Steinbach (Enz)

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Steinbach
The Steinbach am Schlossgarten in Freudental towards the west

The Steinbach am Schlossgarten in Freudental towards the west

Data
Water code DE : 238492
location Stromberg

Neckar basin

Baden-Württemberg

River system Rhine
Drain over Enz  → Neckar  → Rhine  → North Sea
source west-northwest of Freudental
49 ° 1 ′ 24 ″  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 42 ″  E
Source height 384  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in Besigheim in the Enz Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '55 "  N , 9 ° 8' 26"  E 48 ° 59 '55 "  N , 9 ° 8' 26"  E
Mouth height approx.  174  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 210 m
Bottom slope approx. 22 ‰
length 9.7 km
Catchment area 11.649 km²

The Steinbach is a nearly ten kilometer long, steadily east-southeast running stream in the Baden-Württemberg district of Ludwigsburg . In Besigheim it flows into the lowest Enz from the left . The brook is one of the second order waters.

geography

course

The brook arises about 2.5 km west-northwest of Freudental and about 100 m southeast of the Pfeifferhütte on the wooded Großer Saukopf at an altitude of 384  m above sea level. NHN . Flowing first of all in a south-easterly direction, the Steinbach soon reaches the border with the Neckar basin and, after a stretch of about 2.5 km, the western outskirts of Freudental.

After crossing the village past the Grävenitz Castle with its three park ponds, which together measure around 0.7 hectares, the brook turns more eastward and after another 2.6 km, accompanied by a tree gallery, reaches the outskirts of Löchgau .

The Steinbach in Löchgau in front of the western entrance of the Verdolung

In Löchgau the brook runs around 500 m underground in a canal under and along Besigheimer Straße. To the east of Löchgau, the brook flows in a valley with vineyards on the sun-exposed left slope towards Besigheim . After entering the settlement area, the stream disappears in a canal, crosses under the Stuttgart-Würzburg railway line and only comes back to light shortly before it flows into the Enz. The mouth is a little below the bridge of the main road from the old town on the other side of the river over at a height of about 174  m above sea level. NHN . With a height difference of 210 m, the mean bed slope is about 22 ‰.

The Steinbach has only short or inconsistent tributaries. Even his own upper reaches often run dry for the first half kilometer.

The upper reaches of Steinbach is a fine material rich, calcareous means mountain of Keuper ( river type 6_K), from the eastern outskirts of Lochgau a coarse substrate rich, calcareous means mountain stream (river type 7).

Catchment area

The catchment area, which extends as the crow flies from the Pfeifferhütte east-southeast to the mouth, is just over two kilometers wide and 11.6 km² in size. In the upper area, roughly up to the tree line in front of Freudental, it is naturally in the easternmost Stromberg , the remaining part in the lower area of ​​the Metterplatte of the adjoining Neckar basin .

Beyond the watershed left the running of the quite close competes Baumbach for Neckar in Walheim shortly after Zumündung der Enz Behind the other watershed is the larger drainage area of. Metter ; More direct competitors are their left tributaries Kirbach in the area of ​​the Steinbach upper reaches and Altenbach on its middle reaches. The ridge opposite these competitors rises in the Stromberg up to a little over 435  m above sea level. NHN on the Hohe Reute is higher than that on the northern catchment area border to Baumbach.

Protected areas

Down to the settlement boundary of Löchgau, the catchment area mainly belongs to the nature reserve foothills of the Stromberg around Bönnigheim, Erligheim, Freudental, Löchgau and Kleinsachsenheim . It is located in the Stromberg-Heuchelberg Nature Park as far as below Freudental . The 2.4 km² water protection area Ochsenweide, Aufwiesen begins at the upper end of the upper Steinbach Valley and ends on the outskirts of Freudental . After the tree line, the one and a half hectare Aufwiesen wetland is a natural monument in front of Freudental .

Web links

Commons : Steinbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
  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. ^ Friedrich Huttenlocher , Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 170 Stuttgart. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1949, revised 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
  4. ↑ Protected areas according to the relevant layers on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )