Klingenbach (Breitenbach)

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Klingenbach
Data
Water code DE : 238664726
location Swabian-Franconian forest mountains

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Breitenbach  → Fischach  → Bühler  → Kocher  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source little west of the upper Sontheimer Rothofs
49 ° 1 '32 "  N , 9 ° 49' 37"  O
Source height approx.  465  m above sea level NHN
muzzle from the left and west on the eastern edge of Obersontheim- Engelhofen in the Breitenbach coordinates: 49 ° 1 '32 "  N , 9 ° 50' 55"  E 49 ° 1 '32 "  N , 9 ° 50' 55"  E
Mouth height approx.  403  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 62 m
Bottom slope approx. 34 ‰
length approx. 1.8 km
Catchment area approx. 80 ha

The Klingenbach is a 1.5 km long brook in the municipality of Obersontheim in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in north-eastern Baden-Württemberg , which flows eastward at Engelhofen from the left into the Breitenbach .

geography

course

The Klingenbach arises a little to the side of the valley path of the L 1066 from the plateau around Winzenweiler down to the Engelhofer plane . The origin is the outlet of a drainage pipe at about 465  m above sea level. NHN , which about 150 meters west of Obersontheimer Rothof on the noticeable flattening of the plain drains a hillside meadow at the beginning of the valley. The young brook is accompanied here by a swampy strip, at the edge of which there are two older spring sockets with concrete covers, from one of which water flows into the Klingenbach over its first few meters; Somewhat to the side is a more recent spring socket with a mushroom-shaped ventilation hood made of stainless steel.

Fifty meters after the source, the stream disappears at the edge of a field path in a piping that, according to the terrain profile, crosses under a field for the next 150 meters and flows past a strip of fruit trees on the flat embankment on the left to the Rothof property. Then a grassy field path crosses the shallow hollow, which is probably filled up, because on the other side a 3 to 4 meter high embankment drops quite steeply into a V-shaped railing channel. At the foot of the embankment, the stream water flows from the lower lining of a pipe, and when there is a stronger flow, it also flows out of the pipe itself Autumn a nettle field stands. The brook itself flows here in two branches, hard under the embankment on the left and right; on the right side the ascent is higher and steeper, another drainage pipe gives the branch a lot of water from this side. A long group of trees soon sets in at the bend in the slope.

About a hundred yards after his re outcrop If the Klingenbach happened in just a few steps away one about ar large pond on about 440  m above sea level. NHN , to which water occasionally flows from a large drainage pipe from the tree-lined slope. Then the brook disappears again in a hollow, which runs under a meadow that is now lined with flatter corridors.

In addition to a gravel field path that begins, the creek then runs again outdoors, very straight and very flat. Here it is accompanied on both sides by a row of trees initially consisting only of alders, which sometimes have an undergrowth of sloes. Shortly before a crossing asphalted field path, some willows mix in, then the gallery turns completely and it now runs steeper again in a deepening hollow next to the now also asphalted accompanying path towards Engelhofen, at the edge of which it is again underdeveloped the thoroughfare of the hamlet disappears; towards the end of this section there are a few trees and willow branches along the course.

Nothing of it can be seen in the village itself, on the east side of Engelhofen it flows into the meadow edge from the left and, last of all, north-west at about 403  m above sea level. NHN in the Breitenbach , the name of which had just begun in continuation of the Stielbach .

The Klingenbach ends its 1.8 km long, in sections also subterranean course with about 34 ‰ mean bottom slope about 62 m below its origin. It does not have a significant inflow.

Catchment area

The Klingenbach has a catchment area of ​​about 0.8 km², which begins on the piece above the slope of the L 1066 Mittelfischach – Winzelweiler and then extends west and down about 1.9 km to the mouth at Engelhofen. In terms of natural space , it is located in the Swabian-Franconian forest mountains , with the upper part up to the opening of the Talklinge to the Engelhofer level in the lower area of ​​the Limpurger Mountains , then in the lower area of Fischachbucht and edge heights . At right angles to the main extension it is a little more than half a kilometer wide. In the north, behind the Wolfsberg -sporn, the plateau of the Limpurger Berge borders the catchment area of ​​the Amsbach , in the northeast that of a short downward tributary of the Breitenbach. In the south, the Breitenbach itself competes for a short time, then longer its upper course Stielbach , behind the western part of the right watershed that climbs the Kalkberg- Sporn and follows it, then the Stielbach inlet from the Hühnerklinge . On the other side of the watershed in the west, the left main upper course Rotklingenbach of the Eisbach flows little deeply on the plateau , which is the only neighboring water that flows into the Kocher without a detour via Fischach and Bühler .

This western watershed is all over 497  m above sea level. NHN , the greatest height on it is 501.8  m above sea level. NHN in the northwest corner of the catchment area at the approach of the Wolfsberg. About a quarter of the catchment area is forested, this portion lies entirely in the west on the spurs of Kalkberg in the south and - clearly predominantly - Wolfsberg in the north. In the open corridor are in Gestück fields, then dominate beyond the end of the bay erosion of the stream, the meadows, lie on both sides beyond the subsequent bit deep hollow of the stream in the Engel Hofener level usually again fields. The only settlement areas are the Rothof near the origin and the hamlet of Engelhofen at the mouth, both of which belong to the municipality of Obersontheim as over 90% of the area . Only a small strip of forest and meadows on the plateau in front of the western watershed belongs to Gaildorf .

geology

The source of the Klingenbach lies close to the border between the reed sandstone ( Stuttgart Formation ), which stretches along the western slope of the Limpurger Mountains as a band at medium height, and the underlying Estherien layers of the Gipskeupers ( grave field formation ), which are probably also for the steep right bank above the pond a little down from the Rothof is responsible. In the estheria layers, the brook then remains on the paved, crossing dirt road until a little after it emerges from its valley bay. Then it runs in a shallow trough below the corbula layer of the gypsum keuper up to the mouth in the wide strip of floodplain sediment of the Breitenbach.

The uppermost layer in the entire catchment area is the silica sandstone ( Hassberge Formation ) in the piece and on the western parts of Wolfsberg and Kalkberg, under which a sometimes wide band of lower colored marl ( Steigerwald Formation ) spreads out. Below that follows the already mentioned sandstone reed.

The corbula layer that forms steps on the Engelhofer level, formerly called Engelhofer Platte after the place where it flows out , gives the underflow trough a steep trough in places.

Protected area

The entire open Obersontheimer corridor of the catchment area, with the exception of only the two places Rothof and Engelhofen with their soft patches, lies in the nature reserve Fischachtal with side valleys and adjacent areas between Herlebach and Kottspiel .

See also

Individual evidence

LUBW

Official online waterway map with a suitable section and the layers used here: Course and catchment area of ​​the Klingenbach
General introduction without default settings and layers: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( notes )

  1. ↑ a b Height according to the contour line image on the topographic map background layer .
  2. ↑ Length according to the water network layer ( AWGN ) of the LUBW online map server and an additional measurement on the topographic map background layer . The waterway map does not take into account the 300 meter long upper course from the slope spring west of the Rothof to the pond southeast of it.
  3. ↑ Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map .
  4. ↑ Height according to black lettering on the background layer topographic map .
  5. ↑ Protected area according to the relevant layer.

Other evidence

  1. ↑ The pond is almost square with a side length of about 10 meters.
  2. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
  3. ↑ Geology according to the layers for Geological Map 1: 50,000 on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( Notes )
    See also the map of the same scale under →  Literature .

literature

  • Topographical map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 6924 Gaildorf and No. 6925 Obersontheim
  • Geological map of Baden-Württemberg 1: 25,000, published by the State Geological Office 1982, sheet no. 6925 Obersontheim with explanatory booklet.

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