 ( PDF; 14.7 MB )
  5. ↑ Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (ed.): Hydrographisches Jahrbuch von Österreich 2009. 117th volume. Vienna 2011, p. OG 399, PDF (12.1 MB) on bmlrt.gv.at (2009 yearbook)