Lippach (Danube)

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Lippach
The mouth of the Lippach (right) into the Danube, in the background Mühlheim Castle on the Danube.

The mouth of the Lippach (right) into the Danube, in the background Mühlheim Castle on the Danube.

Data
Water code DE : 11154
location High Swabian Alb

Baden-Württemberg

River system Danube
Drain over Danube  → Black Sea
origin just below the Böttingen sewage treatment plant
48 ° 5 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 3 ″  E
Source height approx.  880  m above sea level NN
muzzle from the left and north-west after crossing Mühlheim an der Donau into the Danube Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '47 "  N , 8 ° 53' 30"  E 48 ° 1 '47 "  N , 8 ° 53' 30"  E
Mouth height approx.  630  m
Height difference approx. 250 m
Bottom slope approx. 23 ‰
length 11.1 km
Catchment area 42.352 km²

The Lippach is a south-east running river on the Hohen Schwabenalb in the Baden-Württemberg district of Tuttlingen , which flows into the Danube from the left after about 11 km .

geography

course

The Lippach arises shortly after the sewage treatment plant of the municipality of Böttingen below the eponymous village next to a small former quarry. The valley basin, however, can be followed from there through the village and then further northwest to near the Albtrauf via Gosheim , there called Längenloch , a further 4.5–5 km upwards. The creek, which already flows in a noticeable valley basin , already runs southeast there, deepens sharply and now runs through a forest valley, in which it soon turns left around the Böttenbühl valley spur and runs through the steeply notched Schäfertal .

Shortly before the Lippachölmühle, the valley floor opens up, and as far as the Lippachmühle, the stream now passes under the village of Mahlstetten on the right edge of the hill . At the Lippachmühle, the K 5800 descends over two serpentines into the valley, where it now closely follows the stream on the right. After that, the stream is briefly the municipality boundary to Kolbingen , the area of ​​which borders the river with a narrow and short valley strip, before it changes entirely to the area of ​​the city of Mühlheim an der Donau . It runs across the valley floor to the local border, then crosses Mühlheim and crosses the Tuttlingen – Inzigkofen railway line . Then the Lippach joins the upper Danube after 11.1 kilometers from the left .

Catchment area

The 42.4 km² catchment area of ​​the Lippach is naturally part of the High Swabian Alb and extends from the Albtrauf over the villages of Gosheim and Denkingen in the Alb foreland, where on the summit of the Hummelsberg at 1002  m above sea level. NN its highest point is about 13.5 km to the southeast to the mouth; across it is nowhere even 5 km wide. On the short north and then the long north-east side it borders almost exclusively on the catchment areas of Unterer Bära , then by its receiving water Bära , which also flows into the Danube a little further down the Lippach. The watershed in the west then extends from the mouth of only towards the dry valleys, the upwardly enter further into the Danube Valley, most recently in the north of the escarpment to the catchment area of Prim , in the opposite direction to the Rhine influx Neckar flows, so here is the hydrologically significant watershed a section of the main European watershed between the North Sea and the Black Sea .

Tributaries

The Lippach only receives inflow from a few sources on the edge of the valley floor and on the valley slope, which do not feed steady courses to the Lippach. Some arid valleys converge, the longer ones below at a rather acute angle.

Individual evidence

LUBW

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

  1. ↑ Height according to the contour line image on the topographic map background layer .
  2. ↑ Height by length-weighted interpolation between two height points marked in blue in the course of the Danube before and after the mouth on the background layer topographic map .
  3. ↑ Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .
  4. ↑ Catchment area according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .

Other evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Huttenlocher : Geographical Land Survey: The natural space units on sheet 178 Sigmaringen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1959. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)

literature

  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as a single sheet
    • for the watercourse: No. 7918 Spaichingen, No. 7919 Mühlheim an der Donau
    • Additionally for the catchment area: No. 7818 Wehingen, No. 7819 Meßstetten

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