Hortenbach

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Hortenbach
Mouth of the Hortenbach

Mouth of the Hortenbach

Data
Water code DE : 2736854
location Bergische plateaus

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Dhünn  → Wupper  → Rhine  → North Sea
source at Großspezard
51 ° 2 '47 "  N , 7 ° 8' 55"  O
Source height 203  m above sea level NN
muzzle Menrath and Rösberg in Dhünn coordinates: 51 ° 2 '48 "  N , 7 ° 7' 32"  E 51 ° 2 '48 "  N , 7 ° 7' 32"  E
Mouth height 84.3  m above sea level NN
Height difference 118.7 m
Bottom slope 62 ‰
length 1.9 km
Catchment area 1.853 km²
Discharge
A Eo : 1.853 km²
at the mouth 		MNQ
MQ
Mq
 		0.91 l / s
28.85 l / s
15.6 l / (s km²)

The Hortenbach is a 1.9 km long orographically left tributary of the Dhünn , a tributary of the Wupper .

geography

course

The Hortenbach rises at an altitude of about 203  m above sea level. NHN near Großspezard .

It flows in a westerly direction through mostly forest terrain and finally flows into the Dhünn from the left between 84.3  m between Menrath and Rösberg .

Tributaries

Its tributaries are:

  • Hortenbacher Siefen ( left ), 1.6 km
  • Großer Eichenberger Siefen ( left ), 0.2 km
  • Hohebergsiefen ( right ), 0.3 km

River system Dhünn

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Paffen , Adolf Schüttler, Heinrich Müller-Miny: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 108/109 Düsseldorf / Erkelenz. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 7.1 MB)
  2. ↑ a b c d River Area Geoinformation System of the Wupper Association (FluGGS Wupper)
  3. ↑ Modeled discharge values according to the specialist information system ELWAS, Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection NRW ( notes )