Kelsbaach

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Kelsbaach
Kelsbach
Data
location Lorraine step country

Luxembourg

River system Rhine
Drain over Moselle  → Rhine  → North Sea
source in the Houwald
49 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 23 ′ 4 ″  E
Source height approx.  289  m
muzzle north of Wormeldingen - Machtum coordinates: 49 ° 39 '53 "  N , 6 ° 25' 33"  O 49 ° 39 '53 "  N , 6 ° 25' 33"  O
Mouth height 139  m
Height difference approx. 150 m
Bottom slope approx. 42 ‰
length 3.6 km
Catchment area 4.22 km²

The Kelsbaach is a three and a half kilometer long, western and left tributary of the Moselle in the Luxembourg canton of Grevenmacher .

geography

course

The Kelsbaach rises at a height of 289  m in Gutland in the area of ​​the Grevenmacher im Houwald district . The source is in the forest reserve Oberdonven-Houwald .

The stream initially flows, gently meandering , about three hundred meters south-southwest through a mixed forest of oaks and beeches and then changes to the east. Almost 150 m down the stream, another spring branch strengthens it on its left.

The Kelsbaach is now heavily straightened and continues eastwards through the wooded Scheedergrond and then runs into a green strip with first an extensive hay meadow and then a marsh marigold meadow . A little later, the Scheissbaach, coming from the north, flows from the left . The Kelsbaach now changes to the south and is then fed north of the Scheederwiss on the right-hand side by an unnamed forest stream. The Kelsbaach now enters the open corridor, then, accompanied by wood, runs southeast through farmland and then crosses under the CR 143 . The stream now flows eastwards, then north-eastwards through fields and meadows, partly dry lime grass with particularly orchid-rich stands of the Kelsbaach nature reserve . It is accompanied by a thick strip of trees that is spreading more and more into a forest. He then squeezes through a narrow wooded valley with limestone cliffs and the corresponding crevice vegetation. The valley is part of Natura 2000 - Habitat Greivenmaacherbierg .

The Kelsbaach now runs south of the vineyard parcels , crosses under the N.10 and finally flows north of the Wormeldingen district of Machtum at a height of 139  m from the left into the Moselle, which is last approaching from the south .

Catchment area

The approximately 4 km² catchment area of ​​the Kelsbaach lies in Gutland and is drained to the North Sea via the Moselle and the Rhine .

It will

limited.

Most of the catchment area is forested; fields and meadows predominate only in the southeast. The highest point is the 300.7  m high Gillingerhéicht .

Tributaries

  • Scheissbaach ( left ), 1.5 km

geology

The source area of ​​the Kelsbaach lies in the stone marlkeuper with layers of gypsum and calcite. The middle course is characterized by Pseudomorphosenkeuper and Lettenkeuper . The lower course lies in the boundary layers and ceratite layers and the trochite layers, the direct mouth area in the anthydrite group of the shell limestone .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Self-measurement on the Geoportail Luxembourg
  2. ↑ Keuper à pseudomorphoses de sel (faciès normal)
  3. ^ Couches limites et couches à Ceratites
  4. ↑ Couches à entroques
  5. ^ Groupe de l'anhydrite