Maßholdergraben

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Maßholdergraben
Data
Water code DE : 118528
location Foreland of the southern Franconian Alb

Bavaria ,

River system Danube
Drain over Bruckbach (Wörnitz)  → Wörnitz  → Danube  → Black Sea
source near Heidenheim - Hohentrüdingen
48 ° 59 ′ 57 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 44 ″  E
Source height approx.  515  m above sea level NN
muzzle near Westheim in den Bruckbach coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 28 "  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 30"  E 49 ° 0 ′ 28 "  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 30"  E
Mouth height approx.  443  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 72 m
Bottom slope approx. 37 ‰
length 2 km
Catchment area 1.68 km²

The Maßholdergraben is an approximately two-kilometer-long left tributary of the central Bruckbach in front of Westheim in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia .

geography

course

The Maßholdergraben rises at a height of 515  m above sea level. NN on the slope west of Hohentrüdingen not far from a sewage treatment plant and initially flows approximately to the west. At the middle course, the water in the east of Westheim takes on an apparently nameless upper course of about the same length, which approaches from the left and southeast, then it flows northwest. The Maßholdergraben opens after a run of about 2.0 km at an altitude of 443  m above sea level. NN northeast of Westheim near the federal highway 466 from the left into the Bruckbach. The Arnbach and the Holzwiesengraben flow not far .

Catchment area

The Maßholdergraben drains around 1.6 km² of the natural area foreland of the southern Franconian Jura approximately northwest of the Wörnitz tributary of the Bruckbach. Its catchment area borders in the north on that of the Arnbach , which flows into the Bruckbach a few steps earlier , while behind the eastern watershed the more important "western" Rohrach on a south course further down into the Wörnitz collects its smaller tributaries. Across a ridge in the south of the above-mentioned left Maßholdergraben upper course, the Lothbach finally also runs to the downward Wörnitz.

The two upper reaches both arise on the western slope of the Braunjura hills in the east of the catchment area around the Hohentrüdingen standing on its eaves, where the steeper slopes are covered by forest. His west, on the other hand, lies in the flatter, completely open and mostly arable Black Jurassic landscape. This division corresponds roughly to the political one with the area share of the market Heidenheim in the east and that of the community Westheim in the west.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Topographic Maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
  2. ↑ a b Length and catchment area according to the list of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Danube river area from source to Lech, page 76 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 2.3 MB) (number of pages may change)
  3. ^ Franz Tichy: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 163 Nuremberg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1973. →  Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
  4. ↑ Geology according to the layer geological map 1: 500,000 on: BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )

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