Selz

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Selz
Progress plan

Progress plan

Data
Water code EN : 252
location Northern Upper Rhine Lowland

Rhine-Main lowlands

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Rhine  → North Sea
source on the western edge of the Alzeyer hill country at Orbis
49 ° 41 ′ 46 ″  N , 7 ° 59 ′ 55 ″  E
Source height 319  m above sea level NHN
muzzle at Frei-Weinheim from the left into the Rhine Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '45 "  N , 8 ° 1' 33"  E 49 ° 59 '45 "  N , 8 ° 1' 33"  E
Mouth height 80  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 239 m
Bottom slope 3.9 ‰
length 61 km
Catchment area 389.059 km²
Discharge at the Oberingelheim
A Eo gauge : 363 km²
Location: 5 km above the mouth 		MNQ 1975/2002
MQ 1975/2002
Mq 1975/2002
 		267 l / s
742 l / s
2 l / (s km²)
Left tributaries s. Section tributaries
Right tributaries s. Section tributaries
Reservoirs flowed through Alzeyer reservoir
Medium-sized cities Ingelheim am Rhein
Small towns Alzey , Nieder-Olm
Communities 15 local parishes

The Selz is a 61 km long, southern and left tributary of the Rhine and one of the main bodies of water in Rheinhessen . It flows in the Rheinhessen table and hill country in Rhineland-Palatinate through the Donnersbergkreis , the Alzey-Worms district and the Mainz-Bingen district .

With a discharge of only 2 l / (s · km²), the Selz , which flows in the slipstream of the North Palatinate Uplands , is one of the most arid rivers in Germany compared to the catchment area . The mean discharge is 0.77 m³ / s with a fluctuation range of 0.3 to 20 m³ / s.

geography

course

The Selz rises in the Palatinate on the western edge of the Alzeyer hill country , part of the Rheinhessen table and hill country . Your source is 319  m above sea level. NHN on the north-eastern edge of Orbis near the suture line running near the village to the northern Palatinate Bergland to the west on a field path in the extension of the residential street Weedeweg; it is signposted and freely accessible.

The Selz flows in a northeasterly direction for about 30 km. It initially passes Morschheim north and after 3 km the border between the northern Palatinate and Rheinhessen. After another 8 km stretch of river, after flowing through Mauchenheim , the confluence of the Steinbach and the first crossing under the federal motorway 63 , the Selz runs through the core of the small town of Alzey . There it first flows through the Alzeyer reservoir , then it runs through the village - mostly piped underground. Immediately afterwards it passes the federal motorway 61 .

Below Alzey, the Selz passes Schafhausen , after which the Weidas joins, Framersheim , Gau-Köngernheim and Gau-Odernheim , from where it turns a short distance to the northwest and then again to the northeast and takes in the Heimersheimer Bach . Then it passes or runs through Bechtolsheim and Friesenheim and, during a short northward section, Köngernheim , where the Goldbach joins. After about half of its walk through the Rheinhessen table and hill country, it bends towards the west-north-west near Selzen - after a U-shaped river bend.

Then the Selz Hahnheim and Wahlheimer Hof pass . Henceforth, it flows to the north and happens to run in the Saulheimer Bach , Nieder-Olm . Then, immediately after a bend to the west, it passes under the federal motorway 63 for the second and last time. Shortly afterwards, the Selz runs through Stadecken-Elsheim . Heading northwest it passes in Ingelheimer Grund Schwabenheim an der Selz , Bubenheim , Großwinternheim and Ingelheim am Rhein .

Then the Selz crosses under the Bundesautobahn 60 to flow 2.3 kilometers below it in the northern Ingelheim district of Frei-Weinheim (Ingelheim-Nord) at a height of about 80  m into the Rhine coming there from the east-northeast .

Tributaries

The following tributaries of the Selz are recorded with the river code number:

Surname page Length
[km] 		EZG
[km²] 		Mouth
on km 		Mouth   GKZ  
Four acre ditch right 0.54 0.92 01.43 northwest of Morschheim 252-112
Hahlbach Left 1.11 1.56 01.81 north-north-west of Morschheim 252-12
Gersborn Left 2.46 2.05 04.71 in Mauchenheim 252-14
Steinbach Left 3.38 12.060 08.05 east of Weinheim 252-16
Ditch Left 1.48 0.78 12.64 in the east of Alzey 252-18
Weidas right 11.070 36.810 15.00 below Alzeys 252-2
Framersheim Bach right 2.69 1.66 15.77 northwest of Framersheim 252-32
Haaggraben right 5.26 19.860 18.82 opposite Gau-Odernheims 252-34
Heimersheimer Bach Left 10.160 24.870 21.46 opposite Biebelnheims 252-4
Bach from Petersberg right 1.26 0.99 23.11 immediately below Bechtolsheims 252-5112
Dolgesheimer flood ditch right 3.96 7.08 24.54 below Bechtolsheims 252-512
Weinolsheimer flood ditch right 3.21 5.35 25.92 between Bechtolsheim and Friesenheim 252-52
Ditch Left 3.48 5.87 27.18 above Friesenheim 252-532
Dalheimer flood ditch right 4.95 9.95 28.62 in Friesenheim 252-54
Goldbach Left 6.24 14.850 29.65 at Undenheim 252-552
Maze right 0.32 2.18 30.21 Koengernheim 252-5532
Reizengalgenbach (Mörtelgraben) right 1.11 1.73 32.12 immediately above Selzens 252-554
Langenbacher Graben (barrage ditch) right 0.97 1.82 32.45 Selzen 252-55992
Sand ditch right 1.75 2.25 33.22 opposite Hahnheim 252-55994
Schornsheimer Graben Left 5.76 6.52 34.23 below Hahnheims 252-56
Bach from Wahlheimer Hof right 1.86 1.78 34.64 below Hahnheims 252-5712
Wilhelmsgrundbach (Udenheimer Graben) Left 4.24 5.35 35.09 below Hahnheims 252-572
Oil trench Left 0.88 0.47 36.42 south of Sorgeloch 252-5792
Udenheim Bach Left 3.02 3.34 37.20 east of Udenheim 252-58
Saulheim Bach Left 8.63 24.360 40.75 above Nieder-Olms 252-6
Haybach (Selz) right 3.21 8.31 43.39 below Nieder-Olms 252-72
Essenheim Bach right 2.44 5.07 44.65 southeast of Essenheim 252-74
Saubach Left 6.58 21.490 48.65 in Stadecken-Elsheim 252-8
Effengraben right 1.79 2.42 49.33 Stadecken-Elsheim 252-9
Engelstädter Bach (Engelstädter Graben) Left 2.96 5.41 51.30 above Schwabenheim 252-92
Schwabenheimer Bach (Schwabenheimer Graben) right 2.56 10.720 52.98 in Schwabenheim 252-94
Großwinternheimer Bach (moat Schloßbergstraße) right 1.54 2.14 55.02 Großwinterheim 252-96
Source in the sour earth Left 0.88 0.15 55.22 252-972
Source in the duck pond Left 0.88 0.70 55.74 252-976
Source in the Eschloch right 0.28 0.33 56.14 252-978
Bach von der Ingelheimer Döll (water rose) right 1.55 2.79 56.41 above Ingelheims 252-98
Source on the upper Rheinweg Left 0.27 0.36 56.79 above Ingelheims 252-99112
Source at the raft meadow right 0.14 1.02 56.94 above Ingelheims 252-99114
Source large meadow Left 0.22 0.26 59.14 Ingelheim South 252-99192
Coin pit right 3.60 8.02 62.25 below Ingelheims 252-992
Old sand pool right 2.82 0.55 62.51 below Ingelheims 252-994

Adjacent surveys

On its way through Rheinhessen, the Selz flows below Alzeys past various elevations on the right-hand side of the northern Rheinhessen table and hill country, which protrude 100 to 150 m above the level of the valley floodplain and some of which are part of the watershed between the Selz and the 10 bis 16 km east of the Rhine flowing past. This includes:

history

Written occupies the Selz as part of is Veronese donation , with the June 14, 983 Emperor Otto II. In Verona his Lord Chancellor , the Mainzer archbishop Willigis , the city Bingen and the associated landscape gave that "on this side of the Rhine from the bridge extends over the Selzbach to Heimbach, on the other side of the Rhine but from the point where the Elzbächlein flows into it to the little village of Caub. "

In 1909, the so-called Selztalstellung with Fort Muhl was built near Zornheim as an important line of defense and an advanced bulwark of the German Empire against France, as from here there is a view of more than 30 km over Rheinhessen.

On Good Friday, April 20, 1962, after heavy rainfall, the Selz near Mauchenheim overflowed the bank and flooded the lower part of the village. The house of the Anhäuser Mühle was under water up to the ceiling and had to be demolished. The road to Alzey was also so covered with mud that the course was no longer recognizable.

The Selz and its floodplains have been renatured piece by piece since 1992 . Wetlands were created, the banks flattened and fall trees introduced so that the Selz can find a new path. Many amphibians, water birds and insects can be seen again since then. One of the first renatured sections is between Hahnheim and Sörgenloch.

  • Source at Orbis

  • Spring with Kneipp basin and course plan

  • Enlarged progress plan

  • The first few meters are difficult.

  • Where the Selz flows into the Rhine ...

  • ... near Frei-Weinheim (Ingelheim-Nord)

Economical meaning

bridges

137 bridges cross the Selz; if distributed evenly, the watercourse could be crossed every 460 m. Most of the crossings are only intended for agricultural traffic on the dirt roads . Road bridges for general motor traffic are mainly in or near the places through which the water flows. The largest of these is the Weinheim Viaduct .

Selztal cycle path

From the source near Orbis through Alzey to Ingelheim am Rhein , a signposted hiking and cycling path , the Selztalweg or Selztal-Radweg , leads along the Selz . It runs partly on or next to the former “Amiche” and “Zuckerlottche” railway lines .

Mills

Most of the once 40 mills on the Selz are no longer in operation.

Use in culture

Alexandre Dumas the Elder has his novel The Council of the Magician set in the Selz region. In the introduction he describes the water in detail.

Original French text:

Introduction I - Le mont Tonnerre

Sur la rive gauche du Rhin, à quelques lieues de la ville impériale de Worms, vers l'endroit où prend sa source la petite rivière de Selz , commencent les premiers chaînons de plusieurs montagnes dont les croupes hérissées paraissent s'enfuir vers le nord, comme un troupeau de buffles effrayés qui disparaîtrait dans la brume. [...]

[…] Seule au milieu de ce silence, la petite rivière dont nous avons déjà parlé, le Selzbach , comme on l'appelle dans le pays, poursuit son cours mystérieux sous les sapins de la rive; et quoique ni jour ni nuit ne l'arrêtent, car il faut qu'elle se jette dans le Rhin qui est son éternité à elle, quoique rien ne l'arrête, disons-nous, le sable de son lit est si frais, ses roseaux sont si flexible, ses roches si bien ouatées de mousses et de saxifrages, que pas un de ses flots ne bruit de Morsheim, où elle commence, jusqu'à Freiwenheim, où elle finit. [...]

German translation:

Introduction I - The Donnersberg

Above the left bank of the Rhine, several miles away from the imperial city of Worms in the direction where the river Selz rises, the foothills of several mountain ranges begin, the rugged peaks of which seem to flee to the north like a herd of startled buffalo disappearing in the fog. [...]

[...] In the midst of this silence, the river, of which we have already spoken, the Selzbach , as it is called in this country, takes its mysterious course under the fir trees on its bank; and although there is no stopping day and night, because the Selz, as it is their eternal destination, has to pour into the Rhine, although nothing can stop them, as I said, the sand in its stream bed is so fresh, the reeds are so flexible , their rocks are so padded with moss and saxifrage that not one of their current noises can be heard as far as Morschheim, where it begins, or to Freiweinheim, where it ends. [...]

literature

  • Werner Lang: The Selz . In: Heimatbuch Landkreis Mainz . Printed by Wilhelm Traumüller, Oppenheim am Rhein 1967, p. 186-192 .

Web links

Commons : Selz (River)  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  2. ↑ a b c GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )
  3. ↑ Proof of catchment area and location of the gauge: RLP - Structure and Approval Directorate South ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.2 MB).
  4. ↑ Water hiking trails on the Selz , Ministry for Environment and Forests Mainz (PDF; 3.4 MB).
  5. ↑ 61 long kilometers to the mouth of the Rhine . In: Allgemeine Zeitung . Mainz February 17, 2007.
  6. ↑ With km the Selz- are km downstream from the source meant.
  7. ↑ Enemy visibility over 30 kilometers. Fort Muhl has a prominent position as the largest fortification in the Selzstellung. In: Rhein Main Presse . Mainz August 10, 2009.
  8. ↑ AM: History (s) of our homeland . In: News bulletin of the Alzey-Land association . April 19, 2012, p. 17.
  9. ↑ Selztal-Radweg , on wikivoyage.org.
  10. ↑ Selztalradweg (State Office for Surveying and Geographic Base Information Rhineland-Palatinate) on lvermgeo.rlp.de.
  11. ↑ Erich Hirsch: The Selz as a literary outflow . Orbis: setting for the novel "The Council of the Magi" by Alexandre Dumas. In: The Rhine Palatinate . Ludwigshafen July 11, 2001 (quoted at huegelland.net, accessed February 21, 2012).