Lengelbach

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Lengelbach / Lengel
Stiedenbach (upper course / middle course)
The Lengelbach just before it flows into the Eder

The Lengelbach just before it flows into the Eder

Data
Water code DE : 42832
location District of Waldeck-Frankenberg , Hesse ( Germany )
River system Weser
Drain over Eder  → Fulda  → Weser  → North Sea
source in the Burgwald near Haubern
51 ° 2 ′ 35 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 31 ″  E
Source height approx.  404  m above sea level NHN
muzzle far below Allendorf near
Hessenstein Castle in the Eder coordinates: 51 ° 7 '2 "  N , 8 ° 52' 35"  E 51 ° 7 '2 "  N , 8 ° 52' 35"  E
Mouth height approx.  255  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 149 m
Bottom slope approx. 13 ‰
length approx. 11.4 km
Catchment area 25.848 km²
Discharge  (extrapolated)
A Eo : 25.848 km²
at the mouth 		MNQ 1961/1990
MQ 1961/1990
Mq 1961/1990
 		18 l / s
210 l / s
8.1 l / (s km²)
Left tributaries small streams
Right tributaries Treisbach, Bach vom Pferdeberg
(details: see below )
Small towns Frankenberg , Frankenau

The Lengelbach , also called Lengel and also called Stiedenbach in the upper and middle reaches , is an approximately 11.4 km long, south-southeast and orographically right tributary of the Eder in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse .

course

The Lengelbach rises in the northern foothills of the Burgwald in the Frankenberger Oberland on the Geismarer Platte . Its source is around 1 km south-southwest of Haubern , a district of Frankenberg , at around 404  m above sea level. NHN .

Initially, the stream runs north-east in an agricultural area to and through Haubern and below the former Haubernsche Mühle in a north direction to and through the Frankenau district of Dainrode , where it crosses under the federal road 253 . There reaching rivers the natural park Keller Edersee in which it north-west to and through the Franken Auer district Allendorf runs, for the time being to the former Supreme mill .

After that, the Lengelbach happened close in right and seamed by forest valley towards north-northeast in the forest Truth belonging Hesse Wald , the former cake mill and the Martin Mountain located Lengelhof with the former Lengelmühle where the Treisbach opens. Below it, it runs roughly in a north-westerly direction, first roughly along the border between the Hessenstein Forest and the Frankenauer Flur and then to that of the Lotheimer Täler valleys , both of which are part of the Niederkellerwald natural area . Then the stream flows in the Lengelbachtal nature reserve past the former bear and chicken mill .

Information sign in the Lengelbachtal

Then the Lengelbach flows under the federal road 252 , which forms the border of the nature park and nature reserve , about 650 m west-southwest of Hessenstein Castle at a height of about 255  m in the Fulda tributary Eder coming from about the south-west ; Opposite its mouth to the west, and thus beyond the Eder, runs the Untere Edertalbahn .

Catchment area and tributaries

The catchment area of the Lengelbach is 25.848 km². Its tributaries include, with orographic allocation (l = left-hand side, r = right-hand side) , length of water, mouth location with Lengel stream kilometers and catchment area size (viewed downstream) :

  • Treisbach (r; 3 km), below Allendorf at Lengelhof (at km 4.4), 2.933 km²
  • Nebenbach from the horse mountain in Dainrode (r; 2.6 km), near Dainrode (near km 7.95), 2.662 km²

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b c d e Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  3. ↑ Water profile and program of measures 42832.1 ( Memento from January 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) ( Notes ) → Overview of all Hessian river systems (PDF, 1.7 MB) Lengelbach
  4. ↑ The MNQ values ​​cover the 20-year period 1979/1998.

Web links

Commons : Lengelbachtal nature reserve  - collection of images, videos and audio files