Metter (river)

Metter
The Metter near Bietigheim just before the confluence with the Enz
Data
Water code	DE : 23848
location	Baden-Württemberg
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Enz  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source	Almost two kilometers northeast of the center of Diefenbach 49 ° 2 ′ 11 ″  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 24 ″  E
Source height	approx.  395  m above sea level NN   with a longer left source branch.
muzzle	In Bietigheim between the road bridges on Kronenbergstrasse and Stuttgarter Strasse from the left and west into the Enz Coordinates: 48 ° 57 '35 "  N , 9 ° 7' 52"  E 48 ° 57 '35 "  N , 9 ° 7' 52"  O
Mouth height	approx.  180  m above sea level NN
Height difference	approx. 215 m
Bottom slope	approx. 7.6 ‰
length	28.2 km
Catchment area	132.852 km²
Left tributaries	Kirbach

The Metter is a 28.2 km long river in central Baden-Württemberg , which flows into the lowest Enz from the left and west in Bietigheim in the Ludwigsburg district .

Sources and history

The Mettertal is next to those of Kirbach in the north and Schmie in the south, the middle of the three large valleys that divide the Stromberg .

The Metter is being built in the western Stromberg north of the Diefenbach district of the municipality of Sternenfels in the Enzkreis . Its source branch, which is about 1.1 km long, also has the at about 395  m above sea level. NN highest source and rises almost 2 km northeast of the town center on the boundary to Zaberfeld -Leonbronn in the district of Heilbronn , this left source branch is labeled on maps with Metter and initially flows west. A second branch of the spring, which is 0.9 km long, rises a little over 2 km north-northeast of the village center and east of the Altkellerkopf at about 388  m above sea level. NN and runs south-southwest to the union with the name bearer at 320  m above sea level. NN in the wood meadows , shortly before which both streams leave the razor forest of their origins. The combined water runs in the direction of the shorter source stream to the south-south-west, before it touches the outskirts of Diefenbach in its north-east, a less than a hundred meters long tributary from a source runs from the south-west foot of the Rohrberg vineyard slope , the third, possibly attributable to the Metter is, at only 314  m above sea level. NN located.

The Metter now flows in a southerly direction through the open corridor around Diefenbach along the eastern edge of the village and behind it takes its first major tributary from the right and north, the Gießbach . After that it soon turns to the southeast and runs between again wooded slopes. On the right slope, a section of the Mannheim – Stuttgart high-speed line accompanies the stream that passes the Mettenbacher Mühle here. At the end of this section, coming from Maulbronn - Zaisersweiher , the L 1131 enters the valley, which then accompanies the Metter to Sersheim. The Zaisersweiher Bach also flows from this village to the right, and at the same time the Metter crosses over to the Schützinger district of Illingen . Here the landscape changes, the Metter now flows in the direction of the tributary through a wide valley on both sides to the east-southeast. It crosses the village of Schützingen . The downstream Gündelbach on the left bank is already a district of Vaihingen an der Enz in the Ludwigsburg district . The district boundary follows the Streitenbach , which tapers from the left just before the village , with a length of 7.5 km it is its second longest tributary. Behind the village, in the middle of which the shorter Gündelbach flows from the same side, the valley and the Metter slowly turn to the south-east and pass through the Horrheim district , shortly thereafter the municipality and village of Sersheim , where the Metter has now left the low mountain range of the Stromberg and into shallow Neckar basin has entered.

In Sersheim, which is mainly on the left bank, the river turns east and then crosses a long forest area for more than a kilometer across the valley and the accompanying peripheral plains, the corridor here contracts to a narrow accompanying strip of floodplains in which the Talstraße continues as L 1125. A first settlement of Sachsenheim extends to the downward end of the forest in the upper corner of the mouth of the Kirbach, which flows from the left. This largest tributary of the Metter comes very close to its course above this confluence, both in length and in catchment area, and has its source not far from the Metter itself in the western Stromberg . The body of water, which can now be called a river, divides the settlement area of ​​Sachsenheim on its bank into a northern district of Klein- and a larger Großsachsenheim on the right bank and soon crosses over to the boundary of the largest ever touched town of Bietigheim-Bissingen behind the last houses . Here the Metter flows in the south along the village of Metterzimmer , which is bordered in the east by the Altenbach , which tapers to the left , with a length of 5.6 km the third largest tributary, on whose opposite bank the district of Bietigheim begins. There the Metter finally flows into the lower reaches of the Neckar tributary Enz shortly before the Enz bridge of the B 27 from the left and east and after a 28.2 km long run .

Catchment area

The Metter has a catchment area of ​​almost 133 km². It stretches the longest about 23 km south-southeast from the north-western edge of the Diefenbacher Flur towards the forest area around the Kupferhaldenkopf in the westernmost Stromberg to the confluence in Bietigheim-Bissingen. Across from this, it remains less than 8 km wide everywhere. The valleys of the Metter and their large lower tributary Kirbach run on the upper and middle reaches through the low mountain range of the Stromberg and drain a large part of it in the east-southeast direction to the lowest Enz . The lower reaches from Sersheim (Metter) and Hohenhaslach (Kirbach), on the other hand, already belong to the Neckar basin.

Almost all of the larger peaks in the catchment area are reached on its northern edge in the main chain of the Stromberg on the left side of the Kirbach overflow, here the terrain, with the exception of the extreme west, rises almost entirely over 390  m above sea level. NN on. The highest points are here on the Häfnerhaslacher Schlierkopf ( 449.6  m above sea level ) and on the Scheiterhäule ( 472  m above sea level ) north of Ochsenbach . The edge heights in the west and south of the catchment area, however, are mostly below 350  m above sea level. NN , on the highest donkey mountain among them at the east end of the (southern!) Great Fleckenwald west of Horrheim they reach 392.4  m above sea level. NN . The highest mountain in the catchment area is 472.6  m above sea level. NN the Baiselsberg , which is centrally located between Kirbach and Metter valleys , and the small surrounding plateau on the eastern edge of the (northern!) Great Fleckenwald is mostly over 400  m above sea level. NN .

To the north of the Stromberg main chain, the Zaber , which drains east to the Neckar , competes with the Steinbach , which continues to the east of the chain that breaks off , and which also strives to the east, but to the lowest Enz and reaches it in Besigheim . On the rather narrow east side of the catchment area, there are no significant tributaries to the Enz , which has long been a direct competitor in its southeast. In the south-west, beyond the southern watershed, lies the left Enz tributary Schmie (mouth in Vaihingen an der Enz ). While in the north, east and south the competing waters all initially lead to the Neckar, on the other side of the western watershed there are catchment areas of other Rhine tributaries. On the other side of the major part of this section, its second-order tributaries, the Salzach and then the Weißach , which unite in Bretten to form the Saalbach . The Kraichbach rises beyond a fairly short section in the northwest .

Tributaries

The most important tributary of the Metter is the Kirbach, which flows from the left in Sachsenheim am Unterlauf . The Metter -Oberlauf km² a length of 21.831 km and a catchment area of 66.497 at this confluence, while the Kirbach drained km² with its 20.154 km run more 50.811.

Tributaries from the source to the mouth. Lengths of waters regularly according to LUBW-FG10, areas according to LUBW-SG10, catchment areas according to LUBW-GEZG, water heights according to the contour map of the geodata viewer, mountain heights according to numerical information on it. Other sources used are noted.

Origin of the Metter about 1.9 km northeast of the center of Sternenfels - Diefenbach at about 395  m above sea level. NN .

• Shorter source branch from the north, from the right in the wood meadows at 320  m above sea level. NN , 0.884 km. Arises east of the Altkellerkopfes ( 385.6  m above sea level ) at about 388  m above sea level. NN . The Metter flows south.
• Runs through a 0.32 hectare pond at over 315  m above sea level. NN .
• Inflow from a spring at the foot of the Rohrberg vineyard slope , less than 0.1 km.
• Giessbach , from the right immediately below Diefenbach at its sewage treatment plant, 2.002 km and 3.347 km². Arises at the southwest foot of the Altkellerkopfes at about 302  m above sea level. NN .
• Inflow from the western Reut , from the right to about 270  m above sea level. NN , 0.687 km. Arises at about 280  m above sea level. NN . From here the Metter flows southeast.
• To the northeast of Maulbronn- Zaisersweiher, it feeds three ponds of 0.5579 ha, 0.2362 ha and 0.1768 ha.
• Inflow from the northeast, immediately afterwards from the left to 261  m above sea level. NN , 1.157 km. Arises north of the Gleichenberg at about 287  m above sea level. NN .
• At this mouth, on the right-hand side, the exit of the canal to the Mettenbacher Mühle.
• On the left the Metter feeds two ponds of 0.3221 ha and 0.1829 ha.
• Backflow of the canal, from the right to the Mettenbacher Mühle, 0.54 km.
• Zaisersweiher Bach , below the road bridge of the L 1131 Zaisersweiher - Illingen - Schützingen at about 252  m above sea level. NN , 3.45 km and 6.311 km². Arises as an outflow of the 0.5419 hectare and 286  m above sea level. NN high Reutsee, west-northwest of Zaisersweiher on the edge of the forest. After the mouth, the Metter flows east-south-east in the direction of its tributary.
• Inflow from the Wasenwald , immediately afterwards from the right, 1.054 km. Two-branch origin with both sources at about 280  m above sea level. NN .
• Meisenbach , from the left onto the Schützinger Laiswiesen at about 250  m above sea level. NN , 0.96 km and 1.078 km². Arises east of the Meisenbachhof at the resting place at about 275  m above sea level. NN .
• Inflow from the north-west portal of the Burgberg tunnel of the Mannheim – Stuttgart high-speed line , from the right in Schützingen opposite the fire station at around 247  m , 0.814 km. Arises at about 285  m above sea level. NN .
• Bräuningsbach , from the right in Schützingen between the lower footbridge and the valley crossing to the village at about 245  m above sea level. NN , 1.018 km and 0.57 km². Arises southwest of Schützingen on the edge of the forest to the Flurgewann Bräuningsbach at about 283  m above sea level. NN .
• Inflow from the western Günderriß , from the right between Schützingen and sewage treatment plant at about 244  m above sea level. NN , 1.176 km. Arises next to the K 4510 Schützingen – Illingen at about 303  m above sea level. NN .
• Inflow through the wall , from the right immediately after the sewage treatment plant at about 241  m above sea level. NN , 1.155 km. Arises in the Günderriß at about 302  m above sea level. NN .
• Inflow from the valley basin, from the right just before the border with the Ludwigsburg district at about 237  m above sea level. NN , 0.729 km. Arises at about 243  m above sea level. NN in the eastern wall .
• Inflow from western Buchrain , from the right at the district boundary, 0.619 km. Arises at about 270  m above sea level. NN .
• Streitenbach , from the left at Vaihingen - Gündelbacher Teufelsbuckel at 235.9  m , 7.517 km and 7.063 km². Arises in the Sargenwald northeast of Diefenbach at a little over 390  m above sea level. NN .
• Gündelbach , from the left in Gündelbach between Lorenzenstrasse and Metterstrasse at about 234  m above sea level. NN , 3.844 km. Arises south of Häfnerhaslach on the Streichert at about 373  m above sea level. NN .
• Sailesgraben , from the right immediately afterwards at the Metterbrücke on Metterstrasse, 1.1 km. Arises in Buchenrain at about 305  m above sea level. NN .
• Two small ponds to the left of the course in the Au below the hilltop Muschenloch at about 230  m above sea level. NN , 0.0267 ha and 0.0482 ha.
• Exit of the Horrheimer Mühlbach to the left immediately afterwards. This branch runs on the left edge of the floodplain, which becomes very wide.
• Steinbach , from the left at the Metterbrücke of the L 1131 on the northern edge of the forest around the Rotenberg ( 305  m above sea level ) at about 227  m above sea level. NN , 3.562 km and 4.557 km². Arises in Spitzgarn at about 367  m above sea level. NN . Is passed under shortly before the mouth of the Mühlbach .
• Return of the Horrheimer Mühlbach , from the left in front of the Metterbrücke of Pforzheimer Straße in Horrheim at about 219  m above sea level. NN , 2.656 km.
• Horrheimer Graben , from the left at the bridge of Horrheimer Wiesentalstraße at about 218  m above sea level. NN , 1,864 km. Arises in the west of the Kalkäcker at about 270  m above sea level. NN . Ditch accompanying the dirt road.
• Inflow, from the right on the southeastern edge of the Horrheim development, 1.458 km. Arises south of the intersection of L 1106 and L 1131 at about 249  m above sea level. NN .
• Inflow, from the left to Horrheim before the Donnersberg ( 260.9  m above sea level ) at about 217  m above sea level. NN , 1.337 km. Arises as a left floodplain by leaving the Metter at the bridge of Pforzheimer Strasse in Horrheim. From the reflux, the Metter runs southeast.
• Inflow through the Ditzinger Busch , from the right just before the field path bridge at the beginning of the Sersheimer Rohrwiesen at about 216  m above sea level. NN , 3.047 km. Arises at the eastern foot of the Ensinger Eselsberg ( 392.4  m above sea level ) at about 300  m above sea level. NN .
• Exit on the left side of the canal to Fesslermühle in Sersheim .
• Aischbach , from the right into the Metter itself at a little over 210  m above sea level. NN , 2.234 km and 4.326 km². From Sersheim the Metter runs east.
• Return of the canal to the Fesslermühle, 0.197 km.
• Kirbach , from the left in Sachsenheim after the Metterbrücke on Sersheimer Strasse at 201.3  m above sea level. NN , 20.154 km and 50.811 km². Rises as Krebsbach about 1.7 km east of the center of Sternenfels and thus about 1 km north of the official origin of the Metter at about 386  m above sea level. NN .
• Altenbach , from the left between the district of Metterzimmer and the city of Bietigheim-Bissingen itself at about 187  m above sea level. NN , 5.601 km and 5.816 km². Arises as a ditch in the Löchgauer Gewann See at about 262.5  m above sea level. NN , the northern continuation of which drains in the opposite direction to the Steinbach which flows into the Enz near Besigheim .

The mouth of the Metter in Bietigheim-Bissingen between the river bridges of Kronenbergstraße and Stuttgarter Straße ( B 27 ) at about 180  m above sea level. NN from the left and west into the Enz flowing north here .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to the contour line image on the background map of the geodata viewer.
2. ↑ Information 180.8 in blue with a blue triangle in height in the Enz about 100 m above the mouth on the geodata viewer.
3. ↑ According to LUBW-FG10 (data record entry).
4. ↑ Sum of the sub-catchment areas according to LUBW-GEZG (data record entries).
5. ↑ Labeling in blue at the mouth with a blue point at the confluence on the geodata viewer.
6. ↑ Labeling in black on the geodata viewer.
7. ↑ Measured on the geodata viewer.
8. ↑ Labeling in blue at the mouth on the geodata viewer.
9. ↑ Labeling in blue at the mouth with a blue triangle at the confluence on the geodata viewer.
10. ↑ First area measured according to LUBW-SG10, second measured on geodata viewer.
11. ↑ Interpolated between neighboring elevations in blue on the river on the geodata viewer.

literature

"TK25": Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North, as single sheet No. 6918 Bretten, No. 6919 Güglingen, No. 6920 Brackenheim, No. 7018 Pforzheim North, No. 7019 Mühlacker, No. 7020 Bietigheim-Bissingen

Web links

Geoportal Baden-Württemberg ( information ), especially with the partial maps / layers

• the State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg (LUBW)
  • "LUBW-FG10": River 1: 10,000
  • "LUBW-SG10": Standing water 1: 10,000
  • "LUBW-GEZG": water catchment areas