Rechbach (copper)

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Rechbach
Data
Water code DE : 23867452
location Hohenloher and Haller level

Kocher-Jagst Plains

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Copper  → cooker
source approx. 750 m west of Kubach
49 ° 14 ′ 26 ″  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 46 ″  E
Source height approx.  362  m above sea level NHN
muzzle approx. 600 m northwest of Kupferzell- Ulrichsberg Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '30 "  N , 9 ° 39' 28"  E 49 ° 14 '30 "  N , 9 ° 39' 28"  E
Mouth height approx.  308  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 54 m
Bottom slope approx. 19 ‰
length 2.9 km
Catchment area approx. 1.9 km²

The Rechbach is a less than 3 km long brook in the municipality of Kupferzell in Hohenlohekreis in north-eastern Baden-Württemberg , which flows westward about 600 m northwest of Ulrichsberg from the right into the middle copper .

geography

course

The Rechbach arises at about 362  m above sea level. NHN approx. 750 m west of the hamlet of Kubach at a fork in the field. The stream flows steadily westwards, initially as a ditch between fields next to a field path to the L 2372, where the accompanying path ends. A hundred meters later, the Rechbach crosses under federal highway 19 and is now accompanied by a loose row of bushes and trees. About one kilometer below the origin, it passes the copper-celled hamlet of Rechbach on the right slope in a hollow that is only 15-20 meters deep .

As a result, the connecting road from Rechbach to Ulrichsberg crosses it. a dirt road, after which it runs in an ever wider grassland hollow , and the connecting road from Ulrichsberg a little behind the left watershed to the Künzelsauer Weckhof . Finally, on the right slope there is even a twenty meter wide strip of forest. After a total of 2.9 km it flows about 600 meters northwest of the center of Ulrichsberg at about 362  m above sea level. NHN from the right into the middle copper . The stream, which ends about 54 meters below its origin, has a mean bed gradient of about 19 ‰.

Catchment area

The approximately 1.9 km² large catchment area of ​​the Rechbach extends with the contour of a spindle less than one kilometer wide, a little over 3 km from its approximately 371  m above sea level. NHN high easternmost and highest point near Kubach westwards to the mouth. In terms of natural space, its somewhat larger eastern part belongs to the sub-area Kupferzeller Ebene and Kocheneck of the Hohenloher and Haller levels , with the rest of the Ohrnwaldriedel belonging to the Kocher-Jagst levels . Geologically, the area is characterized by the Lettenkeuper ( Erfurt Formation ), the deepest layer of the Keuper , which in more recent Quaternary times was covered with loess sediment on the hills to the right and left , which now surrounds the creek basin in the shape of a jaw. Only at the beginning of the deeper basin, about from the Ulrichsberg – Weckhof road, does the Upper Muschelkalk set in on the valley floor , into which the Rechbach also flows.

There is almost no forest in the area and the open land is largely covered by fields. The only place in it is the hamlet Rechbach to the right of the middle course. The entire area belongs to the municipality of Kupferzell .

The following streams compete in turn:

  • On the northern watershed of the creek flowing mündungsnah from the blade slightly downward to copper , further east and mostly over but the next right copper inflow takes Kuhbach the drain to the other side.
  • In the far east of the southern watershed is the catchment area of ​​the previous right copper tributary Lietenbach , after which the copper itself is the next body of water on the much longer part.

Tributaries

The Rechbach has no significant tributaries. Shorter, unstable source runoffs to the Rechbach, which were still recorded on a map from the 1930s, are now drained or run in ditches.

Nature and protected areas

The Rechbach is initially about a meter wide and a half to a meter deep below the village of Rechbach. Further down, it becomes one to two meters wide and runs in a one to two meter deep gully. There stands a rocky trough wall with ferns growing in the cracks above the bed, which is now stony or showing limestone banks. Around the hamlet of Rechbach, the accompanying wood is apparently planted, which is indicated by the high number of gray alders. On the other hand, the uppermost course next to dirt roads up to about the main road is completely bare, and the ditch here only carries water periodically. Apparently, the sources mentioned in the section on the tributaries feed the steady flow further downwards a little before and after Rechbach.

A large part of the catchment area belongs to the Ulrichsberg / Rechbach water protection area .

Individual evidence

LUBW

Official online waterway map with a suitable section and the layers used here: Course and catchment area of ​​the Rechbach
General introduction without default settings and layers: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( notes )

  1. ↑ a b Height according to the contour line image on the topographic map background layer .
  2. ↑ Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .
  3. ↑ Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map .
  4. ↑ Stream description according to the layer biotope , water protection area according to the layer of the same name.

Other evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
  2. ↑ Geology roughly based on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes )
  3. ↑ The measuring table sheet 6723 Öhringen from 1933 and 6724 Künzelsau from 1932 in the Deutsche Fotothek .

literature

  • Topographical map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 6723 Öhringen and No. 6724 Künzelsau

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