Sensbach (Itter)

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Sensbach
Data
Water code DE : 238946
location Hessian-Franconian mountainous region

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Itter  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source Outskirts of Ober-Sensbach
49 ° 33 ′ 50 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 55 ″  E
Source height approx.  425  m above sea level NHN
muzzle At the Gaimühle from the right and west into the Itter coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 55 ″  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 30 ″  E 49 ° 29 ′ 55 ″  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 30 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  185  m above sea level NHN 
Height difference approx. 240 m
Bottom slope approx. 23 ‰
length 10.3 km
Catchment area 18.2 km²
Discharge
A Eo : 18.2 km²
at the mouth 		MQ
Mq
 		149.2 l / s
8.2 l / (s km²)

The Sensbach is a 10.3 kilometer long brook in the Hessian Odenwaldkreis , which flows into the Itter from the right and west at the Gaimühle residential area in the town of Eberbach in the Rhein-Neckar district of Baden-Württemberg .

The stream, whose lower course forms the border with Baden-Württemberg , gave the former Odenwald community Sensbachtal and previously the two districts of Ober-Sensbach and Unter-Sensbach its name.

geography

course

The Sensbach rises on the north-western outskirts of Ober-Sensbach, at the northern end of one of the north-south valley ranges typical of the central Odenwald, in which the corridor that accompanies it, of strongly fluctuating width, begins a little above its origin. Between the valley flank of the Sensbacher Höhe ( 557.8  m above sea level ) on the west side and an unnamed mountain ridge on its east side, it has dug its way south into the Buntsandstein-Odenwald . It flows through Ober-Sensbach, Unter-Sensbach and Hebstahl , which run along the bank in a loosened settlement association and below slopes that are partly open only on one side. South of Hebstahl, the previously wider valley becomes a narrow, wooded Kerbtal, the open corridor narrows to the narrow meadow and the river soon reaches between the Sensberg ( 480.1  m above sea level ) on the left and the Spitzberg ( 459.5  m above sea level ) opposite the national border. Here it then turns before the Imberg ( 395  m above sea level ) in the south to the east and thus turns the Sensberg ( 480.1  m above sea level ) into a valley. After a good two kilometers further east (as the crow flies ), the Sensbach joins the Itter at the Gaimühle residential area in the town of Eberbach from the right and west .

Catchment area

The Sensbach drains 18.2 km² of the middle Odenwald over the Itter southwards to the Neckar . Its catchment area stretches in the longest line from near Reußenkreuz southwards to the ridge of the Imberg for almost 9.5 km, across it it measures a little over 2.5 km at its widest point. In the north-west it borders on that of the Mümling- Oberlauf Walterbach , i.e. here on the Main catchment area, in the north-east briefly on that of the left Itter-Quellbach Schöllenbach , then behind the eastern watershed on the upper valley section the brook from the Rindengrund , then the brook compete from the Scheffestal , both of which run towards the Itter. The southern catchment area border runs towards the immediate catchment area of ​​the downward Itter itself, the western along its entire length towards the Gammelsbach , which flows into the Neckar after a southern course parallel to the Sensbach below the Itter.

traffic

Coming from Beerfelden to the source of Gammelsbach and Walterbach in the west, after a pass road over the Sensbacher Höhe, the state road L 3120 in Ober-Sensbach enters the valley and runs along the creek and through the valley locations to the confluence, where it joins the L. 2311 flows through Ittertal. Above the upper end of the valley, the district road K 39 starts on the L 3108 , which connects the Mümling directly with the Schöllenbachtal in a west-east direction via a mountain road, and then runs southwards in the valley to the state road in Ober-Sensbach. Both roads are not very busy, which is why the rural and remote Sensbachtal is quite quiet.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
  2. ↑ a b Height according to the contour line image on the background layer Topographic map on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
  3. ↑ Topographic map 1: 25,000
  4. ↑ Length according to the Lyer water network (AWGN) to: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
  5. ↑ Catchment area according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
  6. ↑ Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )