Kirnach (Brigach)

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Kirnach
Data
Water code DE : 11124
location Black Forest

Baden-Württemberg

River system Danube
Drain over Brigach  → Danube  → Black Sea
source Eastern slope of the Kesselberg , at the Zinken of St. Georgen
48 ° 5 ′ 56 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 52 ″  E
Source height approx.  950  m above sea level NHN
muzzle At the Villingen-Kirnach train station from the right and west-northwest in the middle Brigach Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 20 ″  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 1 ″  E 48 ° 4 ′ 20 ″  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 1 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  725  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 225 m
Bottom slope approx. 18 ‰
length 12.4 km
Catchment area 33.1 km²
Right tributaries Schlegelbach

The Kirnach is a 12 km long river in the eastern Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg , which flows into the middle Brigach from the right and west near Villingen in the Schwarzwald-Baar district .

Surname

The name of the Kirnach is of Germanic origin. And is made up of the rounded Kirn and the word Ach . Kirn or Kürn means mill, but also grain, grain. It is derived from the Middle High German "Kürne", Old High German "Quirn" and Germanic "kwirn-uc".

course

The Kirnach rises in the Oberkirnach sub-community of the city of St. Georgen on the eastern slope of the Kesselberg at Hagmichelshof des Zinkens Kesselberg at about 950  m above sea level. NHN . In a very steady east-south-east course it runs through the districts of Oberkirnach, the independent municipality of Unterkirnach and finally through the sparsely populated western parts of Villingen-Schwenningen, where it flows into the Brigach from the right opposite the Villingen-Kirnach train station .

The Kirnach collects several short inflows from both sides on its course, the most important by far is the 4.4 km long right Schlegelbach , which flows to it in the central Unterkirnach, the only larger settlement in the valley and the 33.1 km² large inflow area is where otherwise scattered settlements and forests dominate.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Fischer, Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 177 Offenburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
  2. ↑ Friedrich Huttenlocher : Geographical Land Survey: The natural space units on sheet 178 Sigmaringen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1959. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  3. ↑ a b Height according to the contour map of the background layer topographic map on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
  4. ↑ Length according to the water network layer (AWGN) on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
  5. ↑ Catchment area as the sum of the sub-catchment areas according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) on: Landesanstalt für Umwelt Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( notes )