Mailborn
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| Water code | DE : 2489816 | |
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Taunus
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| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Sulzbach → Nidda → Main → Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | between Kelkheim - Hornau and Bad Soden 50 ° 8 ′ 50 ″ N , 8 ° 28 ′ 34 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 200 m above sea level NHN | |
| muzzle | near Bad Soden in the Sulzbach Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 39 " N , 8 ° 29 ′ 10" E 50 ° 8 ′ 39 " N , 8 ° 29 ′ 10" E |
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| Mouth height | approx. 165 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | approx. 35 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 39 ‰ | |
| length | 900 m | |
The Mailborn is an orographically right and geographically northwestern tributary of the Sulzbach in the area of Bad Soden in the Hessian Main-Taunus district .
geography
course
The Mailborn rises at a height of about 200 m above sea level. NHN at Königsteiner Taunusfuß in the Mailbornswiesen corridor on the edge of a small mixed forest about 1.2 km west of the Kelkheim district of Hornau and about 0.8 km northwest of the spa town of Bad Soden . The Schmiehbach rises almost 1 km west of its source and the Kahlbach rises almost 800 m north-northwest .
It first flows in an east-south-east direction, first through an orchard meadow and then through thick wood, and then forms the small Dickroth pond . To the south of it is the large Dickroth orchard meadow . The brook continues through the mixed forest and then through an orchard meadow.
It now changes to the south-southeast, crosses under Kelkheimer Strasse and finally flows out at an altitude of around 165 m above sea level. NHN on the western edge of Bad Soden from the right into the Sulzbach .
Its 900 m long run ends about 35 meters below its source, so it has a mean bed gradient of 39 ‰.
Catchment area
The catchment area of the Mailborn lies in the Vortaunus and is drained from it via the Sulzbach, the Nidda , the Main and the Rhine to the North Sea.
It borders
- in the north to that of the Kahlbach, which flows into the Sulzbach
- and in the south and west of the Schmiehbach, which drains over the Liederbach into the Main.