Morgenbach (Rhine)
| Morgenbach | ||
 Morgenbach near Trechtingshausen |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | EN : 2554 | |
| location |
Soonwald
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| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | southeast of the Salzkopf in the Binger Forest 49 ° 59 ′ 28 ″ N , 7 ° 47 ′ 38 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 445 m above sea level NN | |
| muzzle | south of Trechtingshausen from the left into the Rhine Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 17 ″ N , 7 ° 51 ′ 25 ″ E 50 ° 0 ′ 17 ″ N , 7 ° 51 ′ 25 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | approx. 84 m above sea level NN | |
| Height difference | approx. 361 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 53 ‰ | |
| length | 6.9 km | |
| Catchment area | 14.886 km² | |
The Morgenbach is an approximately 7.6 km long left tributary of the Rhine in Rhineland-Palatinate , it flows mainly in an easterly and finally in a northerly direction.
Name and etymology
Recorded forms of name are 966 Murga (a copy from the 13th century) and 1296 morghen , then 1502 [die] morgenbach and 1812 [die] Morgenbach . The older forms of the name without the suffix -bach come from a Celtic root Morgjā with the approximate meaning 'land / region / waters on a border'. The name belongs to the family of Murg names, which all also come from Murga from Morgjā . The vowel change / u /> / o / is dialect, the insertion of the additional syllable / en / in the compound with -bach is due to the derivation of a weakly declined Middle High German form. This composition probably served to clarify the meaning, whose reference to water was no longer understood, similar to whale > whale . The female gender of the current name is probably explained by the fact that the stream is located in a region where the female gender is common for Bach itself.
Folk etymological explanations of the name from "Muren" or "flowing towards morning" are wrong. The Morgenbach also labels the map of the Binger Forest by Andreas Trauttner from 1773 with a feminine article.
geography
The brook arises in the Binger Stadtwald in the southeastern Hunsrück about 700 meters east-southeast of the Salzkopf at about 540 m above sea level. NN below the common course of the Soonwaldsteig, Rheinhöhenweg and the European long-distance hiking trail E8 in a clearing. It initially runs south, then after crossing the Soonwaldsteig twice, it runs east-southeast and begins a slow curve to the northeast. After about 3.6 kilometers and near the southernmost point of its course, it takes up the Hasselbach , its first major tributary, on the left slope opposite the Jägerhaus children's recreation home . A little later, its forest valley bends to the north and becomes narrow and cliff-rich, as it now, like the Rhine, which runs parallel here, intersects the rock structures of the Rhenish Slate Mountains with clay slate and much more resistant Grauwacke banks and quartzite corridors almost at right angles. The changing rock strength led to the formation of the four Morgenbach waterfalls and the numerous towering rock formations in the western valley slopes. On this northward section of the valley, the longest tributary Aderbach flows from the left opposite the Ohligsberg . After a right bend, the valley at Reichenstein Castle opens suddenly to the Middle Rhine Valley and the stream flows into the Rhine a quarter of a kilometer downstream from the Trechtinghausen Clement Chapel .
Flora and fauna
The Morgenbachtal is almost completely forested and has coppice forest , especially on the rocky slopes on the lower reaches . Willows and alders are mainly found on the bank . Gray herons and mallards are the most common water birds in the Bachtal.
Touristic
The Morgenbachtal is considered to be one of the most beautiful side valleys of the Rhine. A formerly well-developed hiking trail accompanied the stream in the lower and middle reaches and led from the Rhine on the one hand to the height of the Hunsrück near Waldalgesheim and on the other to the Schweizerhaus high above the Rhine valley. After a storm in 2016, the route was closed for a long time, but has now been restored with funds from the city, state and federal government.
The rocky slopes of the lower reaches of the left are among the most beautiful and difficult climbing areas in Rhineland-Palatinate. The three smaller waterfalls are easily accessible via the hiking trail, only the largest is currently only audible (on closed private property, former restaurant).
literature
- Albrecht Greule : names of waters. (= Historical Atlas of the Rhineland. Supplement X / 3). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1345-4 .
- Herbert Müller: The Binger Forest. Bingen 1986, OCLC 46084325 .
- Nils Ohl: Relief, soil and land use history in the Morgenbachtal near Trechtingshausen . Thesis . Mainz 2011 ( dropbox.com [PDF; 53.5 MB ; accessed on August 12, 2016]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ↑ a b GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )
- ↑ Topographic map 1: 25,000
- ↑ a b Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority
- ↑ Etymology according to: Albrecht Greule , Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch , De Gruyter , Berlin, 2014, p. 358.
- ↑ Distribution of the "Bach" feminina according to Grimm's dictionary , article Bach : from Lorraine via the Middle Rhine, the Wetterau, Hesse, Thuringia to Silesia. Female Bach names can also be found outside this range in the German-speaking area.
- ↑ H. Müller: The Binger forest. 1986, p. 259.
- ↑ See the diploma thesis by N. Ohls listed under → Literature , p. 48.
- ↑ Christine Tscherner:Path through Morgenbachtal also closed for the fourth season?( Memento from March 5, 2020 in the Internet Archive ) Allgemeine Zeitung from November 3, 2018
- ^ Morgenbach Homepage City of Bingen
