Mörsdorfer Bach
Mörsdorfer Bach | ||
icy natural level on the Mörsdorfer Bach |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ↑ a b GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )