Kreßbach (Jagst, Herbolzheim)
| Kreßbach | ||
 The Kreßbach near Herbolzheim. The picture with exceptionally heavy tree growth is not representative of the overall course. |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | DE : 238878 | |
| location |
Hohenloher and Haller level
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| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Jagst → Neckar → Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | on the edge of the Harthäuser Forest south of Züttlingen at Fichtenhof 49 ° 16 '53 " N , 9 ° 20' 9" E |
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| Source height | approx. 278 m above sea level NHN | |
| muzzle | in Herbolzheim shortly before the Jagstbrücke in the Jagst coordinates: 49 ° 16 '54 " N , 9 ° 15' 34" E 49 ° 16 '54 " N , 9 ° 15' 34" E |
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| Mouth height | below 157 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | approx. 121 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 19 ‰ | |
| length | 6.5 km | |
| Catchment area | 5.414 km² | |
| Small towns |
Neudenau Neuenstadt short left area neighbor Möckmühl tiny EZG share |
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The Kreßbach is a small brook in the north of Baden-Württemberg that flows into the lower Jagst from the left in the village of Herbolzheim in the small town of Neudenau in the Heilbronn district . It should not be confused with the Jagst tributary of the same name, except for the spelling, Kressbach am Oberlauf near Ellwangen .
geography
course
The Kreßbach flows consistently to the west on its short course.
At its upper section, it is more of a temporary water-bearing ditch than a stream. This ditch begins on the western edge of the Harthäuser Forest near Neudenauer Fichtenhof, near the border between Neudenau and the Züttlinger district of the town of Möckmühl near its hamlet Ernstein . It passes the hamlet of Kreßbach on the southern edge of the settlement , where the only noticeable tributary reaches it from the right, a ditch of the same character about one kilometer in length. Here his valley is still a fairly shallow depression on the plateau between the closer Jagst in the north and the Kocher in the south.
Further down, after the state road from Stein am Kocher to Neudenau (L 720) has crossed it, it begins to deepen very quickly. It makes an S-shaped curve in which Herbolzheim houses soon line the creek on the valley floor. Between the Hungerberg on the left and the upward spur of the mouth on the right, on which the Heriboldesburg ruins stand, the Kreßbach then reaches the valley basin of the Jagst. In the center of the village of Herbolzheim, the twisted Kreßbach finally flows into the Jagst from a pipe from the left and a little above the river bridge there .
Catchment area
The catchment area covers 5.4 km² and is a narrow, westward-running tube around the stream, often only half a kilometer wide and hardly ever one in which the stream flows on the left. Even the only tributary at the hamlet of Kreßbach cannot widen it. Being at 303.9 m above sea level NHN's highest point is on the eastern watershed in the Harthäuser Forest, the northern watershed is often over 280 m above sea level in the upper catchment area . NHN , the southern regularly deeper than this.
The watershed runs in turns in the north against the Jagst , which flows from this at most insignificant streams, such as the Ernsteinbach (1.0 km) in the northeast . Beyond the eastern border in the Harthäuser Forest, the long Buchsbach (7.4 km and 13.9 km²) competes , then on the southern watershed from east to west the upper reaches of the Osterbach of the Kochertürner Merzenbach (4.6 km), the Gießgraben (4.4 km and 4.4 km²), the Kohlbach and the Lobenbach (1.7 km), all of which drain southwards to the Kocher .
The Kreßbach flows in an area of the strip of land between the twin rivers Jagst and Kocher, where the watershed between the two greatly favors the Kocher. Despite its catchment area of only 5.3 km², together with the Büttenbach near Züttlingen (2.6 km and 3.7 km²), the Kreßbach is one of the largest tributaries on the left of the Jagst between the confluence of the more important Sindelbach near Marlach and its own confluence in Jagstfeld .
Viticulture
At the lowest section, where the valley of the Kreßbach is deeply deepened, the slope facing the sun was used for viticulture , as the terraces and stone bars testify. Few vineyards are still cultivated today.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Schmithüsen : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 161 Karlsruhe. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952. → Online map (PDF; 5.1 MB)
- ↑ a b c d e f State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( notes )
literature
- Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, No. 6721 Bad Friedrichshall and No. 6722 Hardthausen am Kocher
- Hans Mattern : The lower Jagsttal. From Dörzbach to the mouth . Baier BPB Verlag, Crailsheim 2005, ISBN 3-929233-27-4 .