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Schweinfe
Schweinfebach
Data
Water code DE : 258282
location District of Waldeck-Frankenberg , Hesse ( Germany )
River system Rhine
Drain over Wohra  → Ohm  → Lahn  → Rhine  → North Sea
source in the Kellerwald near Löhlbach
51 ° 4 ′ 16 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 49 ″  E
Source height approx.  480  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in Gemünden in the Wohra coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 30 "  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 4"  E 50 ° 58 ′ 30 "  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 4"  E
Mouth height 249  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 231 m
Bottom slope approx. 17 ‰
length 13.4 km
Catchment area 54.589 km²
Drain MQ
 412 l / s
Right tributaries Bach of Römershausen, Holzbach

The Schweinfe , also called Schweinfebach , is a 13.4 km long, western and orographically right tributary of the Wohra in the Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg . It therefore belongs to the river system of the Rhine via Wohra, Ohm and Lahn .

Data

The Schweinfe ( DGKZ 258282) is a body of water III. Order . It is 13.4 km long and has a catchment area of 54.589 km² . It rises in the Kellerwald near Löhlbach at 480  m above sea level. NHN and flows into the Wohra in Gemünden at an altitude of about 249  m ; This results in a height difference of around 231 m, which is mainly managed in the upper reaches to Altenhaina . Their flow rate is 412 liters / second (MQ).

course

The Schweinfe rises in the Kellerwald within the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park . Its source is about 1.5 km northwest of Löhlbach immediately southwest of the federal highway 253 at an altitude of about 480  m ; directly northeast of the road, a 491.7  m high point is shown on topographic maps .

Initially, the Schweinfe, with the inclusion of several small tributaries, flows in a narrow valley between Pferdeberg ( 551.3  m ) in the northwest and Ebelsberg ( 514  m ) (with the remains of the Aulesburg ) in the southeast to southwest. West of the Eulenberg ( 511.4  m ) it runs just before the district road  101 for a short distance to the southeast and then along the L 101 in a southerly direction past Altenhaina and Kirschgarten and then through Halgehausen . From now on, it runs mostly east along state road  3073 in a south-south-east direction past Bockendorf , Sehlen and Grüsen .

Then the pig reaches Gemünden , where it is divided into two arms. The western one is the Mühlgraben and is about 3 m higher than the eastern one, which runs like the Wohra in the valley floor. He drove the Gemündener mills since the Middle Ages . In the village , the brook flows almost exactly south of its source at a height of 249  m into the Ohm tributary Wohra , which flows there from the north-northeast .

Catchment area and tributaries

The catchment area of the Schweinfe is 54.589 km². Its tributaries include the 5.1 km long “Bach von Römershausen”, which flows in at Bockendorf from the northwest, and “the” (local dialect peculiarity) coming from the west, 9.3 km long Holzbach (GKZ 2582828), the it takes up about 100 m from its own confluence with the Wohra.

History

During the construction of the Wohratalbahn to Kirchhain in 1913/14 , the bed of the Holzbach was lowered about 150 m south of the Gemünder train station in order to be passed under the embankment. This meant that the Holzbach had to pass under the Schweinfe aqueduct and the Mühlbach, into which it had previously flowed, and since the lowering it has now flowed about 80 m further east into the parallel arm of the Schweinfe.

Natural space and the environment

The Schweinfe rises in the Kellerwald, but then forms with its lower course and with the brook of Römershausen the eastern boundary of the Burgwald and the western boundary of the Kellerwald. The valley that accompanies the Schweinfe from Altenhaina and the Wohra from Haina Monastery above Gemünden is naturally called Buntstruth (No. 345.4). The Buntstruth is part of the Burgwald and extends to the northwest along the brook from Römershausen upstream to Römershausen and the Hauberner Hecke , the saddle between Burgwald and Kellerwald on the Rhine-Weser watershed . From the Schweinfe estuary downwards, the Wohratal represents its own natural area (345.3), which is also included in the Burgwald.

The Schweinfe is - like the Holzbach - an excellent trout water. Its course is partly lined with ecologically important low-lying meadows and, in the upper course, with mountain slopes that are at risk of erosion .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  3. ^ Art and adventure trail: Holzbachunterführung , on gemuenden-wohra.de

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