Richtbach (copper)

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Richtbach
Data
Water code DE : 23867414
location Hohenloher and Haller level

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Copper  → Kocher  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source on the north-western edge of Zusatzshausen
49 ° 10 '37 "  N , 9 ° 42' 59"  E
Source height approx.  393  m above sea level NHN
muzzle approx. 1.2 km southeast of Kupferzell - Westernach from the right and about southeast in the upper copper coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 25 ″  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 59 ″  E 49 ° 11 ′ 25 ″  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 59 ″  O
Mouth height approx.  347  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 46 m
Bottom slope approx. 22 ‰
length 2.1 km
Catchment area 1.701 km²

The Richtbach is a 2 km long brook in the suburb of Übermünkheim in the municipality of Untermünkheim in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in northern Baden-Württemberg , which flows into the upper Kupfer from the right and southeast a little below the river bridge of the B 19 .

geography

course

The Richtbach arises at about 393  m above sea level. NHN on the northwestern edge of Zusatzshausen next to a dirt road going from the K 2563 to Brachbach , only about 0.5 km west-northwest of the source of the copper itself. It runs, with a few light, elongated windings constantly in a north-westerly direction in a natural depression, far predominantly in a ditch next to dirt roads.

First of all, he passes the small industrial area of ​​Zusatzshausen around the street Am Richtbach on the left side of the federal road 19 between the Richtbach garrisons on the left and the household effects on the right . Then it moves in the open field and after about half of its course, shortly after a field lane intersection from the right and east, it opens a ditch that is also in a natural hollow following a field lane, which is about as long as its own upper course to get there.

At the beginning of his last quarter he picks up another, shorter dirt road ditch from the same direction on the southern edge of the forest island Hohholz and then flows through the forest island for less than 200 meters. Beyond it runs in a field ditch and then flows out to about 347  m above sea level. NHN from the right into the upper Kupfer , which is already 4.9 km long there due to a more detoured course and has accumulated a partial catchment area of ​​9.0 km² on the other side up to the eastern slope of the Waldenburg mountains .

The Richtbach itself flows after a 2.1 km long path with an average bed gradient of 22 ‰ about 46 meters below its origin.

Catchment area

The Richtbach has a catchment area of ​​1.7 km² which , in terms of natural space , belongs entirely to the sub-area Kupferzeller Ebene and Kocheneck of the Hohenloher and Haller Ebene . Its highest point on the field hill Winterberg, about a quarter of a kilometer northeast of the outskirts of the village, reaches almost 411  m above sea level. NHN .

Its short south-eastern watershed from there to the center of Zusatzighausen runs in front of the headwaters of the absorbing copper , which rises less than half a kilometer from the Richtbach origin, a little east of Bereigshausen. Even beyond the long, left, southwestern watershed down to the mouth, the Kupfer is the next open body of water after its bend on the upper reaches on the other side. The area adjacent to the north drains predominantly via the Werschbach , the one in the east via the Waschbach further down to the Kupfer.

In the entire catchment area, the Lettenkeuper ( Erfurt formation ) is located in the subsoil , under which the structure- forming shell limestone of the Hohenlohe plain begins. The letter keuper is covered extensively at the watersheds by loess sediment from Quaternary deposits.

The entire catchment area lies in the Zusatzigshausen suburb of the Untermünkheim community . Just before the confluence, the Richtbach crosses with the Hohholz one of the small trees typical of the Hohenlohe Plain, which takes up significantly less than a tenth of the area. In the rest of the corridor, large, cleared fields dominate strongly compared to the meadows. Settlement is limited to part of the village of Zusatzshausen including an industrial area on the outskirts and two resettlers' farms on the road from there to the hamlet of Brachbach, which is already outside the district.

Tributaries and lakes

List of tributaries and RiverIcon-SmallLake.svglakes from source to mouth. Length of water, catchment area and altitude according to the corresponding layers on the LUBW online map. Other sources for the information are noted.

Origin of the Richtbach at about 393  m above sea level. NHN on the north-west edge of Zusatzshausen next to a dirt road leading from Brachbacher Straße near house no.

  • (Ditch in the field), from the right and east to about 369  m above sea level. NHN , approx. 0.9 km and over 0.3 km². Arises at about 400  m above sea level. NHN near the Aussiedlerhof at Eschentalerstraße 2.
  • ( Ditch at the edge of the Hohholzes ), from the right and east to about 347  m above sea level. NHN , approx. 0.5 km and less than 0.2 km². Arises at about 380  m above sea level. NHN on a dirt road fork between the bathes Country fields in the south, Höhäcker the north and Straßenäcker the east. Runs along the last third of the run along the southern edge of the forest island Hohholz , less than the last 50 meters without an accompanying dirt road.

Mouth of the Richtbach from the right and southeast to about 347  m above sea level. NHN opposite the sewage treatment plant approx. 1.2 km southeast of Westernach , which is already in the municipality of Kupferzell , from the right and approximately southeast into the upper Kupfer . The Richtbach is 2.1 km long and has a 1.7 km² catchment area.

Nature and protected areas

At Richtbach there is hardly a tree or bush in the corridor along its entire course. Along its first, larger inlet, there is a more deeply deepened section of this bed ditch with a wooded field over a hundred meters long with tall ash trees. Rows of trees were planted along a few dirt road sections elsewhere in the open corridor of the catchment area. An older map from 1930 shows a more distant and slightly less smooth course than today in the meadow hollow of the brook, which is still rich in meadows.

The short-traveler in the forest Hohholz however, is natural. There, the partly loamy, partly stony brook bed is one to three meters wide and shows meanders, through the change of their impact and sliding slopes, steep and flat bank sections have formed.

In the last section of the run after the Hochholz, the stream briefly borders the water protection area Kupfer, Kupferzell on the right side .

Individual evidence

LUBW

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

  1. ↑ a b c Height according to the contour line image on the background layer topographic map .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .
  3. ↑ a b c Catchment area according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .
  4. ↑ Catchment area summed up from the sub-catchment areas according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .
  5. ↑ a b Height according to black lettering on the background layer topographic map .
  6. ↑ a b Length measured on the background layer topographic map .
  7. ↑ a b Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map .
  8. ↑ Protected areas according to the relevant layers, nature partly according to the biotope layer .

Other evidence

  1. ↑ Ralph Jätzold: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 172 Nördlingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 3.9 MB)
  2. ↑ Geology according to the layers for Geological Map 1: 50,000 on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes ). The geological map listed under →  Literature shows roughly the same picture .
  3. ↑ Old brook course from: Meßtischblatt 6824 Hall from 1930 in the Deutsche Fotothek

literature

  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 6824 Schwäbisch Hall
  • Geological map of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park 1: 50,000, published by the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg i. Br. 2001.

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