Teufelsbach (Gabelbach)

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Teufelsbach
The Teufelsbach just before the confluence

The Teufelsbach just before the confluence

Data
Water code DE : 247222
location Baden-Wuerttemberg
  Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis
Bavaria
  District Miltenberg
River system Rhine
Drain over Gabelbach  → Mud  → Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source south of Schloßau
49 ° 32 ′ 3 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 50 ″  E
Source height approx.  528  m above sea level NN
confluence from the right and south with the Breitenbach to the Gabelbach Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 45 "  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 32"  E 49 ° 34 ′ 45 "  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 32"  E
Mouth height approx.  245  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 283 m
Bottom slope approx. 47 ‰
length 6 km
Catchment area 16.437 km²

The Teufelsbach is the right and southern source brook of the Gabelbach . It runs in the central Odenwald largely through the municipality of Mudau in the Neckar-Odenwald district in Baden-Württemberg and finally flows from the south in the area of ​​Markt Kirchzell in the Bavarian district of Miltenberg together with the left Breitenbach .

geography

course

The Teufelsbach rises in Baden-Württemberg in the Neckar-Odenwald district a little southwest of Schloßau on the edge of the clearing island surrounding the place called Heumahdsbirken . He runs in a left curve through the village and then in a meadow hollow to the north. After the village's sewage treatment plant, he enters the wooded Devil's Blade , where he loses about 150 m in height over the next one and a half kilometers on a north-west course. After this steep section, the stream from the Gelmichsklinge runs to the right and it now flows flatter again in a wide, open floodplain on the bottom of its steep valley, which is wooded on the slopes. It reaches Ernsttal in a fork in the valley, at which the side valley runs from the Katzenloch from the southwest and where the L 2311 descends from the top of the Heidenberg pass and descends into the valley. This traffic axis, which is important for the Odenwald, uses the southwest running river axis of the Neckar tributary Itter in the south and the valley from Teufelsbach, Gabelbach and Mud in the north, which ultimately leads to the Main. The serpentine pass road attracts many motorcyclists in the good season. Then the stream continues north-northeast through Untertal and after another one and a half kilometers, less than three hundred meters of it last on Bavarian soil, joins the left Breitenbach to the Gabelbach, which then continues in the direction of Teufelsbach.

Catchment area

The Teufelsbach drains an area of ​​16.4 km² in the central Odenwald, which lies on the major watershed between the Main and Neckar , northwards towards the Main. The largest elevations in the catchment area follow one another on this watershed in the southwest and west against the competitor and Neckar tributary Itter ; the highest of these is in the Hohwald at 552.8  m above sea level. NN southwest of Waldleiningen. The route of the Neckar-Odenwald-Limes on the section between Würzberg and Oberscheidental also follows this natural dividing line . North of the catchment area border runs the other Gabelbach-Quellbach Breitenbach , northeast of it a smaller tributary of the upper Gabelbach. Beyond the northeast and eastern watershed is the immediate catchment area of ​​the Mudbach called Upper Mud, in the southeast that of the Upper Elz , which strives back to the Neckar.

About three quarters of the area is forested, the majority of the land area belongs to the clearing island around Schloßau, plus a much smaller clearing around Waldleiningen Castle and floodplains in the valleys.

Tributaries

  • Bach through the Gelmichsklinge , from the right about 800 m southeast of Ernsttal to almost 315  m above sea level. NN , 1.4 km.
  • Flows through a pond immediately before Ernsttal at about 290  m above sea level. NN , 0.5 ha.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b According to the contour line image on the geodata viewer.
  2. ↑ a b According to LUBW-FG10 (data record entry).
  3. ↑ According to LUBW-GEZG (data record entry).
  4. ↑ According to LUBW-SG10 (data record entry).

Web links

Commons : Teufelsbach  - collection of images, videos and audio files
The Teufelsbach (front right) merges with the Breitenbach (left) to the Gabelbach (back right)