Schambach (Altmühl, Riedenburg)

	Schambach
	The Schambach according to its origin in Schamhaupten
	Data
Water code	DE : 13892
location	Franconian Alb Southern Franconian Alb; Bavaria District of Eichstätt Altmannstein market ; ; District of Kelheim City of Riedenburg ; ;
River system	Danube
Drain over	Altmühl → Danube → Black Sea
source	in the pubic origin in pubic head ; 48 ° 54 ′ 48 ″ N , 11 ° 35 ′ 46 ″ E
Source height	below 405 m above sea level NN
muzzle	in Riedenburg from the right and southwest into the Altmühl coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 40 ″ N , 11 ° 41 ′ 12 ″ E 48 ° 57 ′ 40 ″ N , 11 ° 41 ′ 12 ″ E;
Mouth height	below 346.6 m above sea level NN
Height difference	58.4 m
Bottom slope	3.6 ‰
length	16.3 km
Catchment area	138.84 km²
	Water wheel at the Schambach origin

The Schambach is a more than 16 km long right tributary of the Altmühl near Riedenburg , in the southeastern foothills of the Franconian Alb .

geography

Shame origin

The origin of shame

The pubic origin is in pubic heads . It is a karst spring with an average discharge of 330 liters per second. The springs lie in a large spring pond that merges into a small one. The large pond is about 150 meters long, 35 meters wide and encloses a small island.

Uphill from here, the valley can be followed a lot further, namely it begins at Dörndorf about nine kilometers as the crow flies west-northwest of Schamhaupten, but most sections are permanently dry. An unstable upper course in it directly above the Schambach origin begins at the inlet of the Höllental into the forest valley at the Red Cross and is about 2.3 kilometers long.

course

The Schambach flows to Schamhaupten through the Riedenburger Schambachtal initially to the south. At Sandersdorf it turns east and reaches the Altmannstein market via Neuenhinzenhausen and Sollern . From there, the course of the river is accompanied by State Road 2231 to the north. It flows on through Hexenagger and the village of the same name Schambach. In Riedenburg , the Schambach flows over a rock staircase with a waterfall of over five meters into the city pond, which has a connection to the Altmühl .

Their water quality class is II (moderately polluted).

history

The dry Obertal and the upper reaches of the Schambach up to its left turn from Altmannstein is followed by the Upper German-Raetian Limes on the right edge hills at a distance of mostly less than a kilometer .

Web links

Commons : Schambach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Otto Sporbeck, Hansgeorg Schlichtmann: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 173 Ingolstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1990. → Online map (PDF; 3.6 MB)
↑ Height according to the contour map on the BayernAtlas.
↑ Reservoir level in the Main-Danube Canal between the Riedenburg and Kelheim locks, in blue letters on the BayernAtlas.
↑ ^a ^b List of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Lech to Naab river area, page 119 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 2.9 MB)

[BfL-173-1] Otto Sporbeck, Hansgeorg Schlichtmann: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 173 Ingolstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1990. → Online map (PDF; 3.6 MB)

[BA-HLB-Höhe-2] Height according to the contour map on the BayernAtlas.

[Stauhöhe-Riedenburg-Kelheim-3] Reservoir level in the Main-Danube Canal between the Riedenburg and Kelheim locks, in blue letters on the BayernAtlas.

[DE-BY_GV13119-4] List of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Lech to Naab river area, page 119 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 2.9 MB)