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 The Obere Argen in the Eistobel |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | EN : 2152 | |
| location | Germany | |
| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Argen → Lake Constance → Rhine → North Sea | |
| origin | The confluence of the left Seelesgraben and the right Schwarzenbach at the Weißenbachmühle in Oberstaufen 47 ° 34 ′ 58 ″ N , 10 ° 1 ′ 21 ″ E |
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| Source height | 770 m above sea level NHN | |
| muzzle | near Neuravensburg confluence with the Untere Argen zur Argen coming from the right Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '17 " N , 9 ° 44' 41" E 47 ° 39 '17 " N , 9 ° 44' 41" E |
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| Mouth height | 489.1 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | 280.9 m | |
| Bottom slope | 5.6 ‰ | |
| length | 50 km with Seelesgraben | |
| Catchment area | 219.74 km² | |
| Discharge at Epplings A Eo gauge : 165 km² Location: 17.9 km above the mouth |
NNQ (12/03/1962) MNQ 1930/2009 MQ 1930/2009 Mq 1930/2009 MHQ 1930/2009 HHQ (08/23/2005) |
455 l / s 1.19 m³ / s 5.63 m³ / s 34.1 l / (s km²) 78.3 m³ / s 161 m³ / s |
| Discharge at the mouth (natural discharge) A Eo : 222 km² |
MNQ MQ Mq MHQ |
1.46 m³ / s 7.02 m³ / s 31.6 l / (s km²) 99.74 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Grünenbach , Röthenbach , Schwarzenbach | |
| Right tributaries | Jugetach , Giessbach | |
| Medium-sized cities | Wangen in the Allgäu | |
| Communities | Gestratz | |
The Obere Argen is a river in southwest Bavaria and southeast Baden-Württemberg ( southern Germany ).
The Obere Argen is the less water-rich of the two source rivers of the Argen and with around 50 kilometers also shorter than the 70 kilometers long Lower Argen , it also has about 40% less catchment area. Nevertheless - as evidenced by the common river code number GKZ 2152 - the Obere Argen is officially regarded as the main branch of the upper reaches of the Argen.
geography
Headwaters
West of Oberstaufen in the Bavarian-Swabian district of Oberallgäu , the short Steinach emerges in the forest , which is called Seelesgraben from Oberstaufen , runs almost exactly northwards in very flat terrain and takes in the Moosmühlbach and the Tannholzbach from the left . At the Weißenbachmühle in the market town, it runs after around 4.0 km of flowing distance to 770 m above sea level. NHN with the shorter (2.3 km) coming from the south-east Schwarzenbach , which was reinforced almost recently by the Trabersbach coming from the north-east (2.6 km).
course
The Obere Argen , created from Seelesgraben and Schwarzenbach, initially continues to flow roughly in the direction of Seelesgraben and, after Ebratshofen, takes on the Jugetach (11.64 km, 20.90 km² EZG) coming from the southeast from the right . Then it traverses the Eistobel northwest , an accessible gorge in the nature reserve of the same name . Then it runs in a further valley west to north-west, experiences briefly in Gestratz from the south inflow from the Grünenbach (3.9 km) and a little below finally from the Röthenbach (14.04 km, 24.03 km²).
A little later, for a long time, it is the state border between Bavaria on the left bank and Baden-Württemberg on the right bank. Here the Giessbach (13.5 km; 35.1 km²) flows from the right . Shortly before the city of Wangen im Allgäu, it changes completely to its Baden-Württemberg district of Ravensburg , in the city it changes its direction from northwest to southwest. In the village of Schwarzenbach in the Neuravensburg district , the Schwarzenbach (10.46 km, 14.61 km²) flows from the left , which had previously also been the border river between the two federal states. The Obere Argen immediately turns for the last less than three kilometers by more than 90 ° to the right (towards the northeast) and then flows in the beginning Argen nature reserve at 489.1 m above sea level. NHN merges with the Untere Argen coming here from the north , which has covered an approximately 40% longer stretch of flow in a more sweeping arc to the north, to form the Argen , which flows into Lake Constance after a further 13.2 km run approximately to the southwest between Kressbronn and Langenargen .
bridges
Argentobel Bridge
The Argentobel Bridge is a 230 meter long, twelve-span bridge on the Bavarian State Road 1318 56 meters above the Obere Argen and spans the end of the narrow Eistobel section of the river. It connects the eponymous main towns of the communities of Grünenbach and Maierhöfen in the Lindau district (Lake Constance) , which are roughly two kilometers on the left and right .
Railway bridge in Wangen
In Wangen, the railway bridge on the Wangen – Lindau railway line crosses the river.
Argen Bridge Föhlschmitten
In the Wangen district of Neuravensburg, near the parish village of Schwarzenbach, a few meters before the road bridge of the K 8002, a covered wooden bridge built by Abbot Beda Angehrn in 1790 leads over the Obere Argen.
Viaduct Obere Argen
Less than two kilometers before the confluence with the Untere Argen, the Autobahn 96 crosses the river over the 730 m long valley bridge Obere Argen . The motorway overpass consists, among other things, of a cable-stayed bridge in combination with a sub-tension - a type of construction that was first used in Germany.
Argentobel Bridge
Viaduct Obere Argen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Height according to the background layer topographic map from: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
- ↑ a b c d e f lengths (Obere Argen with Seelesbach) and catchment areas according to the directory of creek and river areas in Bavaria - Upper Rhine river area of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 470 KB) (currently page 10)
- ↑ a b c d e Bach lengths measured on the Bavarian Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )
- ^ German Hydrological Yearbook Rhine Region, Part I 2009 State Institute for Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, p. 70, accessed on January 22, 2016 (PDF, German, 1.85 MB).
- ↑ Geoportal Baden-Württemberg: LUBW service flowing waters - discharge parameters ( memento of the original dated December 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of December 1, 2016
- ↑ State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
literature
- Hermann Vogelmann: The bad ones. From the sources to the mouth . Eppe, Bergatreute 1988, ISBN 3-89089-009-1 .
- Norbert Kruse : The Argen and their names . In: In the Oberland . Volume 2, 2002, pp. 55-64 .