Horloff

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Horloff
Horloff west of Utphe, April 2014

Horloff west of Utphe, April 2014

Data
Water code EN : 2482
location East Hessian mountainous region

West Hessian mountain and valley land

Rhine-Main lowlands

Hesse

River system Rhine
Drain over Nidda  → Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source in Vogelsberg , north of Schotten
50 ° 32 ′ 20 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 54 ″  E
Source height approx.  524  m above sea level NHN
muzzle near Ober-Florstadt in the Nidda coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 6 ″  E 50 ° 19 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 6 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  119  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 405 m
Bottom slope approx. 9.1 ‰
length approx. 44.5 km
Catchment area 279.218 km²
Drain
at the mouth 		MNQ
MQ
 221 l / s
1.004 m³ / s
Small towns Hungen , Reichelsheim

The Horloff is a 44.5 km long, northern and right tributary of the Nidda in Hesse .

Surname

The name Horloff is derived from althd. with the meaning horawin = swampy here. Other forms of the name are "Hurwinaffa" in the 8th century and "Hurlyphe" (1263). The -off component belongs to the -apa naming group.

geography

course

The river rises at an altitude of about 524  m above sea level. NHN north of Schotten in the Vogelsbergkreis at the glider airfield located above Götzen and Betzenrod in a wooded area.

After a long way through the Vogelsberg , the Horloff passes the Laubach district of Gonterskirchen as the first place after a weekend house settlement . It then flows past the Friedrichshütte in the direction of Ruppertsburg , where the Horloff's only level measuring station is located approx. 25 km above the mouth . The Horloff continues to flow towards Wetterau . It pulls in a wide arc around the Borgelberg and then passes Villingen , Hungen and Trais-Horloff . Between Hungen and Trais-Horloff in the Hof-Graß district , the Horloff received a new river bed in the 1950s so that the wells in the Inheiden waterworks are not endangered.

The Horloff crosses the “Kuhweide” nature reserve between Hungen and Grund-Schwalheim . Lignite was mined here in the past , what remained are the upper and lower Knappensee lakes, which the Horloff meanders to the east. From Grund-Schwalheim, the Friedberg-Nidda railway runs parallel to the Horloff, and the river also gives it its name " Horlofftalbahn ". From Echzell the "Horloff-Flutgraben" runs parallel to the Horloff and runs at some distance through the Bingenheimer Ried and the Horloff-Aue. After the railway has left the Horloff near Reichelsheim (Wetterau) , it flows on towards Florstadt and passes the Reichelsheim airfield , whose runways are separated from the apron by the Horloff and connected by two bridges.

About 500 m behind the airfield , the flood ditch flows into the Horloff, which in turn after another 400 m at an altitude of 119  m above sea level. NHN flows into the Nidda from the right .

Its 44.5 km long run ends about 405 meters below its source, so it has an average bed gradient of 9.1 ‰.

Tributaries

The tributaries of the Horloff include (viewed downstream, kilometers from mouth to source):

Stat. in km
Surname GKZ location Length
in km 		Mouth height
in m above sea level NHN 		Mouth
Coordinates 		Remarks
37.8 Höllerskopfbach 24821200 right 5.1 262 Laubach -Gonterskirchen ( ⊙ )
33.2 Schifferbach 24822000 Left 5.9 182 Laubach -Gonterskirchen ( ⊙ )
22.7 Wallenberger Teichbach 24823600 right 5.4 141 Hunger ( ⊙ )
20.2 Hubbach 24823800 right 7.4 139 Hunger ( ⊙ )
16.4 Langder flood ditch 24824000 Left 5.4 129 Hungen- Trais-Horloff ( ⊙ ) also Bachgraben and Bieber ditch called
14.8 Rodheim Bach 24825400 Left 5.8 128 Hungen- Trais-Horloff ( ⊙ ) flows into the Lehngraben (tributary of the Horloff)
13.5 Riedbach 24825916 right 3.1 128 Hungen- Utphe ( ⊙ ) also small stream called
10.6 Pasture ditch 24825994 Left 3.3 128 Wölfersheim - Berstadt ( ⊙ ) west of Grund-Schwalheim
09.7 Waschbach 24827200 right 7.0 125 Echzell- Grund-Schwalheim ( ⊙ )
07.4 Pasture ditch 24827400 Left 8.4 124 Echzell ( ⊙ ) flows into the Horloff-Flutbach (tributary)
07.0 Biedrichsgraben 24827600 right 6.6 123 Echzell -Gettenau ( ⊙ )
04.4 Sommerbach 24827800 right 4.0 119 Reichelsheim ( ⊙ ) also Ortenberg ditch called
03.4 Brühlgraben 24829640 Left 1.1 121 Reichelsheim ( ⊙ ) flows into the Horloff-Flutbach (tributary)
00.7 Border ditch 24829400 right 2.8 119 Reichelsheim -Dorn-Assenheim / Florstadt -Ober-Florstadt ( ⊙ )
The Horloff flows into the Nidda

River systems

Mill landscape Horloff

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ATKIS and Google Earth
  2. ↑ a b c Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  3. ↑ Program of measures for surface waters
  4. ^ Georg Landau , description of the Wettereiba district. Kassel 1895, p. 4.

Web links

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