Kennerbach (Moselle)

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Kennerbach
Data
Water code DE : 267154
location Moselle valley

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Moselle  → Rhine  → North Sea
source south of Kenn
49 ° 47 ′ 37 ″  N , 6 ° 43 ′ 48 ″  E
Source height approx.  223  m above sea level NHN 
muzzle on the Kenner Flur in the Moselle Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 42 ″  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 41 ″  E 49 ° 48 ′ 42 ″  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 41 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  123  m above sea level NHN 
Height difference approx. 100 m
Bottom slope approx. 29 ‰
length 3.4 km
Catchment area 2.968 km²

The Kennerbach is a three kilometer long, southwest and right tributary of the Moselle near Kenn in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Trier-Saarburg . It has the river code number 267154.

geography

course

The Kennerbach rises at an altitude of about 223  m above sea level. NHN in a forest south of the local community of Kenn.

It first flows about two hundred and fifty meters in a north-northwest direction through forest terrain and then crosses under state road 151 .

A little further down the stream it leaves the forest, flows through a sports field and disappears underground at the southern edge of Kenn. It now passes underground piped and in an almost northerly direction parallel to Reihstraße and then reappears on the surface after a good eight hundred meters south of Landesstraße 145 in an industrial area on the northern edge of the town.

The stream bends sharply there to the east-northeast and then runs about seven hundred meters south of the federal highway 602 ( Europastraße 44 ) along the northern edge of the industrial area. It then makes an arc through fields and meadows to the south and takes on the New Geischbach flowing in from the right .

It still crosses under the A 602 and the L 145 and finally ends in the eastern tip of the Kenner Flurs on the district of Ruwer-Paulin (city of Trier ) at an altitude of about 100  m above sea level. NHN from right into the Moselle .

The approximately 3.4 km long course of the Kennerbach ends about 100 meters below its source, so it has a mean bed gradient of about 29 ‰.

Catchment area

The 2.968 km² catchment area of ​​the Kennerbach lies in the Trier Moselle valley and is drained through it via the Moselle and the Rhine to the North Sea.

It borders

  • in the east to that of the Kirscherbach , which flows into the Moselle
  • in the south to that of the Wenzelbach , also a tributary of the Moselle
  • and otherwise to that of the Moselle itself.

Tributaries

  • Neuer Geischbach [GKZ 2671542] ( right ), 1.6 km, 0.85 km²

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Topographic map 1: 25,000
  2. ↑ a b Rhineland Water Management Administration