Kisselbach (Rhine)

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Kisselbach
Eberbach
Erbach
Old access path to Eberbach Monastery via the Kisselbach

Old access path to Eberbach Monastery via the Kisselbach

Data
Water code EN : 2516
location Taunus

Rhine-Main lowlands

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Rhine  → North Sea
source in the Rheingau Mountains north of Oestrich-Winkel - Hallgarten
50 ° 3 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 33 ″  E
Source height approx.  560  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in Eltville - Erbach in the Rhine Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 6 "  N , 8 ° 5 ′ 43"  E 50 ° 1 ′ 6 "  N , 8 ° 5 ′ 43"  E
Mouth height approx.  89  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 471 m
Bottom slope approx. 57 ‰
length 8.2 km
Catchment area 10.592 km²
Discharge
A Eo : 10.592 km²
at the mouth 		MNQ 2015
MQ 2015
Mq 2015
 		49 l / s
409 l / s
38.6 l / (s km²)

The Kisselbach is a good eight kilometers long, coarse material-rich, silicate low mountain range in the Hessian Rheingau-Taunus district and a north-north-west and right tributary of the Rhine .

Surname

The brook has several names, it is called "Kisselbach", "Eberbach" or "Erbach".

For some, the entire stream up to its mouth bears the name "Kisselbach", for example on the property map, while others name the entire stream Erbach . However, historical maps show the name "Eberbach" from the Eberbach monastery.

On many topographic maps it bears the name "Kisselbach" on the upper course, in the middle it is called "Eberbach" and on the lower course "Erbach".

geography

Headwaters

The Kisselbach rises at an altitude of about 560  m above sea level. NHN about a hundred meters west of the Rheinhöhenweg in a coniferous forest on the eastern slope of the saddle between the Kalten Herberge , the highest mountain in the Rheingau mountains , and the Hallgarter Zange ( 580.5  m ) crowned by an observation tower . Its source is a good one kilometer northwest of the Am Rebhang settlement belonging to the Hallgarten district of Oestrich-Winkel on the border between the Hallgarten forest in the south and the Hattenheim forest within the Hallgarten district .

In the vicinity of the source, a number of other brooks, the Leimersbach also called Hallgartener Bach , arise just under a kilometer in the south, the Dornbach a good kilometer southwest, and the Pfingstbach about one and a half kilometers also in the southwest. The source of the Äpfelbach is one and a half kilometers to the west and that of the Ernstbach a good two kilometers to the north.

course

The Kisselbach initially flows almost four hundred meters in an east-northeast direction in the depression between the Kalte Herberge and its secondary summit, Hallgarter Zange, through a coniferous forest and then about three hundred meters through mixed forest, where it crosses the municipal boundary from Oestrich-Winkel to Eltville am Rhein. It turns more and more to the east and then runs in an almost easterly direction in a deciduous forest tongue surrounded by mixed forest south of the Betzenloch forest and a little north of the border with Hallgarten through the district of Hattenheim in Eltville . A good half a kilometer to the south lies the Hallgarter Zange ring wall , which is believed to have been a refuge for the Eberbach monastery . The stream now runs through the Kisselgrund corridor at the southern foot of the 579.8  m high Erbacher Kopf and is then fed by the water from the Mönchbrunnen to the south of the Kisselrech corridor on its right .

A little further down the stream it turns sharply to the south-southeast and now flows past the Oberen Kisselmühle , also known as the Oberkissel Mühle or Hintere Kisselmühle . A good half a kilometer to the northeast is the Förster-Müller oak , which is on the list of natural monuments in the Rheingau-Taunus district . The Kisselbach then runs through the Kisselgrund meadow to the west past the small hill Kaisersköpfchen overgrown with mixed forest . There a mill canal branches off to the right , which used to drive the Untere Kisselmühle , also known as the Niederkissel Mühle or the Vordere Kisselmühle . The buildings of the mill, which originally belonged to the Cistercian monastery of Eberbach in the 12th century as an "outer courtyard" , are now used by a llama and camel breeding company with around a hundred animals. Shortly below the mill, the two streams join again.

The brook now runs almost southwards on the western edge of a mixed forest through the corridor Hinter dem Gaisgarten . From the Kisselbach, another mill ditch splits off on the right side and the two bodies of water then flow around Hof Gaisgarten from right and left. The courtyard, which is still within the stone boundaries of the Eberbach monastery district, was originally built as a weaver's house in the 12th century. Most of today's buildings and walls were built in 1742. There are tent camp sites near the courtyard . Below the courtyard, a canal connects the Mühlgraben with the Kisselbach.

The two arms of the stream now leave the Rheingau Mountains natural area, then briefly touch the eastern part of the Rheingau-Vortaunus natural area and then switch to the Rheingau natural area , with the Kisselbach simultaneously saying goodbye to the Taunus and entering the Rhine-Main lowlands . The stream and its side arm flow a good hundred meters separated from each other towards the south through the deciduous forest belonging to the Erbach municipal forest. In between there is a strip of green almost fifty meters wide.


As Erbach it finally flows into the Rhine from the right in the Eltville district of Erbach.

Catchment area

The 10.59 km catchment area of ​​the Kisselbach extends naturally from the Rheingau Mountains (301.1) over the Rheingau (236) to the Ingelheimer Rhine plain (237). It is drained through it over the Rhine to the North Sea.

It borders

  • in the northeast and east to that of the Kiedricher Bach , which flows into the Rhine
  • in the west to that of the Rhine tributary Hallgartener Bach
  • to the northwest with that of Ernst Bach , who in the Rhine inflow Wisper flows
  • and in the north to that of the Gladbach , which also flows into the Wisper.

The catchment area in the area of ​​the upper reaches is forested, the mouth area is in the locality of Erbach, otherwise vineyards dominate. In the Bachaue there are also arable land and grassland.

The highest point is the Kalte Herberge at 619  m above sea level. NHN in the northwest of the catchment area.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
  2. ↑ a b c Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  3. ^ Baroque map art on the Middle Rhine, Historical Commission for Nassau, Hartmut Heinemann
  4. ↑ See the web link of the WFD water map service.
  5. ^ History and philosophy of the Kisselmühle breeding company , Eventhof Kisselmühle
  6. ↑ Eberbach Monastery , Monuments Edition