Steinbach (Main, Würzburg)

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	Data
location	Germany Bavaria Lower Franconia Würzburg district Independent city of Würzburg
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Main → Rhine → North Sea
source	on the northern slope of the Büchelberg south of Höchberg ; 49 ° 45 '47 " N , 9 ° 51' 55" E
Source height	311 m above sea level NHN
muzzle	in Würzburg - Steinbachtal in the Main Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '35 " N , 9 ° 55' 54" E 49 ° 46 '35 " N , 9 ° 55' 54" E;
Mouth height	168.5 m above sea level NHN
Height difference	142.5 m
Bottom slope	27 ‰
length	5.3 km
Catchment area	14 km²

The Steinbach is a five-kilometer long stream in Lower Franconia that flows into the Main from the left when coming from the west .

geography

course

The Steinbach is a body of water in the southwestern Main Triangle on the southern edge of the Marktheidenfelder Platte to the neighboring natural area Ochsenfurter Gau and Gollachgau and most recently also in the Würzburg basin of the Middle Main Valley . It arises south of Markt Höchberg at an altitude of 311 m above sea level. NN on the edge of the field to the Büchelberg in the south ( 341.4 m above sea level ), which is in the community-free Guttenberger forest .

The Steinbach initially flows, accompanied by the Tannenrainstrasse , about eight hundred meters east-northeast along the forest beach along the municipal boundary to the Guttenberg forest. Then he changes over to Würzburg and there passes the Lochgrabensiedlung on its southern edge. Still on the edge of the forest and now on the border between Würzburg and the community-free forest area, it gradually moves eastward on the southern edge of the settlement of the Würzburg district of Steinbachtal through the Hintere Steinbachtal .

At the southern foot of the Roßberg slope and southwest of a former brickworks that was donated to the Congregation of the Sisters of the Redeemer , it feeds at about 225 m above sea level. NN the Göckersgraben coming from the south-southwest , which contributes almost half of the entire catchment area. From there to the mouth, the stream runs between Steinbachtal and the neighboring Würzburg district of Heidingsfeld on the south bank, where there is still forest all the way to the edge of the Main valley.

The Steinbach, which is now clearly deepened, between the wooded northern slope of the Unglücksberg ( 316.9 m above sea level ) on the right and the southern slope of the Nikolausberg ( 359.3 m above sea level ) on the left, which is built on with houses, moves about four hundred meters towards the northeast and then takes from the left the Guggelesgraben , whose almost kilometer-long valley incision in the upper section in the north-northeast is also filled with forest. After this inflow, the Steinbach changes to the east and is strengthened shortly afterwards at the Lukaskirche from the same side by a flood ditch from the Annaschlucht .

The Steinbach flows a further eight hundred meters eastwards, then gradually turns to the east-northeast, enters the Würzburg basin and crosses under Mergentheimer Strasse on the edge of the floodplain. After a short run across the flat floodplain between a meadow above with a series of drinking water fountains along the course of the river and a sports facility below, it finally flows into the Steinbachtal district and opposite the Sanderau district at Sebastian-Kneipp-Steg from the left into the Main flowing in from the southeast .

Tributaries

Göckersgraben ( right ), 2.7 km and 6.3 km²
Guggelesgraben ( left ), 0.9 km and 0.8 km²

character

The Steinbach is a body of water III. Order and quickly dries up after rain events.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
↑ water level of the River Main between barrages Randersacker and Würzburg, consistently noted both on the Bayern Atlas in blue.
↑ Own measurement on the BayernAtlas
↑ ^a ^b ^c The rivers in Würzburg
^ Horst Mernsching, Günter Wagner: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 152 Würzburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 5.3 MB)
^ History of Steinbachtal
↑ Biotopes in the city

[DE-BY_BV-1] Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )

[Stauziel-Main-2] water level of the River Main between barrages Randersacker and Würzburg, consistently noted both on the Bayern Atlas in blue.

[3] Own measurement on the BayernAtlas

[FließgewässerWürzbburg-4] The rivers in Würzburg

[BfL-152-5] Horst Mernsching, Günter Wagner: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 152 Würzburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 5.3 MB)

[6] History of Steinbachtal

[Naturschutz-Annaschlucht-7] Biotopes in the city