Michelbach (cooker)

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Michelbach
Data
Water code DE : 2386552
location Swabian-Franconian forest mountains

Hohenloher and Haller level

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Kocher  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source less than one hundred meters east of the Michelbach an der Bilz fire station
49 ° 4 ′ 14 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 17 ″  E
Source height approx.  367  m above sea level NN
muzzle opposite the old waterworks under the Läublingsforst in the left Kocheraue from the right and east-southeast in the Kocher Coordinates: 49 ° 4 '29 "  N , 9 ° 44' 56"  E 49 ° 4 '29 "  N , 9 ° 44' 56"  E
Mouth height approx.  296  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 71 m
Bottom slope approx. 37 ‰
length 1.9 km
Catchment area 3 km²
Right tributaries Hestenbach
Communities Michelbach an der Bilz

The Michelbach is an approximately 2 km long brook in the municipality of Michelbach an der Bilz in the Schwäbisch Hall district in northern Baden-Württemberg , which flows into the Kocher from the right and east-southeast near the village of Michelbach .

geography

course

The Michelbach arises in the semi-boiler-like eastern bay at the foot of the northern Limpurger Mountains , in the center of which is the village of Michelbach an der Bilz, less than a hundred meters east of the village's fire station at about 367  m above sea level. NN (origin according to LUBW-FG10). In nature, the course of the stream with gaps can be traced another 300 m uphill to the east using a tree-lined ditch, where it is then probably at the edge of the soft settlement at about 392  m above sea level. NN arises (origin after TK25). From the beginning it runs west and is then piped up under the sports area of ​​the village in the middle of the valley. A little later, near the castle , he comes out again and passes the striking building in an already noticeable hollow in the north, then crosses under the northern branch Bretzinger Strasse of the village thoroughfare L 1055. Immediately afterwards he runs under the Murrbahn embankment and reaches beyond at around 345  m above sea level. NN the sewage treatment plant of the village.

Here it leaves all sorts of settlements behind and digs a steep forest blade into the plain of the Kocher erosion bay southwest of Schwäbisch Hall in its 800 meter long lower course . It flows more and more west-north-west and takes up the approximately 0.8 km long Hestenbach from the right a little before the end of the blade , and then after another 200 meters opposite the waterworks in the left Kocheraue from the right and at about 296  m above sea level . NN to flow into the cooker .

Apart from the aforementioned Hestenbach , which arises on the western edge of the Murrbahn opposite an Aussiedlerhof in the Kreuzwiesen and also runs in its narrow lower half in a forest edge , the Michelbach has no tolerably permanent tributaries. However, in the upper valley basin from the east and south along two forest roads rising to the plateau of the Limpurger Mountains, conspicuously wide balustrades run towards the valley axis, which could be heavily washed out old ravines. Under normal circumstances, the side ditches of these paths carry little or no water. A little further down, a pronounced, but almost always dry, clay gorge runs from the starting point of Michelbach's local mountain, Bilz, in front of the western spur of the Kohlhäus, which surrounds the hemisphere in the south, northwest towards the village center to the stream.

Catchment area

The Michelbach has a catchment area of ​​3.0 km² in size, roughly in the shape of a somewhat elongated ellipse that is pointed towards the west at the mouth. From the mouth, the watershed in front of the catchment area of ​​the Kocher tributary Remsbach runs northeast to Hof Aspach, then east to Haghof, from where it climbs in an east-southeast direction the western spur of the Limpurg Mountains, which surrounds the basin in the north of Michelbach, and in the forest Lämmergraben on their Plateau the easternmost and with 500.6  m above sea level. NN second highest point of the catchment area reached. Then it turns to the southwest, here at a short distance follows the coal road ; on the other side the Brühlbach flows to the Fischach in this section . After a small notch in the plateau at the Förster Monument, it rises here to 503.1  m above sea level. NN highest point on the Westsporn Kohlhäu , at which it bends west to the upstream Bilz ( 447  m above sea level ), which for the first time is again in the open. On this section the catchment area of ​​the Adelbach borders in the south , which runs noticeably further up towards the Kocher. From this small panoramic mountain, it then runs northwest between the Hirschfelden settlements on the left and Michelbach on the right, then narrowly between the Hirschfelder Muschelkalkbruch and the Michelbachklinge back to the mouth.

With the exception of 2 - 3 hectares at its eastern tip in the Lämmergraben on the wooded plateau belonging to the Schwäbisch Hall district, the entire catchment area lies on that of Michelbach.

Localities

Only the village of Michelbach an der Bilz lies on the brook , in the catchment area only the Hagenhof residential area belonging to this community.

geology

The course of the Michelbach begins in the Gipskeuper ( Grabfeld Formation ) and reaches a north-south moving fault on the Murrbahn, to the west beyond which Lettenkeuper ( Erfurt Formation ) lies initially - on the Hochscholle - before the stream immediately afterwards its blade in the upper part Muschelkalk digs, into which it also flows.

The highest layer in the catchment area, on the plateau of the Limpurger Mountains in the far east, is the silica sandstone ( Hassberge Formation ), under which the other Mittelkeuper layers quickly follow on the slope down to the Gipskeuper. In this, the base plaster spreads out in some places. The hillside railings mentioned above have clay fillings. Trochitic limestone is mined in the Hirschfelden opencast mine, a little to the left of the Untertalklinge, just outside the catchment area .

An abandoned small quarry on the fire dump east of Michelbach an der Bilz closes reed sandstone in Flutfacies and is the only protected geotope in the catchment area.

nature

Almost the entire Michelbach blade and also the Hestelbach blade are part of the nature reserve "Kochertal between Westheim and Steinbach ...". The heights of the edge of the two blades belong to a landscape protection area that borders this one. Another landscape protection area includes the western slope of the Limpurger Mountains around the basin of the upper Michelbach and jumps in the south over the Bilz to the west. There are three linden trees on the viewpoint at the Spornspitze, which are natural monuments.

Interesting biotopes in the catchment area are the Klingenwälder in the lower Michelbach and Hestenbachtal valleys, two old quarries in the reed sandstone in the hillside forest east of Michelbach, grassland areas a little further to the northwest on the slope and on the flat Bilz knoll, next to some woods.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b According to the contour line image of the geodata viewer.
  2. ↑ According to LUBW-FG10 (data record entry).
  3. ↑ According to LUBW-GEZG (data record entry).
  4. ↑ On the geodata viewer partially entered as He f tenbach , given the surrounding district of Hestenbach , which also occurs there, probably a misspelling of the long S in He ſ tenbach used on local maps .
  5. ^ Geology according to GK50-SFW.
  6. ↑ Geotope description (PDF) of an old sand reed quarry on the fire dump east of Michelbach.
  7. ↑ Protected areas according to LUBW-SCHUTZ.

literature

  • "TK25": Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, No. 6924 Gaildorf
  • "GK50-SFW": Geological map of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park 1: 50,000, published by the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg i. Br. 2001.

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