Schmalbach (Michelbach)

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Schmalbach
Data
Water code DE : 248481286
location Taunus

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Michelbach  → Usa  → Wetter  → Nidda  → Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source in the eastern Hintertaunus northwest of Usingen - Wernborn
50 ° 22 ′ 4 ″  N , 8 ° 32 ′ 51 ″  E
Source height 360  m above sea level NN
muzzle north of Wernborn in the Michelbach coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 14 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 7"  E 50 ° 22 ′ 14 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 7"  E
Mouth height 274  m above sea level NN
Height difference 86 m
Bottom slope 54 ‰
length 1.6 km
Catchment area approx. 1.5 km²

The Schmalbach is a one and a half kilometer long stream in the Hessian Hochtaunuskreis . It is a right and western tributary of the Michelbach .

geography

course

The Schmalbach arises in the eastern Hintertaunus between the Usingen districts of Michelbach in the north-west and Wernborn in the south-east in an open corridor towards both districts with forests. It rises at an altitude of about 360  m above sea level. NN at the northeast foot of the predominantly arable elevation Pfaffenkopf ( 397  m above sea level ) at the transition from the arable to the meadow in the Gewann In the upper Schmalbach . The brook flows in an easterly direction and a good hundred meters south of the Birkenhof stud through the meadows of the Gewanns In der lower Schmalbach .

After about a third of its course, it enters the forest around the Eichkopf ( 395  m above sea level ) in the south and runs through the mixed forest area in the Schmalbach in a water protection zone . In its last hundred meters, it leaves the forest again and then flows about half a kilometer north of Wernborn at an altitude of about 274  m above sea level. NN from the right in its floodplain in the Michelbach , opposite a chain of small fish ponds on the other bank, behind which the Bernhardskopf up to over 350  m above sea level. NN rises.

Catchment area

The Schmalbach drains about 1.5 km² over the Michelbach into the USA . The catchment area has roughly the contour of a thick spindle, the axis of which extends from the western tip, where in the Buchwald the highest elevation in it between the Usingen districts of Michelbach and Eschbach over 425  m above sea level. Reached above sea level, to the mouth in the far east extends about 2.2 km. Across it, it measures about 1.0 km. Its north-western and north-eastern watershed runs towards the upper Michelbach, the south-eastern towards the downstream. Beyond the southern one, the Dittenbach moves towards the Usa, behind the southwestern one lies the catchment area of ​​the Usa tributary Eschbach .

Usa River System

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessenviewer (Geoportal Hessen) of the Hessian State Office for Soil Management and Geoinformation with property mapping ( information )
  2. ↑ Google Earth
  3. ↑ Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  4. ↑ Catchment area measured on: Hessenviewer (Geoportal Hessen) of the Hessian State Office for Soil Management and Geoinformation with property mapping ( notes )

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