Kaponigbach

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Kaponigbach
Kaponigbach (2017)

Kaponigbach (2017)

Data
location Carinthia
River system Danube
Drain over Möll  → Drau  → Danube  → Black Sea
source at Tristenspitz
46 ° 58 ′ 1 ″  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 34 ″  E
Source height 2187  m
muzzle near Obervellach in the Möll coordinates: 46 ° 55 '49 "  N , 13 ° 11' 55"  E 46 ° 55 '49 "  N , 13 ° 11' 55"  E
Mouth height 670  m
Height difference 1517 m
Bottom slope 15%
length 10 km

The Kaponigbach is about ten kilometers long, year-round water-bearing flowing water in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Carinthia , Austria .

course

The stream rises in a barren scree field on the western slope of the Tristenspitz (2930 m) at an altitude of 2187  m above sea level. A. just above the tree line . After about 800 m to the west, the stream occurs at 1950  m above sea level. A. enters the Krummholz zone, which is characterized by pines , and takes in the water of numerous mountain streams of the Reisseck group on its further flow path . Some of these are only temporarily pouring and some arise at heights of over 2500 m.

At an altitude of about 1500  m above sea level. A. the accompanying vegetation gradually changes into fir stands and the mountain mixed forest begins below the Stranighütte .

After a further two kilometers of the flow path and further tributaries, the Kaponigbach, which has already swelled into a small river there, turns to a southwestern flow course at 1300 m and meanders down to the at about 1000  m above sea level. A. lying, name-giving scattered settlement Kaponig .

Below Kaponig, the water runs in a steep, southern straight line to Dürnvellach , where its water power used to drive a mill. In Obervellach , the Kaponigbach flows into the Möll from the left as a receiving water after it has overcome an altitude of 1500 meters .

gallery

  • View in the upper reaches

  • in the moss soil

  • Scree field in the middle reaches

  • View into the Kaponigtal (2017)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaponigbach on the Carinthia Atlas