Kößnach (river)

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Kößnach
Kösnach
Kößnach near Kößnach

Kößnach near Kößnach

Data
Water code DE : 15762
location District of Straubing-Bogen
River system Danube
Drain over Danube  → Black Sea
source at Wiesenfelden -Kragenroth
49 ° 2 '2 "  N , 12 ° 34' 30"  O
Source height approx.  645  m
muzzle at Straubing -Sossau in the Danube (confluence through river regulation) Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 34 ′ 19 ″  E 48 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 34 ′ 19 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  315  m
Height difference approx. 330 m
Bottom slope approx. 17 ‰
length 19.2 km
Catchment area 86.15 km²
Left tributaries Dreibrunnengraben
Right tributaries Cold ditch, excavator ditch, Falkenfelser Bach
Communities Wiesenfelden , Falkenfels , Kirchroth , Straubing

The Kößnach is a stream in the district of Straubing-Bogen , Lower Bavaria . It is one of the northern tributaries of the Danube in the Bavarian Forest .

course

It rises near Kragenroth in the municipality of Wiesenfelden and after about 1.5 km near the district of Roth it reaches the area of ​​the municipality of Falkenfels . From the district of Stegmühl , the Kößnach marks the border between the communities of Wiesenfelden and Falkenfels. About 6.25 km after the source it takes on the Falkenfelser Bach . At km 7.3 km it reaches the municipality of Kirchroth . Originally the confluence with the Danube was in the Kößnach district of the Kirchroth community. In connection with the construction of the Straubing barrage , the mouth was relocated to the Sossau district of the city of Straubing . Through the diked Kößnach down trap with a length of 2.5 km, the water of the Kößnach is now guided parallel to the so-called Öberauer Donauschleife , an oxbow lake of the Danube, in an artificially created stream bed, and then below the Straubing barrage at river kilometer 2320.7 in to flow into the Danube.

Mouth of the Kößnach downcomer into the Old Danube

Web links

Commons : Kößnach (Fluss)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavaria Atlas - map of the source area
  2. ↑ Bavaria Atlas - map of the estuary area
  3. ↑ a b List of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Danube river area from Naab to Isar. (PDF; 2.7 MB) Bavarian State Office for the Environment, accessed on April 20, 2014 .