Sülzbach (Sulm)

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Sülzbach
Old name: Gerbersbach
View up the Sülzbach from above the retention basin built in 2010 near the village of the same name

View up the Sülzbach from above the retention basin built in 2010 near the village of the same name

Data
Water code DE : 2385836
location Swabian-Franconian forest mountains

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Sulm  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source A good kilometer east of Wimmental on the edge of the K 2113 and the A 6 .
49 ° 9 ′ 50 ″  N , 9 ° 22 ′ 18 ″  E
Source height approx.  253  m above sea level NHN
muzzle Through the Sülzbach industrial park In den Mühlwiesen from the right into the Sulm coordinates: 49 ° 8 '42 "  N , 9 ° 20' 24"  E 49 ° 8 '42 "  N , 9 ° 20' 24"  E
Mouth height approx.  183  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 70 m
Bottom slope approx. 18 ‰
length 3.9 km
Catchment area approx. 4.745 km²

The Sülzbach is a stream in the district of Heilbronn in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, almost four kilometers long, which flows into the Sulm from the left near Sülzbach in the municipality of Obersulm .

geography

Source and history

The Sülzbach arises in the northeastern tip of the Weinsberg municipality about one kilometer east of Wimmental on this side of the underpass under the A 6 between the motorway and the K 2113 at about 253  m above sea level. NHN . From here the young body of water, which was formerly called Gerbersbach in Wimmental, moves in a westerly direction between the two roads towards Wimmental, below the Schönenberg in the north, the entire slope of which, called Dimbacher Berg , consists of vineyards, and almost down to the left Banks of wooded Kreuzberg in the south.

After a kilometer, it passes the Wimmental outdoor pool, here the Fuchsklinge runs down the upper slope to the right, but it has no water. Then he enters the Wimmentals settlement area, where he turns to the south, almost on the western edge of the village. It runs under the Wimmental viaduct on the Autobahn, here on the right already accompanied by the K 2111. While the forest-crowned mountains Galgenberg and Rauhberg are still close to the left , there are now flat, plowed hills on his right. At the inlet of the also waterless Rauhklinge from the left, whose northeast slope is also made up of vines, it crosses over to the municipality of Obersulm .

At the Obersulmer settlement area Am Goldberg, which is then at the west foot of the Rauhberg , there are two ponds with a total area of ​​around 16 acres on the left bank, after which the Wolfsklinge flows from the east below the southern slope of the Rauhberg, which is again made up of vineyards . After its inflow, the valley floodplain - called here by the inhabitants of Sülzbach's Deele (little valley) - widens to the damp eastern bay of the sandy meadows , while the first settlement houses in the village of Sülzbach are already on the right, beyond the 2111 district road. A ditch drains the wetland from the left into the Sülzbach .

In 2010, right in front of the dam on the Crailsheim – Heilbronn railway line , the Sulm water board completed a retention basin without permanent impoundment with an 11.6 m high earth dam and a retention volume of up to 235,000 m³ for flood protection. After it has flowed through its dam and that of the railway, the brook enters the Sulm floodplain and the Sülzbach settlement area in a curve to the southwest in front of the Sülzbacher Altenberg . The Sülzbach passes the old town center on the left and runs over a weir immediately before crossing under the district road 2112 (Staufenstrasse). After crossing the newer commercial zone of the village on its banks, the Sülzbach flows after a total of 3.8 km of run at about 183  m above sea level. NHN from the right into the Sulm .

Catchment area

The catchment area of ​​the Sülzbach covers 4.7 km² and is roughly triangular in shape. Its northeastern tip lies on the plateau of the Gagernberg , from where the watershed stretches in a south-westerly direction over Galgenberg , Rauhberg and the Sülzbacher Altenberg to the mouth. On the other side is the large catchment area of ​​the Dimbach , which drains via the Schwabbach to the Brettach , to the east, and that of the Seebächles to the southeast . To the west, beyond the range of hills accompanying the Sülzbach section to the right, lies the parallel valley of the Wetterischbach , flowing through Grantschen , the catchment area border runs north up to the Princesswäldle on the ridge of the Wildenberg , where the northwestern tip of the catchment area lies. On the rest of the eastern part of the watershed on the north side over the book , where the 317.7  m above sea level. NHN is the highest point, and the Schönenberg back to the Gagernberg competes in the north with the larger Eberbach , which flows into the Sulm just before Erlenbach , then the Dimbach again .

Over three quarters of the catchment area are in the open ground, the rest of the wooded part is limited to the high and north-facing slopes, while the south-facing slopes are mostly used for viticulture.

Municipalities and localities

The Sülzbach runs through the municipal areas of Weinsberg and Obersulm . The vast majority of the catchment area lies in the Weinsberger district, Obersulm has less than half as much. About 0.4 km² at its northeastern tip form a community exclave from Ellhofen on which there is almost only forest. A tiny snippet in the west also belongs to Ellhofen, a little larger in the north to Bretzfeld . The only places in the catchment area are Wimmental (to Weinsberg) and the residential area Am Goldberg and Sülzbach (both to Obersulm); all three are on the bank of the stream.

Landscape and nature conservation

To the northeast of Wimmental and west of Wimmental, two old reed sandstone quarries are under biotope protection on the edge of the valley in the northern plateau. Also noteworthy are some blades on this upper edge of the valley , including the fox blade and another one on the donkey's head northwest of Wimmental.

In the corridor, a number of field trees are protected as biotopes, the wood in the Wolfsklinge , some dry stone walls in the vineyards and sunken paths; In wetlands, the sandy meadows on the Unterlauf, the area around the ponds near the Am Goldberg residential area and the area around a tiny pond west of Wimmental.

Natural monuments are two horse chestnuts on the Altenberg west of Wimmental, a pear tree on the vineyard edge of the Rauhberg , the Wolfsklinge , the sandy meadows and the summit of the (Sülzbacher) Altenberg .

Geology and natural space

The plateaus of Schönenberg , Buch , Wildenberg , Gagernberg , Kreuzberg , Galgenberg and Rauhberg accompanying the upper valley on the right and left and the middle one on the left are all in the reed sandstone ( Stuttgart formation ), the source and the valley under the uppermost slopes, on the other hand, along the entire length in the Gipskeuper ( Grabfeld formation ) below. The low range of hills to the right of the southern course is covered by loess , which also takes up part of the Gagernberg plateau .

The two above-mentioned old quarries reveal the local reed sandstone storage, at an earlier geotope on the (Sülzbacher) Altenberg the estheria layers of the gypsum keuper on the hilltop are exposed.

In terms of nature , the area is included in the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains , with the upper part up to the Wimmental bend in the Sulmer Bergebene sub-area , then to the Weinsberger Valley sub-area .

Individual evidence

LUBW

Official online waterway map with a suitable section and the layers used here: Course and catchment area of ​​the Sülzbach
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 according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .
  4. ↑ Lake area after the layer standing waters .
  5. ↑ Data of the retention basin after the dam layer .
  6. ↑ Height according to black lettering on the background layer topographic map .
  7. ↑ Protected areas according to the relevant layers, nature partly according to the biotope layer .

Other evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Hörbe: Chronicle Wimmental. Rudolf Hörbe, Weinsberg 1998, p. 23
  2. ↑ Geology according to the geological map listed under →  Literature , corresponding to the layer for Geological Map 1: 50,000 on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes )
  3. ↑ The three geotopes, whose profiles were available on the Geoserver website of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) when this article was first written in 2011 , are no longer noted on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( Notes )
  4. ↑ 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)

literature

  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North, as a single sheet No. 6822 Obersulm
  • 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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