Störzelbach (river)

	Störzelbach
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location	Bavaria, ; Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district
River system	Danube
Drain over	Altmühl → Danube → Black Sea
source	approx. 1.5 km north of Stopfenheim at the edge of the forest ; 49 ° 5 ′ 15 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 20 ″ E
Source height	over 470 m above sea level NN
muzzle	near Trommetsheim from the left into the Altmühl coordinates: 49 ° 2 '9 " N , 10 ° 51' 16" E 49 ° 2 '9 " N , 10 ° 51' 16" E;
Mouth height	little more than 410 m above sea level NN
Height difference	60 m
Bottom slope	6.6 ‰
length	9.1 km
Catchment area	approx. 21 km²
Communities	Ellingen , Alesheim

The Störzelbach is a creek about nine kilometers long in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , which flows into the middle Altmühl from the left and northeast in the district of Trommetsheim of the municipality of Alesheim .

course

The Störzelbach rises about one and a half kilometers north of the outskirts of the Ellingen parish village of Stopfenheim on the edge of the forest area Ossing at an altitude of over 470 m above sea level. NN . On the way south to Stopfenheim it first flows through a chain of ponds, then the large boiler pond on the northern edge of the village . There he takes the Schloßgartengraben from the left, at the lower end of the village then the Knöpfelbach approaching from Theilenhofen from the right. After a further southern run, it crosses over to the municipality of Alesheim and immediately crosses its small village Störzelbach . On first south-west, then west, it draws a wide arc around Alesheim itself, from which the Gaßwiesengraben runs south-west of the parish village . Continuing the direction of its inflow, it soon reaches the wide and sluggish course of the Störzelbachgraben , an alluvial ditch to the left of the Altmühl. Together with him, it flows into the Trommetsheimer residential area Fischerhaus from the left and finally northeast into the Altmühl .

Catchment area

The Störzelbach has an approximately crescent-shaped catchment area of about 21 km² with the hollow in the west, which extends from an over 500 m above sea level. Ridge reaching NN in the northwest between Theilenhofen and Rittern in an arc across the east to the southwest to the mouth. On its southeast side, the watershed runs over the isolated individual elevation of the Flüglinger Berg , which is up to 541.3 m above sea level. NN rises, everywhere else the terrain is below 500 m above sea level. NN .

Competitors on the other side of the watershed are the Walkerszeller Bach and the Vordere Troppelgraben in the northeast, the Hörleinsgraben and the Mittelbühlgraben in the east, and the Weimersheimer Bach in the southeast beyond the Flüglinger Berg ; these all drain into the Swabian Rezat and thus towards the Rhine. In the south, west and north-west, however, the competitors run to the Altmühl and thus towards the Danube. There are the Lüßgraben in the south, the Weihergraben , Weidachgraben and Wachsteiner Bach on the west side and the Dornhauser Mühlbach with its tributaries in the north-west.

The overwhelming majority is open land in which the fields dominate. Forest is only in the extreme north ( parish forest , Ossing and part of the Stopfenheimer woods ), on the slope of the Flüglinger Berg and to a lesser extent on the east side in Singetholz and Bergholz . Only the villages of Stopfenheim and Störzelbach are located on the run , on the edge of the catchment area each part of the villages Theilenhofen on the northern crescent tip, Alesheim on the southern hollow and Trommetsheim on the southern edge.

Tributaries and still waters

According to the BayernAtlas. Measured lengths and areas there. Heights adopted if specified there, otherwise interpolated according to the contour line image.

Origin of the Störzelbach about 1.5 km north of the outskirts of Stopfenheim on the southern edge of the Ossing forest at an altitude of over 470 m above sea level. NN . The stream initially flows south.

Western source branch, from the right and east, 0.3 km. Arises at the north-eastern tip of the isolated forest area Birkach at a similar height as the slightly longer north branch.
Inflow from the edge of the Osing , from the left and north, approx. 0.3 km.
Flows through at over 460 m above sea level. NN a chain of three ponds, approx. 0.5 ha, 1.1 ha and 0.2 ha. Then south run.
Flows through the Kesselweiher on the northern edge of Stopfenheim, approx. 15.0 ha.
Schloßgartengraben , from the left and northeast in the Kesselweiher or immediately afterwards, approx. 1.1 km. Mostly a dirt road ditch.
Knöpfelbach , from the right and northwest to below 450 m above sea level. NN at the end of Stopfenheim in front of the sports fields, approx. 3.1 km. Arises a little northeast of Theilenhofen at almost 500 m above sea level. NN .
Drains two ponds below 445 m above sea level. NN on the northern edge of the small Alesheimer village Störzelbach , approx. 0.2 ha and 0.1 ha.
Fürlachgraben , from the left and east to below 434 m above sea level. NN across from the main group of houses in Störzelbach, 1.1 km. Arises at about 455 m above sea level. NN at the northwest tip of the forest on and around the Flüglinger Berg and runs as a ditch next to the road to Störzelbach. From this inflow over 2 km southwest, then west bend.
Gaßwiesengraben , from the right and northeast to a maximum of 412 m above sea level. NN south-southwest of Alesheim at a bend in the field, approx. 0.9 km. Arises at over 415 m above sea level. NN on the outskirts of Alesheim.
Störzelgraben , from the right and northwest to 410.6 m above sea level. NN in the left Altmühl-Aue, at least 0.9 km. Is a very shallow floodplain ditch that takes up or continues further ditches above.
Ditch out of the Lohfeld , from the left and east close to the mouth, approx. 1.3 km. Arises on the northern edge of Trommetsheim at about 417 m above sea level. NN .

Mouth of the Störzelbach at just over 410 m above sea level. NN at the Fischerhaus residential area in the Trommetsheim district of Alesheim from the left and northeast into the middle Altmühl .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c According to the contour line image on the BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes ).
↑ The BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information ) marks a high point in the Altmühl noticeably above and below the mouth of the Störzelbach with the blue lettering 410.7 m , but the confluence of Störzelbach and Störzelgraben with 410.6 m .
↑ ^a ^b Measured on the BayernAtlas.
↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )

Web links

Course of the Störzelgraben in the Bavaria Atlas

[BA-HLB-1] According to the contour line image on the BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes ).

[BA-Cave-Mündung-2] The BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information ) marks a high point in the Altmühl noticeably above and below the mouth of the Störzelbach with the blue lettering 410.7 m , but the confluence of Störzelbach and Störzelgraben with 410.6 m .

[BA-gem-3] Measured on the BayernAtlas.

[DE-BY_BV-4] Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )