Schwarzach (Main)

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Schwarzach
The Schwarzach

The Schwarzach

Data
Water code EN : 2432
location Steigerwald

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source as Sägbrunngraben on the Stollberg in the Steigerwald
49 ° 53 ′ 6 ″  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 35 ″  E
Source height 455  m above sea level NN
muzzle near Schwarzach am Main in the Main Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '18 "  N , 10 ° 13' 25"  E 49 ° 48 '18 "  N , 10 ° 13' 25"  E
Mouth height 188  m above sea level NN
Height difference 267 m
Bottom slope 12 ‰
length 21.4 km (including Handthaler Bach )
Catchment area 179.1 km²
Discharge at the Reupelsdorf gauge (42.6% of the catchment area)
A Eo : 76.36 km²
Location: 6.6 km above the mouth
NNQ
MNQ 1991-2006
MQ 1991-2006
Mq 1991-2006
MHQ 1991-2006
HHQ (2005)
22 l / s
78 l / s
434 l / s
5.7 l / (s km²)
8.36 m³ / s
13.7 m³ / s
Discharge
A Eo : 179.1 km²
at the mouth
MQ
Mq
869 l / s
4.9 l / (s km²)

The Schwarzach is an approximately 21.4 km long left and eastern tributary of the Main in the Lower Franconian districts of Schweinfurt and Kitzingen .

Surname

The name Schwarzach is composed of the Old High German words swarz and aha together, meaning Black River. In the year 1003 the river name is attested as “Suarzaha. It went to the places Oberschwarzach , Stadelschwarzach , Münsterschwarzach and Stadtschwarzach . "

geography

Schwarzachquelle

Schwarzachquelle

The highest source of the Schwarzach is that of the Sägbrunngraben on the Stollberg in the Steigerwald . As the Handthaler Bach it flows through the village of Handthal to Oberschwarzach .

However , a karst spring on the southeastern outskirts of Oberschwarzach is referred to as the Schwarzach spring ( 49 ° 51 '32 "  N , 10 ° 24' 56"  E , approx. 275  m above sea level ). The watercourse that begins there joins the longer Handthaler Bach after only about 200 meters . The spring funnel of the Schwarzach spring overgrown with water plants is popularly known as the "spring of spring" or "gypsum hole".

The average flow from this source is 5 l / s. The sulphate-rich spring water comes from the gypsum keuper .

course

The on the eastern edge of Oberschwarzach at an altitude of 272  m above sea level. NHN , which is united with the Handthaler Bach, now flows through the village and then one after the other through the villages of Bimbach , Brünnau , Neuses am Sand , Stadelschwarzach , Laub , Reupelsdorf and Düllstadt . It will be accompanied by Bundesstraße 22 from Neuses am Sand to Schwarzach a.Main .

Immediately north of the Münsterschwarzach Abbey , the Castellbach, which is almost equal in terms of its water flow, flows into the Schwarzach from the left.

Around 700 meters later, the Schwarzach finally flows out at an altitude of 188  m above sea level. NHN near Schwarzach in the Main.

Its course, together with the Handthaler Bach, about 21.4 km long, ends about 267 meters below the source of the Handthaler Bach, so it has an average bottom gradient of 12 ‰.

Tributaries

Surname GKZ location Length
(main line)
[in km]
EZG

[in km²]
muzzle
place Height
in m. ü. NHN
Handthaler Bach 2432-12 right 05.10 006.72 Oberschwarzach 272
Breitbach 2432-14 Left 05.74 009.28 between Wiesenmühle and Greuthermühle 259
Brno ditch Left 02.06 00 to Brno 236
Neudorfer Graben Left 02.95 016.42 New on the sand 228
Schönbach 2432-16 Left 07.55 0 Stadelschwarzach 223
Solbach right 03.10 0 Stadelschwarzach 222
Altbach 2432-18 Left 07.60 010.9 Stadelschwarzach 220
Sadelsbach right 03.95 0 Stadelschwarzach 219
Marbach right 01.44 0 leaves 213
Bernbach Left 01.70 0 Reupelsdorf 202
Sea river ditch right 05.30 0 Schwarzach am Main 196
Castellbach 2432-20 Left 17.10 081.96 Münsterschwarzach 191

Schwarzach river system

Use as a canal and hydroelectric power station

The Münsterschwarzach Abbey uses one of the 12/13 The canal was laid out in the 19th century and renewed in the 20th century to power the Schwarzach river. Electricity has been generated in an abbey-owned hydropower plant since 1960 . The return of the water into the Schwarzach takes place at the level of Schweinfurter Strasse behind Café Haun.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Schwarzach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. GeoFachDatenAtlas and water services of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment
  2. Flood Action Plan Main
  3. Flood news service of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment ( information ) (as of September 6, 2011)
  4. Sum of the level values Reupelsdorf (Schwarzach) and Atzhausen (Castellbach), increased by the drainage of the remaining catchment area (24.21 km²), approximated from the data for the levels Schweinfurt Neuer Hafen , Würzburg (Pleichach) , Sachsenheim , Wolfsmünster , Mittelinn , Brünnstadt , Reupelsdorf , Atzhausen , Marktbreit and Steinbach (Main) at the mouth
  5. Information board at the Schwarzach spring
  6. Homepage of the abbey ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abtei-muensterschwarzach.de