Lochau (Truppach)

	Lochau
	The Lochau (flowing from the front left to the back) is reinforced by the brook from the Weihersbrunnen (from the right)
	Data
Water code	DE : 242626
location	Franconian Switzerland Bavaria District of Kulmbach Thurnau market ; ; Bayreuth district City of Hollfeld ; Community Plankenfels ; ;
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Truppach → Wiesent → Regnitz → Main → Rhine → North Sea
source	east of Lochau ; 49 ° 57 ′ 54 ″ N , 11 ° 25 ′ 14 ″ E
Source height	approx. 510 m above sea level NHN
muzzle	in Plankenfels in the Truppach coordinates: 49 ° 53 '6 " N , 11 ° 20' 39" E 49 ° 53 '6 " N , 11 ° 20' 39" E;
Mouth height	approx. 363 m above sea level NHN
Height difference	approx. 147 m
Bottom slope	approx. 8.6 ‰
length	17.1 km
Catchment area	41.65 km²

The Lochau is a right tributary of the Truppach in Franconian Switzerland in Upper Franconia .

geography

course

The Lochau rises east of Lochau . It flows through the town in a westerly direction, takes up the book moat and bends to the southwest. Before Alladorf , the Lochau is reinforced by the significantly larger outflow of the Weihersbrunnen . It continues through the villages of Trumsdorf , Schönfeld and Wohnsdorf. The Lochau flows into the Truppach in the Hammer district of Plankenfels .

Tributaries

Book moat (right)
(Outflow of the pond fountain ) (right)
(Outflow of the hunter fountain ) (left)
Erbach (right)

literature

Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Lochau . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB 790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 384-385 ( digitized version ).

Erich Freiherr von Guttenberg : Land and city district of Kulmbach (= historical book of place names of Bavaria, Upper Franconia . Volume 1 ). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1952, DNB 451738918 , p. 100 .

Web links

Commons : Lochau - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
↑ ^a ^b List of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 63 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB)

Look to the valley of Lochau from Postal Plankenstein from

[DE-BY_BV-1] BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )

[DE-BY_GV2463-2] List of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 63 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB)