Little Kösslbach
| (Smaller) Kösslbach or Kesselbach | ||
 The Kleine Kösslbach in the nature reserve |
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| Data | ||
| location | Sauwald , Upper Austria | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | near Reiting am Feichtberg 48 ° 28 ′ 40 ″ N , 13 ° 42 ′ 7.5 ″ E |
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| Source height | about 640 m above sea level A. | |
| muzzle | above Wesenufer in the Danube Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '55 " N , 13 ° 47' 22.9" E 48 ° 27 '55 " N , 13 ° 47' 22.9" E |
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| Mouth height | 284 m above sea level A. | |
| Height difference | about 356 m | |
| Bottom slope | about 25 ‰ | |
| length | 14.5 km | |
| Left tributaries | Perlbach | |
| Right tributaries | Klaffenbach, Bärenbach | |
| Communities | Sankt Aegidi , Natternbach , Neukirchen am Walde , Waldkirchen am Wesen , Engelhartszell | |
| Nature reserve valley of the Kleiner Kößlbach | ||
The Kösslbach (also spelled Kößlbach , Kesslbach and Kesselbach , Kleiner K. in contrast to the Kösslbach near Freinberg ) is a small brook to the Danube with a length of 14.5 km in the Sauwald , a wooded area in north-western Upper Austria . The valley of the Kleiner Kößlbach is a nature reserve .
Run and landscape
The stream rises near Reiting (municipality of Sankt Aegidi) , on the Engelhartszell / St. Aegidi municipality boundary , on Feichtberg at about 640 m above sea level. A. , and flows in a south-easterly direction over the Sauwald plateau, takes on the Klaffenbach (also from Feichtberg), and runs along the edge of the Hörzinger Forest , where it forms the municipal boundary to Natternbach . It then turns north at Straß ob St. Sixt, a town in the Neukirchen am Walde community . From Sittling, municipality of Waldkirchen am Wesen , where the Perlbach (with Moserbach ) also flows from Sankt Aegidi, it deepens into a gorge that forms the municipal boundary to Waldkirchen and then Engelhartszell again, and flows 284 m above Wesenufer with the Bärenbach in the Danube.
In the gorge lies the Harchheim castle ruins , also known as the Burgstall ruins.
Nature reserve
The nature reserve Tal des Kleiner Kößlbaches ( n075 ) encompasses the lower reaches of the Kleiner Kößlbach and is designated with 67.2427 hectares. It is located in the municipality of St. Aegidi, Neukirchen aW and Engelhartszell, and was established in 1996.
The "predominantly near-natural forest types ( beech , oak-hornbeam , linden-block and ravine forests ) on steep, boulder-rich valley flanks" are protected. "The protected area is also located entirely in the Upper Danube and Aschach Valley European Protected Area and belongs to Upper Austria Spatial planning unit Danube gorge and side valleys .
literature
- The Kleine Kößlbach - portrait of a valley gorge ecosystem. In: Natural history station of the city of Linz (ed.): ÖKO.L magazine for ecology, nature and environmental protection. Volume 5, Issue 4, Linz 1983, pp. 3–10 ( PDF (2.1 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
Web links
- Valley of the Kleine Kößlbach , Genisys detailed view (https) - there link to map (pdf) and DORIS.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System (DORIS)
- ↑ a b c ÖK 50 : Kl. Kösslbach at the mouth, Kl. Kesselbach at the source; DORIS / GEONAM : Kösslbach .
- ↑ a b as Kesslbach (Kleiner Kößlbach, Kesselbach) : spatial unit Danube gorge and side valleys . In: Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Nature Conservation Department (Hrsg.): Nature and Landscape / Leitbilder für Oberösterreich (NaLa) . tape 19 . Lochen / Linz 2004, A5.4 Water system , p. 23 ( land-oberoesterreich.gv.at [PDF] revised 2007).
- ↑ Ordinance of the above mentioned State government of July 15, 1996, with which the valley of the Kleiner Kößlbach in the communities Engelhartszell, St. Aegidi and Waldkirchen aW is established as a nature reserve. StF: LGBl. No. 69/1996 as amended