Sulzach

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Sulzach
Data
Water code EN : 1182
location Swiss franc amount

Middle Franconian basin

Bavaria

River system Danube
Drain over Wörnitz  → Danube  → Black Sea
source southeast of Schillingsfürst
49 ° 16 ′ 55 ″  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 37 ″  E
Source height approx.  516  m above sea level NHN
muzzle near Wittelshofen in the Wörnitz coordinates: 49 ° 3 '34 "  N , 10 ° 29' 8"  E 49 ° 3 '34 "  N , 10 ° 29' 8"  E
Mouth height approx.  426  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 90 m
Bottom slope approx. 2.2 ‰
length 41.5 km
Catchment area 191.25 km²

The Sulzach is a 41 km long left tributary of the Wörnitz in the Bavarian district of Ansbach . Measured in terms of its length, it is the largest, measured in terms of its sub-catchment area, the second largest tributary of the Wörnitz and, after a total of approximately south-south-east, it flows into Wittelshofen .

Surname

The river used to be called Sulz and gave its name to the district of Kloster Sulz in the Dombühl market . The small town of Sulzach with around 130 inhabitants, a district of the municipality of Dürrwangen with an exactly homonymous name today, is located further down the valley on the bank.

geography

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The Sulzach rises on the Frankenhöhe less than a kilometer southeast of the outskirts of Schillingsfürst at a forest peak in the corridor mark Kothenbach at about 516  m above sea level. NHN . About 200 m below its uppermost course, which can be seen in the corridor on the edge of the wood , a map shows a source point called Sulzachquelle at about 502  m above sea level. NHN a. The source is only about one and a half kilometers east of the source of the Wörnitz, into which the Sulzach flows after more than 41 kilometers.

Upper course Feuchtwangen

The Sulzach then runs to the southeast and after a few hundred meters enters the forest for about two kilometers, where the area of ​​the municipality of Dombühl begins. After him, it flows permanently in an open landscape, in a valley basin, which is accompanied on the left and right by wooded elevations, not very winding and initially densely accompanied by woody banks. It feeds a pond of around 1.7 hectares in the Ziegelhaus district of Dombühl and then crosses the settlement. Soon the district of Kloster Sulz follows on the left bank , after which the bank vegetation becomes sparser and the railway line Nuremberg – Crailsheim crosses it. From here on, it is accompanied by the Dombühl – Nördlingen railway line that branches off to the right above the immediate valley trough, but on which there is hardly any traffic. In the meantime, the relatively flat further valley basin is already over two kilometers wide, the river runs along its eastern edge and passes the districts of Bortenberg and Baimhofen built on the left edge of the hill .

Then he cuts off an unsettled western tip of the Auracher district on his right. Here the A 6 crosses the immediate valley basin on a tree-planted broad embankment, at the Aurach village of Vehlberg near the left bank it immediately takes on the Auwiesengraben from the same side .

The Sulzach then flows into the extensive urban area of Feuchtwangen . While the watercourse from Sulz Abbey up to this point often resembled a ditch that is often free from vegetation, in future it will often lie in wild loops, for example from the right-hand mouth of the long Rödenweiler Mühlbach near the eponymous village of Rödenweiler . The next settlement, this time on the left directly on the bank, is Neidlingen . After that, after it had separated the villages of Archshofen and Dorfgütingen on the right hill, the longer Gutenbach flows into it again. Again, the flow reloaded into very looped meadows meander .

A little later it flows past the hamlet of Bonlanden , which borders hard on the left bank, opposite which the Mühlgraben , which tapers from Gehrenberg, opens. From here the B 25 follows at a distance on the right hills of the Sulzach. About two kilometers further to the south, the Bieberbach reaches the small river in an analogous position against the Leiperzell, which is also on the left bank . At Poppenweiler on the east bank, where the Ransbach flows in from the west , a group of six wastelands begins on both sides of the run up to the Jungshof , after which the state road 1066 crosses the run, the north bypass for the Feuchtwangen that soon follows.

Middle course to Leitenbach near Langenfurth-Oberkemmathen

This largest place on the Sulzachlauf with the old town on the left at the foot of the slope and in the narrow left and the commercial zones in the wider and flatter right floodplain, the Sulzach river crosses almost entirely in an undeveloped strip of land, except in the area of ​​the bridge of Untere Torstraße, which runs from the west Sulzach spans towards the old town. In the downward part of the city, state road 2222 and a spange from the B 25, which then turns south into the Wörnitz valley, cross the Sulzach over newer bridges on the southern edge of the settlement.

Below the fulling mill opposite the village Aich cell on the right side where the rollover Bach tapers, both still in the precincts of Feuchtwangen, a section where the river passes by in a rural landscape only sporadic small settlements and mill sites starts again. First it flows through between Koppenbach on the left and Herrnschallbach on the right foot of the slope and then takes on the Schönbach from the left . At the Hainmühle , the district road AN 41 enters the left Aue, opposite is Zehdorf on the right edge hills. After that, the previously much wider strip of land between the forest edges on both sides of the accompanying hills narrows to a width of just over one and a half kilometers; here the Sulzach comes between the extensive forest areas of Dentleiner Forest in the east and Frickinger Forest in the west.

After the village of Krapfenau in the left Aue, opposite the Krapfenauer Mühle in the west, the area of ​​the market Dürrwangen begins - initially only on the west side, the first place is the village of Sulzach on a small right tributary. Then the long Lotterbach flows past the last Feuchtwangen village, Weikersdorf, on the downward spur of the mouth . The extensive market village of Dürrwangen itself is on the right bank, followed by the associated Trendelmühle . From Dürrwangen the Sulzach runs for about three kilometers (as the crow flies) almost to the east, past a few wastelands and a hamlet on the edge of the flat floodplain. From this small place, the Dürrwangener Witzmannsmühle , the state road St 2220 crosses the valley and river to the northeast. After her the parish of Langfurth begins on the left . Immediately afterwards, two longer tributaries converge, first from the right and west the Hühnerbächlein , then from the left the Leitenbach , also called Neumühlbach , whose sources are in the north near Dentlein . At this inflow just before the village of Oberkemmathen , both banks are Langfurthisch and the Sulzach abruptly bends in the direction of its inflow to the southeast.

Lower course

It first passes Oberkemmathen, which is on the left bank and lower slope. Immediately after the village, the Langfurth Mühlgraben flows from the left. After it has passed the last parish village of Dorfkemmathen in the valley in an analogous position on the right bank, the Kritzenbach feeds it again from the left. The next side stream Hochwiesgraben , on the other hand, reaches it from the west through the Wittelshofen church village of Untermichelbach , just before entering the municipality's capital, Wittelshofen itself, the Grüber Bach flows into the north-northeast as the last larger one. Its course passes the west foot of the Jura - Zeugenberg Hesselberg ( 689  m above sea level ), on the lower flat slope of which newer settlement parts of the main town are built, while the old town center, connected by the bridge of the state road St 2218, is opposite on the equally flat estuary the Sulzach stands against the upper Wörnitz. At the downstream end of the village the Sulzach flows from the left and at about 426  m above sea level. NHN into the middle Wörnitz , which flows in here from the southwest , which then initially bends in the direction of its largest inflow.

Data of the run

The Sulzach is 41.5 km long and flows just 90 meters below its origin. It thus has a very small mean bed gradient of only around 0.2 ‰, which, like its south-south-east running direction on a large scale, identifies it as a consistent river, i.e. flowing roughly in the direction of the layers falling towards the Danube, which it and its neighboring rivers Wörnitz in the west and Wieseth or Altmühl in the east.

Catchment area

The catchment area of ​​the Sulzach, which is nowhere only 9 km wide and almost 30 km long, extends from Schillingsfürst in the north-northwest to Wittelshofen in the south-southeast, covers around 191 km² and borders on the Altmühl in the north and east . Soon the immediate competitor here is its right tributary Wieseth , at the very end there are shorter northern tributaries to the lower Wörnitz on this side. On the right side of the Sulzach the watershed runs from south to north towards the upper Wörnitz; their own source is only a good kilometer away from the source of the Sulzbach stream, the rivers are nowhere more than eight kilometers apart and often run almost parallel to the south-southeast. In the very north in Schillingsfürst there is also the Tauber area of ​​influence , very briefly beyond the watershed , making this part of the European main watershed between the rivers on this side across the Danube into the Black Sea and the rivers across the Rhine to the North Sea.

Tributaries

Performed from the source to the mouth. Lengths measured on the BayernAtlas or on LUBW-FG10. Because of the frequent pond flows in the Sulzach tributaries, greater inaccuracy of the process than usual is to be expected.

Upper course to Feuchtwangen

Middle course to Leitenbach near Langenfurth-Oberkemmathen

  • Dettenbach , from the right on the northern edge of the industrial area of ​​Feuchtwangen, approx. 2.1 km. Originates south of the Rothbergholz and west of Feuchtwangen- Sommerau .
  • Schleifbach , from the right at the Schleifmühle and the substation in the south-western part of Feuchtwangen, approx. 2.3 km. Originates south of Feuchtwangen- Esbach .
  • Überlagbach , from the right at Feuchtwangen- Aichenzell opposite the Feuchtwanger fulling mill , approx. 3.2 km. Originates near Feuchtwangen- Höfstetten and passes the overturning mill .
  • Schönbach , from the left at Feuchtwangen-Koppenschallbach at 441  m above sea level. NHN , approx. 7.6 km. Length together with its longer left upper course Aichabach , which itself reaches approx. 4.5 km. Its a little shorter right desert stream brings it to about 3.9 km. The Aichachbach arises north of Steinbach on the edge of the AN 37.
  • Geigersklingengraben , shortly afterwards from the right, approx. 2.5 km. Arises at the entrance to the forest of the B km south of Feuchtwangen- Kaltenbronn .
  • Weitersgraben , shortly after crossing Feuchtwangen- Zehdorf from the right , approx. 1.6 km. Arises about 600 meters east-northeast of Feuchtwangen- Mögersbronn on the edge of Schelmholz .
  • Hirtenbach , from the left at Feuchtwangen-Krapfenau, approx. 2.4 km. Arises about one kilometer north-northeast of Feuchtwangen- Bernau in Birkenfeld .
  • Jägersbrünnlein , from the right at the Krapfenauer Mühle , approx. 3.0 km. Arises less than a kilometer south of Mögersbronn on the edge of the Muckenschlagholz forest .
  • Wegweiherbach , from the right through Dürrwangen - Sulzach , approx. 2.1 km. Arises less than a kilometer west-northwest of Dürrwangen- Flinsberg in the southern Frickinger Forest .
  • Lotterbach , near Feuchtwangen- Weikersdorf from the left to 437.2  m above sea level. NHN , approx. 5.5 km. Arises at the Neuweiher in a northern tip of the Feuchtwanger municipality surrounded by the Upper Dentleiner Forest .
  • Weihergraben , from the right on the northern outskirts of Dürrwangen at 436.5  m above sea level. NHN , approx. 1.5 km. Originates east of Flinsberg in the Tannenbusch .
  • Seeholzgraben , from the left at the Angerhof von Dentlein am Forst , approx. 2.6 km. Flows from the lake pond north of the Dürrwanger Pfaffenfeld .
  • Hühnerbächlein , from right after passing the Dürrwanger Lohmühle , approx. 6.2 km. Created at the forest sports field west of Flinsberg.
  • Leitenbach , on the lower reaches of Neumühlbach , from the left near Langfurth -Oberkemmathen, approx. 6.4 km. Arises as Erlbach (right upper course) near the sports field of Dentlein am Forst im Wald and is partly named after this source stream. On the lower reaches after passing the Neumühlweiher it is called Neumühlbach .

Lower course from the Leitenbach to the mouth in Wittelshofen

  • Hutweihergraben , from the right at the Oberkemmathener road bridge into the sand field , approx. 2.6 km. Arises between Dürrwangen- Haslach and the Zankenberg in the south in the forest.
  • Langfurther Mühlgraben , from the left between Oberkemmathen and the Langfurther sewage treatment plant, approx. 4.5–4.7 km. Arises from the confluence of the Grundbach (left) and Kesselbach (right) source streams, which are roughly the same length, near Langfurth- Stöckau . Length including the longer upper reaches.
  • Schrumbach , from the right near the Mühlgasse of Langfurth- Dorfkemmathen , approx. 2.1 km. Arises as Himmelreithbach (left upper course) about 300 m northwest of the Dinkelsbühler Rosenhof .
  • Grundbach , one hundred meters from the left, approx. 1.8 km. Arises on the right opposite the inlet of the Langfurth Mühlgraben in the Sulzachaue in the sand field and is carried out shortly before the Sulzachbrücke from Dorfkemmathen under the river to the left outer side, from which it soon flows.
  • Kritzenbach , from the left opposite the sewage treatment plant below Dorfkemmathen, approx. 4.9 km. Arises about 2.5 km northeast of Langfurth- Ammelbruch in the forest north of the AN 50.
  • Sulzachwiesengraben , from the left in front of the Sulzach bridge from Wittelshofen - Untermichelbach . Arises near the Kritzenbach estuary in the floodplain, approx. 2.3 km.
  • Hochwiesgraben , from the right less than 200 m southeast of the Untermichelbacher Sulzachbrücke, approx. 6.3 km. With the longer right upper course Auchtgraben , the outflow of a pond north of Dinkelsbühl- Sinbronn .
  • Kreutbrunnengraben , from the left about 300 m east of the Untermichelbacher Sulzachbrücke at 428.6  m above sea level. NHN , approx. 4.2 km. Arises east of Langfurth- Ammelbruch on the edge of the forest.
  • Grüber Bach , from the left north of Wittelshofen- Grabmühle , approx. 4.3 km. Arises north of Wittelshofen- Grüb on the western edge of a forest island. Its brook valley limits the Hesselberg in the west.
  • Weihergraben , from the right through Wittelshofen next to the Sulzach bridge, approx. 1.9 km. Created at a field path cross in western Wittelsbacher Rotbühl .

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  1. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
  2. ↑ a b Directory of the brook and river areas in Bavaria - Danube river area from source to Lech, page 71 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 2.3 MB)
  3. ↑ See BayernAtlas