Salzbach (Elbbach)
| Salzbach | ||
 Salzbach in the center of Thalheim |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | DE : 2587672 | |
| location | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Elbbach → Lahn → Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | in the Westerwald south of Weltersburg 50 ° 28 ′ 1 ″ N , 8 ° 2 ′ 25 ″ E |
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| Source height | 339 m above sea level NN | |
| muzzle | near Hadamar - Niederzeuzheim in the Elbbach Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 1 ″ N , 8 ° 2 ′ 25 ″ E 50 ° 28 ′ 1 ″ N , 8 ° 2 ′ 25 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | approx. 140 m above sea level NN | |
| Height difference | approx. 199 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 21 ‰ | |
| length | 9.3 km | |
| Catchment area | 30.735 km² | |
The Salzbach is a brook in the Rhineland-Palatinate and then Hessian Westerwald , which flows from the right into the middle Elbbach in the Niederzeuzheim district of Hadamar in the Limburg-Weilburg district, following an approximately south-eastern course of name of a good 9 km . Together with its left source branch, it is even around 10.6 km long.
course
The Salzbach is created by the confluence of two spring branches. The western one, only around 0.3 km long, is at an altitude of around 339 m above sea level. NN south of Weltersburg , it is identified by the official waterway map as the main branch. The north-east, which is about 1.5 km longer, starts its course on the north-eastern edge of Girkenroth at about 408 m above sea level. NN .
After its source branches have merged, the Salzbach flows in a southerly direction and after a good 400 meters it reaches the northern edge of the town of Salz , which it then crosses partially through pipes. Afterwards he moves, fed again and again by small meadow ditches, through a green landscape, in the lower part of which numerous trees line its banks. At Mühlberg the meadows give way to the trees of the Strutwald and the valley visibly narrows. A little further south, the Walmeroder Bach flows in from the right . The Salzbach now squeezes eastwards through a narrow, wooded valley, past the ruins of the Struthmühle, crosses after about half a kilometer after changing direction from Rhineland-Palatinate to Hesse .
It now flows in a south-easterly direction, along the edge of the Thalheim forest on its right. In this area a roughly parallel mill ditch was previously branched off to the left, which used to feed water to the Schlaudermühle. After its passage, the Salzbach leaves the edge of the forest behind and the Molsberger Bach coming from the southwest flows to it from the right near the Birkenhof . It then runs through a little north of the center of Thalheim , to the north of Neue Straße on its left side the Dorndorfer Bach approaching northeast and - after crossing under Neue Straße only about 60 meters downstream - the Seifenbach, which runs almost in the opposite direction . After leaving the village, the Salzbach flows between the Thalheimer Kiesgrube nature reserve in the northeast and the Neumühle in a deciduous forest in the southwest and passes the Salzbacher Hof , turning more and more to the south. He then goes around the village of Niederzeuzheim in the south-west, crossing under the tracks of the Oberwesterwaldbahn . Immediately afterwards it flows into the southern edge of the village and at an altitude of about 143 m above sea level. NN in the Elbbach .
Tributaries
- Walmeroder Bach (right), 2.6 km
- Molsberger Bach (right), 1.8 km
- Dorndorfer Bach (left), (with Kieselbach) 4.3 km
- Seifenbach (right), 1.8 km
Elbbach river system
Dates and character
The Salzbach is a coarse material rich, silicate low mountain range. Its catchment area covers an area of 30.7 square kilometers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration
- ↑ Topographic map 1: 25,000
- ↑ a b Map service of the Geoportal Wasser Rheinland-Pfalz
- ↑ According to the map service of the Geoportal Wasser Rheinland-Pfalz, the origin of the entire Salzbach is the source of the western branch.
- ↑ The former Struthmühle near Molsberg / Bilkheim. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ The former Schlaudermühle in Struth near Dorndorf. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Type 5: Coarse material-rich, silicate low mountain streams. (PDF; 141 kB) In: Umweltbundesamt.de. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .