Kronach (White Main)

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Kronach
Data
Water code DE : 24114
location Germany
River system Rhine
Drain over White Main  → Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source from several source streams west of Warmensteinach
49 ° 59 ′ 47 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 49 ″  E
Source height approx.  830  m  (highest spring)
muzzle near Himmelkron -Kremitz in the White Main Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 42 "  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 29"  E 50 ° 2 ′ 42 "  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 29"  E
Mouth height 345  m
Height difference approx. 485 m
Bottom slope approx. 34 ‰
length 14.3 km
Catchment area 40.78 km²
Communities Goldkronacher Forst , Goldkronach , Bindlach , Bad Berneck , Himmelkron

The Kronach is a 14 km long left and southeast tributary of the White Main in the Bayreuth district .

geography

course

The Kronach rises with a number of source streams in the Goldkronacher Forest forest area ( non-parish area ), about 3 km west of Warmensteinach and flows into the White Main at the Himmelkron district of Kremitz .

It flows through the villages of Goldkronach , Kottersreuth , Neudorf and Kremitz.

Tributaries

  • Kornbach ( left ), 1.7 km, in Goldkronach - Sickenreuth , 502  m above sea level. NHN
  • Saulochbach ( left ), 4.5 km, 6.6 km², east of Goldkronach- Kottersreuth , 394  m above sea level. NHN
  • Kuhbach ( left ), 4.1 km, 9.9 km², northwest of Goldkronach-Kottersreuth, 382  m above sea level. NHN
  • Langelohbach ( left ), 1.8 km, northwest of Goldkronach-Kottersreuth, 374  m above sea level. NHN
  • Benkerbach ( left ), 2.3 km, northwest of Bad Berneck i.Fichtelgebirge - Neudorf , 363  m above sea level. NHN
  • Weiherbach ( right ), 3.2 km, northwest of Bad Berneck-Neudorf, 361  m above sea level. NHN
  • Zitteltalbach ( left ), 2.0 km, east of the Eichelberg , 356  m above sea level. NHN

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Directory of stream and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 3 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB)

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