Mühlbach (Rhine, Scherzheim)

Mühlbach Local names: Plauelbach, Diersheimer Mühlbach, Harschgrünerbach
The Mühlbach in Freistett
Data
Water code	DE : 23534
location	Offenburg Rhine plain Kinzig-Schutter lowland Kinzig lowland Rheinbischofsheimer plate Rheinaue Freistetter Rheinaue Baden-Württemberg Ortenau district Gde. Willstätt , City of Kehl City of Rheinau Rastatt district City of Lichtenau
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Rhine  → North Sea
source	Junction from the Alte Kinzig in Willstätt as Plauelbach 48 ° 32 '24 "  N , 7 ° 53" 43 "  E
Source height	approx.  144  m above sea level NN
muzzle	near Helmlingen / Lichtenau together with the Rench in the Upper Rhine Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '19 "  N , 7 ° 57' 59"  E 48 ° 43 '19 "  N , 7 ° 57' 59"  E
Mouth height	approx.  121  m above sea level NN
Height difference	approx. 23 m
Bottom slope	approx. 0.84 ‰
length	27.3 km
Left tributaries	Hegenort, Mühlbach, Weißenbach, Katzenbach, Kammbach
Right tributaries	Horbengraben, Rinnbach, Korberggraben, Banngraben, Holchenbach , Galgenbach
The Mühlbach in the Mittelgrund Helmlingen nature reserve

The Mühlbach is a 27 km long stream in the Ortenau district and most recently in the Rastatt district in Baden-Württemberg . Under the name Plauelbach in Willstätt , it branches off from the short Kinzig branch there, Alte Kinzig. At the beginning, the brook runs approximately northwest and later north-northeast, there also briefly under the names Diersheimer Mühlbach and Harschgrünerbach , through the Upper Rhine Plain . Near Scherzheim in the municipality of Lichtenau , the last named Mühlbach flows into the Rhine at the mouth of the Rench .

geography

The Mühlbach begins in the Ortenaukreis at the mill in Willstätt from a junction from the Kinzigarm Alte Kinzig at an altitude of about 144  m above sea level. NN . Initially it flows under the name Plauelbach northwest through Willstätt, Odelshofen and Kork . After Kork, the Hegenort joins from the left.

In the vicinity of Bodersweier the Mühlbach changes its direction of flow to the north and from the left another Mühlbach, which connects it with the approximately 14 km long Gießelbach, runs into it. At Leutesheim , the Leutesheimer Ablassgraben, which shortly afterwards flows into the Horbergraben, branches off from the Mühlbach. A few meters further, the Horbergraben itself meets the Mühlbach. In addition, the Mühlbach changes its flow direction here in a north-northeast direction. At Honau it crosses the Holergraben, the Rinnbach flows into it from the right and the Diersheimer Ablassgraben, which, like the Mühlbach before, connects it with the Gießelbach, branches off to the left.

When flowing through Diersheim , the flowing water is called for a small section Diersheimer Mühlbach. After he left the place, he was called Harschgrünerbach; the trench joins from the right. Even if the Holchenbach also flows into it from the right of Rheinbischofsheim , the Mühlbach takes on its real name up to its mouth. At Freistett , when it crosses under the state road 87, it splits for about 300 m. In the village of Freistett, the Galgenbach, which branches off from the Holchenbach in Rheinbischofsheim, meets him from the right. After Freistett, the Lower Rhine Canal branches off from the Mühlbach. Shortly afterwards it flows through an alluvial forest , where it takes on a much wilder shape with rapid currents.

Later, the mill stream parallel to the Rhine at 2 km flow distance, whereby it the to the city Rheinau belonging Helmlingen happens northwest and leaves the Ortenaukreis. Then it flows within the Rastatt district in the municipality of Lichtenau near the Scherzheim district next to the Rench and without a peninsula separating the two waters into the Upper Rhine .

Individual evidence

LUBW

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

1. ↑ ^{a b} Height according to the contour line image on the topographic map background layer .
2. ↑ Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .

Other evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Fischer: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 169 Rastatt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.4 MB)

Web links

• Map of the course and catchment area of ​​the Mühlbach on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
• Map of the Mühlbach from source to mouth on OpenStreetMap