Krebsbach (Fallbach)

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Krebsbach
historically: Köbel
The Krebsbach in Bruchköbel

The Krebsbach in Bruchköbel

Data
Water code DE : 247882
location Germany
River system Rhine
Drain over Fallbach  → Kinzig  → Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source northeast of Calbach
50 ° 16 ′ 46 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 26 ″  E
Source height approx.  185  m above sea level NHN
muzzle near Hanau in the Fallbach coordinates: 50 ° 8 '58 "  N , 8 ° 54' 55"  E 50 ° 8 '58 "  N , 8 ° 54' 55"  E
Mouth height approx.  105  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 80 m
Bottom slope approx. 3.2 ‰
length approx. 25 km
The Krebsbach (left) flows into the Fallbach (right)

The Krebsbach (left) flows into the Fallbach (right)

The Krebsbach is an approximately twenty-five kilometer long right tributary of the Fallbach in Hesse .

Surname

An earlier name of the Krebsbach was u. a. "Köbel". Hence the place names Marköbel (Mark an der Köbel) and Bruchköbel (Bruch (old name for mill, but also for swamp or moorland according to Grimm's dictionary) on the Köbel).

geography

course

The Krebsbach rises (position of the Krebsbach source see map ) near Calbach and flows from Eckartshausen via Hammersbach ( Langen-Bergheim and Marköbel ) through Rüdigheim , Bruchköbel to Hanau . The Krebsbach branches into two arms between Bruchköbel and Hanau. The main part flows into the Fallbach shortly afterwards . The other arm of the brook branches out again: the northern part flows as Braubach through Wilhelmsbad , the southern part as Salisbach through Hanau- Kesselstadt and flows into the Kinzig .

Tributaries

Kinzig river system

history

Division of Krebsbach (from back to right) and Salisbach (to front left)

The bifurcations of the four brooks in the north of Hanau are artificial and were only created by humans in modern times. The reason for this lies in the water requirement for the waters of the neighboring Wilhelmsbad spa complex and the Fasanerie, and to the south of today's Maintaler Straße there were lakes for fish farming ( Weiherfeld , An den Güntherteichen ) between Krebsbach and Salisbach.

Originally, the Krebsbach, Salisbach and Fallbach had separate beds for the Kinzig, while the Braubach did not start in Wilhelmsbad, but in its main tributary, the Säulbach coming from Wachenbuchen . In the former course of the Krebs Creek, approximately below the present Elsa Brandström Street, refers nor the Krebsbachweg . In the 20th century, the former estuary was about 50 m above the Kinzigbrücke on the Hanauer Vorstadt. The small difference in altitude and the low flow speeds made it possible to create artificial connections, so that the Krebsbach now drains via Fallbach, Salisbach and Braubach.

nature and environment

Krebsbachaue nature reserve between Nieder- and Oberissigheim with renatured Krebsbach and stork's nest, May 2014.

In 2009 the Krebsbach and the Riedbach tributary in the Rüdigheim area were partially renatured. In addition, the Neuberg-Rüdigheim sewage treatment plant was closed in 2008. The wastewater is now piped via Neuberg-Ravolzhausen to Erlensee and from there into the Kinzig . The Krebsbach in Neuberg-Rüdigheim is only polluted when it rains heavily.

In the downstream area between Ober- and Niederissigheim , a 15-hectare retention area was created in 2010 and the course of the river laid in loops over a length of 550 m. In the area of ​​the city of Hanau, the area where it flows into the Fallbach in den Bruchwiesen was renatured in 2012. This was made possible as a compensatory measure for the construction of the Kinzigbogen shopping center .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  2. ^ Bruchköbel History of the Maintal districts by Peter Heckert
  3. ↑ Kurt Lotz: The history of the earth or geology of the Hessian Kinzig valley. Dausien, Hanau 1983, ISBN 3-7684-6359-1 , pp. 130-132.
  4. ↑ Page of the executing horticultural company [1]
  5. ↑ Climate protection at Krebsbach - www.bruchkoebel.de
  6. ↑ Water is allowed to wind itself again - Frankfurter Rundschau from August 3rd, 2012

literature

  • Lothar Nitsche / Sieglinde Nitsche: Nature reserves in Hessen. Protect - experience - care. Volume 1 - Main-Kinzig-Kreis and City of Hanau. Published by the Naturschutzring Nordhessen eV and the Hessian Society for Ornithology and Nature Conservation eV, Main-Kinzig working group. Cognitio, Niedenstein 2002, ISBN 3-932583-05-1 , p. 112.

Web links

Commons : Krebsbach  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files