Horloff
Horloff | ||
Horloff west of Utphe, April 2014 |
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Data | ||
Water code | EN : 2482 | |
location |
East Hessian mountainous region
West Hessian mountain and valley land |
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River system | Rhine | |
Drain over | Nidda → Main → Rhine → North Sea | |
source | in Vogelsberg , north of Schotten 50 ° 32 ′ 20 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 54 ″ E |
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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 |
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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 |
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37.8 | Höllerskopfbach | 248212 | right | 5.1 | 262 | Laubach -Gonterskirchen ( ⊙ ) | |
33.2 | Schifferbach | 24822 | Left | 5.9 | 182 | Laubach -Gonterskirchen ( ⊙ ) | |
22.7 | Wallenberger Teichbach | 248236 | right | 5.4 | 141 | Hunger ( ⊙ ) | |
20.2 | Hubbach | 248238 | right | 7.4 | 139 | Hunger ( ⊙ ) | |
16.4 | Langder flood ditch | 24824 | Left | 5.4 | 129 | Hungen- Trais-Horloff ( ⊙ ) | also Bachgraben and Bieber ditch called |
14.8 | Rodheim Bach | 248254 | 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 |
9.7 | Waschbach | 248272 | right | 7.0 | 125 | Echzell- Grund-Schwalheim ( ⊙ ) | |
7.4 | Pasture ditch | 248274 | Left | 8.4 | 124 | Echzell ( ⊙ ) | flows into the Horloff-Flutbach (tributary) |
7.0 | Biedrichsgraben | 248276 | right | 6.6 | 123 | Echzell -Gettenau ( ⊙ ) | |
4.4 | Sommerbach | 248278 | right | 4.0 | 119 | Reichelsheim ( ⊙ ) | also Ortenberg ditch called |
3.4 | Brühlgraben | 2482964 | Left | 1.1 | 121 | Reichelsheim ( ⊙ ) | flows into the Horloff-Flutbach (tributary) |
0.7 | Border ditch | 248294 | right | 2.8 | 119 | Reichelsheim -Dorn-Assenheim / Florstadt -Ober-Florstadt ( ⊙ ) |
River systems
Mill landscape Horloff
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ATKIS and Google Earth
- ↑ a b c Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
- ↑ Program of measures for surface waters
- ^ Georg Landau , description of the Wettereiba district. Kassel 1895, p. 4.
Web links
- Level near Laubach - Ruppertsburg on the HLUG side
- The Horloff - our flowing water
- Horloffaue between Hungen and Grund-Schwalheim ( Memento from September 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Natura 2000 Hessen
- Water profile and program of measures 2482.2 ( Memento from January 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) ( Notes ) → Overview of all Hessian river systems (PDF, 1.7 MB) Obere Horloff
- Water profile and program of measures 2482.1 ( Memento from January 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) ( Notes ) → Overview of all Hessian river systems (PDF, 1.7 MB) Untere Horloff
- The Horloff from the source to the mouth in pictures by Alexander Hitz