Metzenbach (Heinrichsbach)

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Metzenbach
The Metzenbach just before the confluence

The Metzenbach just before the confluence

Data
location Spessart

Bavaria

River system Rhine
Drain over Heinrichsbach  → Wachenbach  → Hafenlohr  → Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source in the Metzenbrunnen on Geiersberg
49 ° 54 ′ 11 ″  N , 9 ° 26 ′ 20 ″  E
Source height 457  m above sea level NHN
confluence with the Weihersbach to Heinrichsbach Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 5 ″  E 49 ° 54 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 5 ″  E
Mouth height 373  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 84 m
Bottom slope 38 ‰
length 2.2 km
Catchment area 2.5 km²

The Metzenbach is the right source brook of the Heinrichsbach in the Main-Spessart district in the Bavarian Spessart .

geography

course

The Metzenbrunnen

The Metzenbach rises in the Metzenbrunnen at 457  m above sea level. NN at Geiersberg (586 m), the highest point in the Spessart. The source is made for the drinking water supply and is located next to a pumping station on the edge of the forest . The Metzenbach flows in the Bischbrunn Forest in an easterly direction, through some small ponds , past the Raumerhütte and joins the Weihersbach in the Weihersgrund nature reserve to form the Heinrichsbach .

The historical name of the Metzenbrunnen is Heinrichsbrunnen .

Hafenlohr river system

See also

Web links

Commons : Metzenbach (Heinrichsbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  2. ^ Original position sheet of land surveying in Bavaria: Esselbach and surroundings in 1850