Stilt trench

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Stilt trench
Data
location Spessart

Bavaria

River system Rhine
Drain over Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source in the northwest of Rothenfels - Bergrothenfels
49 ° 54 ′ 13 ″  N , 9 ° 33 ′ 58 ″  E
Source height approx.  310  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in Rothenfels in the Main Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '29 "  N , 9 ° 35' 38"  E 49 ° 53 '29 "  N , 9 ° 35' 38"  E
Mouth height 142  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 168 m
Bottom slope approx. 58 ‰
length 2.9 km
Catchment area approx. 2.6 km²

The Stelzengraben is a creek almost three kilometers long in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart in Bavaria , which, coming from the north-west, flows into the Main from the right in the small town of Rothenfels .

geography

course

The stilt ditch rises in the sandstone Spessart in the natural area 141.3 Southeastern sandstone spessart in the corridor Rothellern at an altitude of about 310  m above sea level. NN a small pond a good kilometer northwest of the Rothenfels district of Bergrothenfels .

The stilt trench immediately disappears into the ground and then reappears on the surface a good 50 m further south-east. The strongly straightened and only intermittently water-bearing stream then flows about 100 m to the east-southeast, then bends to the south-southeast and, accompanied by a dirt road, runs a good 600 m through the fields and meadows of the Sterzwiese corridor . It now changes its direction and moves almost eastwards through grassland. It is strengthened from a spring a good 300 m downstream. The stream that carries water all year round from here feeds a small pond shortly afterwards and, lined with thick wood, runs in a straight line south-south-east through the Hofwiesen corridor . It now crosses under Herrnackerstraße and then almost 200 m later joins a left source branch that runs almost parallel to its last section. The Stelzengraben then enters the settlement area of ​​Bergrothenfels, crosses the Bergrothenfelser Straße , which curves around its downward Kerbtal valley, and then runs south-east past the Church of St. Josef the Workers and Rothenfels Castle .

After the lower town limit, the brook digs a small, narrow and wooded gorge, which runs approximately eastward, in which it changes to the district of the valley town of Rothenfels and at the end enters its locality, which is on the only small left valley widening of the Main around the Stelzengraben inlet and the lower slope of the main valley is built. There it then passes the Catholic parish church of the Assumption to the south and finally flows underground piped into the Lower Main Valley in the natural area 141.03 Lohr-Rothenfelser Main Valley at an altitude of 142  m above sea level. NN at about Main kilometer 185 about a kilometer below the barrage Rothfels from the right with the approaching flowing from the North Main .

Catchment area

It covers about 2.6 km² and extends about 3.2 km² from the Hagspitzen forest in the north-west to the mouth almost in the south-west; across it it is a maximum of about 1.1 km wide. The vast majority is located on the south-east from its highest point at about 373  m above sea level. NN in the Hagspitzen up to approx. 225  m above sea level. NN at the beginning of the Untertalkerbe in Bergrothenfels plunging plateau on the long estuary spur between the steeply deepened valleys of the Main in the east and the Hafenlohr in the southwest. The northern watershed runs in front of the Gaibach flowing towards the upward Main .

The catchment area is predominantly forest-free. The larger Bergrothenfels and part of the valley town of Rothenfels are the only settlements in it.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  2. ↑ water level of the River Main between barrages Rothfels and Lengfurt, consistently noted both on the Bayern Atlas in blue.
  3. ↑ a b Own measurement on the BayernAtlas.
  4. ↑ a b Horst Mernsching, Günter Wagner: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 152 Würzburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 5.3 MB)