Möhrenbach (Altmühl)

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Möhrenbach
The Möhrenbach at the Möhren railway bridge

The Möhrenbach at the Möhren railway bridge

Data
Water code DE : 13834
location Southern Franconian Alb

Bavaria

River system Danube
Drain over Altmühl  → Danube  → Black Sea
source one and a half kilometers west of Otting in the forest
48 ° 52 ′ 1 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 36 ″  E
Source height approx.  509  m above sea level NHN
muzzle on the southern edge of Treuchtlingen from the right and southwest in the Altmühl coordinates: 48 ° 56 '59 "  N , 10 ° 54' 50"  E 48 ° 56 '59 "  N , 10 ° 54' 50"  E
Mouth height below  408  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 101 m
Bottom slope approx. 5.3 ‰
length around 19.1 km
Catchment area 128.2 km²

The Möhrenbach is a brook in the southern Franconian Jura , which flows into the Altmühl from the right after about 19 km to the northeast near Treuchtlingen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district .

geography

course

The Möhrenbach arises one and a half kilometers west-southwest of Otting in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries in the southern Mähderholz at around 509  m above sea level. NN . It flows quite steadily from the source to the mouth in a northeasterly direction.

Immediately stepping into the corridor, the Möhrenbach follows a field path to Otting, takes on the Krummbach at its edge and then follows the main road, partly twisted. Behind the village, the Hentelgraben reaches it from the left , and after the train station shared with Weilheim on the Donauwörth – Treuchtlingen railway line , which runs from here to the mouth of the valley, the Ortigraben again from this side . At Weilheim he starts his first loop to the northwest and enters his Meander Valley , where he also lies in loops.

Up until now it flowed in a hollow that was barely noticeable at the beginning and not very deep in the end, but now it moves in a deeply dug valley that is wooded on the slopes and initially has a narrow bottom. After the first loop from the right, the Tränkgraben runs through a bay that extends down into the valley . Beyond the district boundary to the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district , which is also the city boundary of Treuchtlingen , a field island begins around Gundelsheim ; the village lies in a briefly flatter valley, after it flows from the left the Westenbrunnenbach , the longest tributary of the Möhrenbach ever. After another section with steep, wooded slopes, state road 2217 enters the valley from the right, through the converging side valley of the Brüllgraben , with the inlet of which the valley floor becomes noticeably wider; the road follows the stream to the mouth.

Then the Obere Möhrenbachbrücke of the Donauwörth – Treuchtlingen railway spans across the valley , the stream then passes Möhren , which is mostly on the left slope, and turns around the Hirschberg ( 528.8  m above sea level ) in the southeast in an easterly direction. On the lower section of the valley, which then follows, there are four mills on its bank, the Fuchsmühle , the Mattenmühle , the Schürmühle , after which the railway line changes back to the left side of the valley, and the Dickmühle ; on the second it reaches its last major tributary from the right, the Stegelgraben .

The stream then turns back in its preferred direction of flow, enters the Altmühl floodplain, passes the Sägmühle and the Schmarrmühle and then flows a little south of Treuchtlingen and opposite the Teufelskanzel after a run of around 19 km to around 408  m above sea level NN from the right into the south-east flowing Altmühl .

Tributaries

List of tributaries and RiverIcon-SmallLake.svglakes from source to mouth. With water length, lake area, catchment area and altitude. Other sources for the information are noted.

Origin of the Möhrenbach west-southwest of Otting in the southern Mähderholz at about 509  m above sea level. NN .

  • Krummbach , from the right on the southwestern outskirts of Otting , approx. 0.9 km. Builds next to the railway line south of here.
  • (Graben), from the left on Wemdinger Straße in the village of Otting, approx. 1.5 km. Runs constantly next to Kreisstraße 18 from Wemding.
  • (Inflow), from the left in the western village, approx. 1.6 km. Arises on an eastern bay in Burgschlag and runs through the castle pond and another pond on Otting's Schlossstrasse.
  • Gullenbach , from the right last verdolt in the center of Otting, approx. 1.5 km. Arises on the edge of a clearing in Kohlbattenschlag .
  • Hentelgraben , from the left between Otting and Otting-Weilheim train station, approx. 2.3 km. Made at the Henthalhof
  • Bumbenhöllgraben , from the right before the train station, approx. 1.8 km. Developed on a south-eastern bay at the Lindau forest area .
  • Ortigraben , from the left between the train station and Weilheim , approx. 1.3 km. Arises between Herren- and Buchschlag near the Keltenschanze.
  • Tränkgraben , from the right below Weilheim after the railway embankment crossing the valley, approx. 1.2 km. Originates in the Auewiesen northwest of Rehau .
  • Westenbrunnenbach , from left to Gundelsheim , 7.8 km and 59.5 km². Highest and furthest source on the Steppberg south of Wolferstadt .
    The Möhrenbach itself is 10.2 km long here, but only has a 28.2 km² sub-catchment area.
  • Brüllgraben , from the right in front of the railway bridge south of Möhren , 6.1 km and 19.8 km². The upper course of the Nachtweidegraben , which has been stable for the longest time, is emerging south of Büttelbronn. The approximately one kilometer longer left upper course Schmalzgraben is created south of Rehau, but its lower course is a dry valley.
  • Stegelgraben , from the right at the Treuchtlinger Mattenmühle , approx. 2.0 km.

Mouth of the Möhrenbach at the Treuchtlinger sewage treatment plant opposite the Teufelskanzel at about 408  m above sea level. NHN from the right and southwest into the Altmühl . The Möhrenbach is 19.1 km long and has an above-ground catchment area of ​​128.2 km².

Localities

At the run in the direction of flow:

See also

BayernAtlas ("BA")

Official online waterway map with a suitable section and the layers used here: Course and catchment area of ​​the Möhrenbach
General introduction without default settings and layers: BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )

  1. ↑ a b c Height requested on the background layer Official map (right click).
  2. ↑ Length measured on the official map background layer .
  3. ↑ The area of ​​the lake measured on the official map background layer .
  4. ↑ Catchment area measured on the official map background layer .

Water directory Bavaria ("GV")

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Length according to: List of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Lech to Naab river area, page 106 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 2.9 MB) and the following page (the number of pages may change. )
  2. ↑ a b c d catchment area according to: List of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Lech to Naab river area, page 106 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 2.9 MB) and the following page (number of pages may change.)

Others

  1. ↑ Ralph Jätzold: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 172 Nördlingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 3.9 MB)

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