Mörsdorfer Bach

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Mörsdorfer Bach
icy natural level on the Mörsdorfer Bach

icy natural level on the Mörsdorfer Bach

Data
Water code DE : 26946
location Hunsrück , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany
River system Rhine
Drain over Flaumbach  → Moselle  → Rhine  → North Sea
source At Balduinseck Castle
50 ° 4 ′ 36 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 43 ″  E
Source height 274  m above sea level NHN
muzzle At Maria Engelport Monastery in Flaumbach Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 12 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 20 ″  E 50 ° 7 ′ 12 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 20 ″  E
Mouth height 149  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 125 m
Bottom slope 6.2 ‰
length 20.1 km (with Schumbach )
Catchment area 60.614 km²

The Mörsdorfer Bach is one of the small rivers in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate that flow from the Hunsrück towards the Moselle .

geography

The Mörsdorfer Bach is created at the Balduinseck Castle by the confluence of the Wohnrother Bach and the Schumbach . It then flows around ten kilometers through a lonely valley with no road access. At the Maria Engelport monastery , the Mörsdorfer Bach flows into the Flaumbach from the right .

Flora and fauna

The valley is very narrow. Slopes wooded with oak and hornbeam border directly on the stream. The Mörsdorfer Bach partly flows through extensively used valley meadows. Willows and alders are mainly found on the bank , which are hardly used economically today.

Gray herons and mallards are the most common water birds in the Bachtal, and the dipper and kingfisher also have their habitat on the fast-flowing water.

Since the narrowness of the valley ensures that there is always high humidity even in summer, the valley of the Mörsdorfer Bach is characterized by a species-rich moss flora . So dense moss lawns grow both on the flanks of the slate rocks and epiphytically on tree trunks and up to the crown area.

tourism

The Mörsdorfer Bachtal is part of the Saar-Hunsrück climb (stages 19 and 20). The valley near Mörsdorf is crossed by the Geierlay suspension rope bridge, the second longest bridge of its kind in Germany north of the Alps, which connects the village with Sosberg and its own hiking trails at almost 100 meters above sea level .

Web links

Commons : Mörsdorfer Bach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  2. ↑ a b GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )