Röllbach (Main)

	Röllbach
	The Röllbach at the Paradeismühle
	Data
Water code	DE : 24736
location	Spessart Bavaria Lower Franconia Miltenberg district ; ;
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Main → Rhine → North Sea
source	Röllbachbrunnen southeast of Röllbach ; 49 ° 45 ′ 57 ″ N , 9 ° 16 ′ 10 ″ E
Source height	297 m above sea level NHN
muzzle	at Röllfeld from the right and east in the Main Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '59 " N , 9 ° 10' 50" E 49 ° 45 '59 " N , 9 ° 10' 50" E;
Mouth height	121 m above sea level NHN
Height difference	176 m
Bottom slope	22 ‰
length	8.1 km
Catchment area	8.05 km²
Small towns	Klingenberg am Main
Communities	Röllbach
	The pond at the Röllbachquelle

The Röllbach is an 8 km long right and eastern tributary of the Main in the Miltenberg district in the Bavarian Spessart .

Surname

The name Röllbach is derived either from the noun Röll , which means rubble , or from the personal name Rollo . The basic word in the name is -bach . The stream gave its name to the municipality of Röllbach , whose main town it flows through.

geography

Röllbachquelle

The Röllbach spring

The Röllbach rises southeast of Röllbach a little above the tree line at the western foot of the Long Mountain at about 295 m above sea level. NHN in the Röllbachbrunnen designated as a natural monument . The spring water escaping there is fed into a basin that is used to tread water . The drain is dammed into a small pond . The source of the spring emerges from the alternating clay - sandstone sequence of the middle red sandstone .

The source has been identified as an important geotope by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (Geotope number: 676Q002).

course

After its source, the Röllbach soon runs in the open corridor in a west-northwest direction to Röllbach , whose old town center is on the right bank. There it bends southwest at the tributary of its largest tributary Ammelbach and passes the Zeiselsmühle at the end of the village in an already deepened valley, in which it follows from the village to the district road MIL 1. Further down, just one kilometer east of the settlement boundary of Röllfeld , its water used to drive the Paradeismühle . Then, before the exit into the wide and flat right valley slope of the Main, the Mühlbach canal branches off to the right , which runs next to the road to Röllfeld and used to supply four mills there before its return. The brook itself runs through the center of Röllfeld in a north-westerly direction, crosses state road 2309 to the right of the river and then flows into the Main .

Catchment area

The 8.05 km² catchment area of the Röllbach lies in the Spessart and is drained via the Main and the Rhine to the North Sea.

It borders

in the east to that of the Main tributary Ullersbach
in the southeast to that of the Kälbesbach , also a tributary of the Main
in the south to that of the Heubach , another brook that flows into the Main
in the northwest to that of the Main tributary Seltenbach
and in the north to that of the Aubach , which flows into the Elsava .

The highest point is the 512 m above sea level. NHN high Geiersberg .

The catchment area of the Röllbach is predominantly forested in the east and west, with a mosaic of fields, grassland and settlements in between.

Tributaries

Height information requested (with a right click) on: BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information ) ( detailed map )

Ammelbach , from the right and northeast to about 203 m above sea level. NHN on Limesweg in Röllbach . At this largest tributary, the Röllbach bends to the southwest.
Walpertsgraben, from the right and northwest to about 182 m above sea level. NHN after the Zeiselsmühle
Buchbach / Buchgraben, from the right and northwest to about 172 m above sea level. NHN at a stream crossing
(Inflow from the Finstertal ), from the left and south opposite the previous one
Lausgraben, from the right and north to about 153 m above sea level. NHN from the Lausgrund shortly after the Paradeismühle
Herrnbrunngraben / Höllgraben, from the left and east-southeast to about 149 m above sea level. NHN
→ (exit of the Mühlbach), to the right to about 148 m above sea level. NHN
Weidenbuschgraben, from the left and south to about 144 m above sea level. NHN
← (return of the Mühlbach), from the right to about 126 m above sea level. NHN in Röllfeld

places

Only the settlement areas with the lowest level of subdivision are on the bank.

Miltenberg district

community Röllbach
- Röllbach (parish village, mostly on the right)
City of Klingenberg am Main
- Paradeismühle (single property, left)
- Röllfeld (district)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
↑ ^a ^b Directory of stream and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 151 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB)
^ Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 190 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
^ Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Geotop Röllbachquelle SE von Röllbach (accessed on October 11, 2017).

Web links

Commons : Röllbach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Map of the course and catchment area of the Röllbach on: BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )

[DE-BY_BV-1] BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )

[DE-BY_GV24151-2] Directory of stream and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 151 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB)

[LfO-3] Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 190 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

[Geotop-4] Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Geotop Röllbachquelle SE von Röllbach (accessed on October 11, 2017).