Steinach (Neckar, Neckarsteinach)

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Steinach
The Steinach in Neckarsteinach

The Steinach in Neckarsteinach

Data
Water code DE : 238978
location Odenwald

Hesse

Baden-Württemberg

Hesse

River system Rhine
Drain over Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source north of Ober-Abtsteinach
49 ° 32 ′ 57 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 58 ″  E
Source height approx.  490  m above sea level NHN
muzzle from the right in Neckarsteinach in the Neckar Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '20 "  N , 8 ° 50' 21"  E 49 ° 24 '20 "  N , 8 ° 50' 21"  E
Mouth height 111.7  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 378.3 m
Bottom slope approx. 17 ‰
length 22.2 km
Catchment area 69.53 km²

The Steinach is an approximately 22 km long river in southern Hesse and northern Baden-Württemberg , which flows south through the Odenwald and flows into the Neckar from the right at Neckarsteinach .

geography

course

The Steinach rises in the southeastern part of the Hessian district Bergstrasse a few hundred meters north of Ober-Abtsteinach in the area of ​​a small, unwooded plateau. It almost always flows south.

In a very flat and wide valley, it first passes Ober-, then Unter-Abtsteinach , until after about four and a half kilometers of river length the valley deepens and forest slopes come closer to the river.

It crosses over to Baden-Württemberg in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis , after about 10 km it reaches the village Heiligkreuzsteinach and takes on the Eiterbach from the left. It continues in the deep, wide and open valley to the long-drawn out Schönau district of Altneudorf, still on the middle course; At the entrance to the village, the Hilsbach coming from Wilhelmsfeld joins from the right . After a little over 16 km, it crosses Schönau , where water is fed into a valley spider by the Schafbach from the right and the Greiner Bach from the left.

After more than 18 km, the Steinach passes the Schönau district of Lindenbach, then turns abruptly to the east for the short remainder of its course in the narrower floodplain, which is now overlooked by the heights on both sides by more than 250 m, and thus back to Hesse in the district Mountain road. At its mouth, Neckarsteinach , it finally flows into the Neckar after 22.2 km, almost in the opposite direction .

Catchment area

The hydrological catchment area covers almost 70 km²; it borders in the north on that of the Weschnitz , in the east on that of the Laxbach , in the south on that of the receiving Neckar and smaller tributaries from it, in the west on that of the Kanzelbach and finally that of the Weschnitz again.

The communities of Abtsteinach (Hesse), Heiligkreuzsteinach , Schönau (both Baden-Württemberg) and Neckarsteinach (again Hesse) have a share in the valley .

Tributaries and still waters

List of tributaries and RiverIcon-SmallLake.svglakes from source to mouth. The length of the water, the area of ​​the lake, the catchment area and the altitude are usually based on the corresponding layers on the LUBW's online map. Other sources for the information are noted.

Source of the Steinach at about 490  m above sea level. NHN about 200 meters north of the Ober-Abtsteinach cemetery on the northern edge of the village. The Steinach flows first and foremost to the southeast.

Tributaries of the Steinach, shown on a stone in Neckarsteinach
  • (Stream through the Grummiwiese ), from the right and west to about 470  m above sea level. NHN next to the K 18 at the first houses in Ober-Abtsteinach, approx. 0.5 km and approx. 0.1 km². Arises at about 495  m above sea level. NHN between the northern edge of the village and the cemetery. From here the Steinach flows south for a long time.
  • (Stream through the Hofwiesen ), from the left and east to about 458  m above sea level. NHN in Ober-Abtsteinach near the junction of Hardbergstrasse from Steinachstrasse, approx. 0.5 km and approx. 0.3 km². Rises at about 487  m above sea level. NHN at the sawmill at the northwest foot of the Hardberg ( 593.1  m above sea level ).
  • (Brook from the bush ), from the left and northeast to about 439  m above sea level. NHN shortly before Unter-Abtsteinach , approx. 0.6 km and 0.2 km². Arises below 485  m above sea level. NHN at the west foot of the Hardberg in the incipient hillside forest a little east of Ober-Abtsteinacher Straße Im Busch .
  • (Stream through the width meadow ), from the left and east-northeast to about 408  m above sea level. NHN on the western edge of Unter-Abtsteinach near the northern end of the ring road, 1.4 km and 1.0 km². Arises at about 535  m above sea level. NHN in the Zentwald south-southwest of the Hardberg summit.
  • (Bach from the Klingenwiese ), from the left and east-southeast to less than 400  m above sea level. NHN near the confluence of the Eiterbacher Weg in the Unter-Abtsteinacher Hauptstraße, approx. 0.7 km and approx. 0.7 km². Arises at about 450  m above sea level. NHN on the edge of the Klingenwiese to the hillside forest at the northwest foot of the Stiefelhöhe ( 584  m above sea level ).
  • (Bach from the Strobertsklingen ), from the left and northeast to about 371  m above sea level. NHN just before the state border with Baden-Württemberg, 0.9 km and 0.7 km². Arises at about 438  m above sea level. NHN about 0.4 km west of the Stiefelhütte on the upper southwest slope of the Stiefelshöhe.
  • Lenzenbach , from the right and northwest to about 291  m above sea level. NHN about 0.6 km northeast of Heiligkreuzsteinach - Vorderheubach at the junction of the K 4122 to Heiligkreuzsteinach- Lampenhain from the valley road L 535, 2.3 km and 3.3 km². Arises at about 408  m above sea level. NHN in Heiligkreuzsteinach- Bärsbach .
    From this tributary, the Steinach flows approximately southeast.
  • Heubach , from the right and at about 270  m above sea level. NHN below the spur of the Waldeck ruins on the right and the Heiligkreuzsteinach settlement Hohenöd on the left, 1.6 km and 1.2 km². Arises at about 365  m above sea level. NHN about 0.2 km west of Heiligkreuzsteinach- Hinterheubach at the eastern foot of the Röschberg ( 533.9  m above sea level ).
  • Eiterbach , from the left and north to over 240  m above sea level. NHN at the eastern edge of Heiligkreuzsteinach, 9.0 km and 14.2 km². Arises at about 465  m above sea level. NHN in the soft area of Wald-Michelbach - Siedelsbrunn . The Steinach itself is only 9.8 km long and has a catchment area of ​​15.4 km², so that the Eiterbach is an almost equally important left upper course of the Steinach.
    After that the Steinach flows further south almost in the direction of the Eiterbach.
  • Rödelsgraben , from the right and northwest to about 231  m above sea level. NHN below the settlement along Hüttengasse on the southern edge of Heiligkreuzsteinach, 0.8 km and approx. 0.4 km². The highest spring rises above the settlement at about 325  m above sea level. NHN on the eastern slope of the Lockersberg ( 470.4  m above sea level ).
    From here the Steinach flows roughly south-south-east.
  • RiverIcon-SmallLake.svg Feeds almost a dozen ponds before and after the mouth of the previous one, a total of 0.8 ha.
  • Hilsbach , from the right and northwest to about 214  m above sea level. NHN in the upper village of Schönau- Altneudorf, 3.9 km and 6.9 km². Arises at about 390  m above sea level. NHN on the eastern edge of the Wilhelmsfeld settlement area to the Centwald near Zinken Pottaschenloch .
  • Klipfelsbach , from the left and east to about 197  m above sea level. NHN in Schönau-Altneudorfer Unterdorf , 1.0 km and approx. 1.3 km². Rises at about 300  m above sea level. NHN on the eastern edge of the settlement to the hillside forest at the west foot of an elevation in the Gewann Sall (approx. 505  m above sea level ).
  • Mönchgraben , from the left and east to about 196  m above sea level. NHN immediately after the previous one still in place, 0.5 km and approx. 0.5 km². Rises at about 270  m above sea level. NHN in a valley below the Mönchbrunnen .
  • Schafbach , from the right and west-northwest to a little over 170  m above sea level. NHN in Schönau near the Wiesenweg, approx. 3.5 km (with the left upper course Hasselbach, which rises at about 390  m above sea level, 4.0 km.) And 6.8 km². Arises at about 340  m above sea level. NHN in the Kameralwald west of the Schönauer Landheim Lessing School.
  • Greiner Bach , from the left and northeast to just under 170  m above sea level. NHN little after the previous one, 3.7 km and 7.2 km². Arises at about 343  m above sea level. NHN on the southern edge of Neckarsteinach - Grein .
  • RiverIcon-SmallLake.svg Immediately afterwards feeds a pond opposite Schönau, 0.3 ha.
  • Rittersbach , from the left and southeast to about 166  m above sea level. NHN next to the Talstraße at the Schönau industrial zone in the Talaue, 1.0 km and approx. 1.1 km². Rises at about 280  m above sea level. NHN at the northern drop of the Hohen Darsberg ( 445  m above sea level ).
  • Lindenbach , from the right and northeast to about 152  m above sea level. NHN near Schönau- Lindenbach , but again on Hessian territory, 1.5 km and approx. 1.1 km². Rises at about 350  m above sea level. NHN at the southeast slope of the ox camp ( 441.4  m above sea level ).
    A little below the course bends to the left and the Steinach then runs approximately east-southeast to the edge of the Neckarsteinach town center.

Mouth of the Steinach from the right and finally north-northwest to 111.7  m above sea level. NHN in Neckarsteinach in the lower Neckar running northwest here . The stream here is 22.2 km long and has a catchment area of ​​69.5 km² behind it.

Water quality

As of 2010, the Steinach is classified in ecological status class II (good) in the water quality module.

history

The Steinach used to be one of the most important rafts on the Neckar. It drove the five Neckarsteinach mills that produced Gerberlohe via a mill ditch .

In the middle of the 18th century river pearl mussels were introduced into the Steinach , which were obtained from the Bavarian Forest, where there are several bodies of water still called Perlbach today . It was the beginning of successful pearl mussel farming. The species needs cold, lime and especially nutrient-poor water, which is why the stream must have had very clean water back then. This changed with the beginning of industrialization, the last mussel fishing in 1965 yielded 14 pearls, after which the pearl mussel became completely extinct in the water.

traffic

State road  535 follows the river at a short distance for almost its entire length ; On the upper reaches, some state roads lead from the side into the south-facing valley, for example in Ober-Abtsteinach the L 3408 from the west and the L 535 from the east, in Unter-Abtsteinach the L 3257 from the west through the Gorxheimer Tal , in Altneudorf, from the west from Schriesheim Coming via Wilhelmsfeld, the L 536. Two sack roads open up smaller side valleys (Eiterbachtal, Schafbachtal), some low-ranking roads connect over partly steep climbs with hilltop settlements and the larger neighboring valleys. In the lower reaches, which are cut deeper, they are partially absent due to the terrain profile and the uninhabited lateral forest heights.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Klausing: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 151 Darmstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Josef Schmithüsen : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 161 Karlsruhe. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952. →  Online map (PDF; 5.1 MB)
  3. ↑ 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 )
  4. ↑ a b Storage target in the underwater of the Neckarsteinacher Neckar double lock.
  5. ↑ a b c Length according to the water network layer ( AWGN ) of the LUBW's online map server.
  6. ↑ a b c Catchment area added up from the sub-catchment areas according to the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) of the LUBW's online map server.
  7. ↑ Lake area according to the layer standing waters of the LUBW's online map server.
  8. ↑ Catchment area according to the basic catchment area (AWGN) layer of the LUBW's online map server.
  9. ↑ a b c d Length measured on the background layer of the topographic map of the LUBW's online map server.
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map of the online map server of the LUBW.
  11. ↑ The inflow is labeled Lenzenbach on the topographic map background layer of the LUBW's online map server , but the water network layer (AWGN) names it Lenzbach .
  12. ↑ Sum of the lake areas according to the layer standing waters of the LUBW's online map server.
  13. ↑ Bio-quality map of the Hesse streams 2010 (PDF, 6.0 MB) from the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology.
  14. ↑ Entry on the river pearl mussel on the homepage of the State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg ( Memento from October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Information sign near the mouth in Neckarsteinach.

literature

  • Topographic maps 1: 25,000 Hesse and Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 6419 Beerfelden (catchment area only), No. 6418 Weinheim, No. 6518 Heidelberg North and No. 6519 Eberbach

Web links

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