Orb (Kinzig)

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Orb
(middle course: Aubach )
The Orb in Bad Orb

The Orb in Bad Orb

Data
Water code DE : 247852
location Main-Kinzig district (Hesse)
River system Rhine
Drain over Kinzig  → Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source southeast of Bad Orb
50 ° 11 ′ 31 ″  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 2 ″  E
Source height 316  m above sea level NHN
muzzle at the Autobahn 66 junction Wächtersbach in the Kinzig coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 17 ″  N , 9 ° 17 ′ 23 ″  E 50 ° 14 ′ 17 ″  N , 9 ° 17 ′ 23 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  140  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 176 m
Bottom slope approx. 16 ‰
length 11 km
Catchment area 43.392 km²
Discharge at the Bad Orb A Eo gauge : 18.59 km²
MNQ
MQ
Mq
106 l / s
443 l / s
23.8 l / (s km²)
Left tributaries Leimbach
Right tributaries hazel
The Orb (front) joins the Kinzig

The Orb (front) joins the Kinzig

The Orb is an approximately eleven kilometer long left tributary of the Kinzig in the Main-Kinzig district in the Hessian Spessart . He is the namesake of the spa town of Bad Orb .

geography

Orb source

The Orb Source

The Orb rises southeast of Bad Orb , directly on the connecting road between the spa town and the Jossgrund municipality , in the Orbquelle nature reserve near Bad Orb . In the source area there are six springs, the Orbquelle , the Stierruhquelle , the Mittelquelle , the Mackenborn , the Grüneborn and the Saustallquelle . The last one got its name because it was the only place where the animals could be watered. The Orbquelle has been taken for the water supply in the Orb valley.

course

After 3.5 km the river reaches the spa gardens in Bad Orb. In the city center it meets its largest tributary, the hazel . Another tributary is the Leimbach .

North of the former Untertor in the Autal nature reserve near Bad Orb , the Orb is also known as "Aubach" in popular tourism. An inn that goes back to a concession from 1875 was originally the "Aumühle". The Bad Orber small train "Emma" runs through a section of the lower Orbe valley.

At the junction Wächtersbach of the federal highway 66 , the Orb flows into the Kinzig .

Tributaries

Kinzig river system

history

The Orb was not always a Hessian river. After the reorganization of the borders in this area, as a result of the Congress of Vienna , it flowed on Bavarian soil from 1814 to 1868. The Orb (then Orb Bach) ran from its source to its mouth in the territory of the Kingdom of Bavaria ( Gemünden am Main district office ). After the military defeat in the German War , Bavaria had to surrender the administrative area of ​​the old Orb district court to Hessen-Nassau .

See also

literature

  • Christoph Poch, Andreas Herz: The Hessian Spessart waters on the way to Europe. In: District Committee of the Main-Kinzig District (ed.): Mitteilungsblatt Zentrum für Regionalgeschichte 40, 2015, pp. 14-19.

Web links

Commons : Orb  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Altitude table of the Orb spring
  2. Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  3. Topographic map 1: 50,000 Spessart North
  4. Topographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Baiern this side of the Rhine Sheet: 10. Orb