Saarbach (Feller Bach)

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Saarbach
Farschweilerbach
Data
Water code DE : 26724
location Hunsrück

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Feller Bach  → Moselle  → Rhine  → North Sea
source in Farschweiler
49 ° 42 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 51 ″  E
Source height 466  m above sea level NHN
muzzle at Farschweiler- Klostermühle in the Feller Bach Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '5 "  N , 6 ° 49' 52"  E 49 ° 44 '5 "  N , 6 ° 49' 52"  E
Mouth height 337  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 129 m
Bottom slope 54 ‰
length 2.4 km
Catchment area 4.756 km²

The Saarbach , also called Farschweilerbach , is a southern and left tributary of the Feller Bach in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Trier-Saarburg . It has a length of 2.41 km, a catchment area of 4.75 km² and the river code number 267240.

History of naming

The section of the Lorscheider Bach / Feller Bach from the Klostermühle to the mouth of the Welgerbach below the Burgkopf is often referred to as Saarbach . In this valley there are the field names In der Saarbach and Unter der Saarbach .

On the topographical survey of the Rhineland around 1820, the stream is still referred to as Saarbach below the Welgerbach estuary . The Welgerbach is called Mehringerbach on this map .

According to a description of the Roman road from Trier to Bingen , the name Saarbach is still used in Oberfell . After the union of the brooks that form the Feller Bach, the Roman road led over the Feller Bach, followed the Saarbach up to the point where it turns south in its course. The road then left the valley and continued towards Viehhaus ( Mehring ) and Büdlicherbrück .

geography

course

The Saarbach rises in Farschweiler on the K 84 at an altitude of 466  m above sea level. NHN .

It flows initially partly piped underground to the north through the village, then through a meadow valley and then north of the corridor When Herrenwiese on his left side from mosquito summer stream fed. To the southeast of the local community of Herl , it takes up the Herler Bach on the same side .

It crosses under the L 149 , then runs past the Herler Felsen and ends at the Klostermühle at an altitude of 337  m above sea level. NHN from the left into the Feller Bach approaching from the east . The Herl , Lorscheid and Farschweiler districts meet at the confluence .

The approximately 2.4 km long course of the Saarbach ends approximately 129 meters below its source, so it has an average bed gradient of approximately 54 ‰.

Catchment area

The 4.756 km² catchment area of ​​the Saarbach lies in the Osburger Hunsrück and is drained through it via the Feller Bach, the Moselle and the Rhine to the North Sea.

It borders

  • in the east to the catchment area of ​​the Bickenbach , which flows into the Feller Bach
  • in the south to that of the Misselbach , which drains over the Riveris and Ruwer into the Moselle
  • in the southwest to that of the Riveris tributary Thielenbach
  • and in the west to that of the Nossernbach , which flows into the Feller Bach.

Tributaries

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  2. ↑ a b GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )
  3. ↑ Bonner Jahrbücher , XXXI., Bonn 1861, p. 176