Wörsbach (Odenbach)

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Worsbach
Data
Water code DE : 2546816
location Saar-Nahe-Bergland

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Odenbach  → Glan  → Nahe  → Rhine  → North Sea
source in Niederkirchen - Wörsbach
49 ° 33 ′ 24 ″  N , 7 ° 40 ′ 16 ″  E
Source height approx.  331  m above sea level NHN
muzzle Northwest of Schallodenbach from the left in the Odenbach coordinates: 49 ° 33 '38 "  N , 7 ° 41' 20"  E 49 ° 33 '38 "  N , 7 ° 41' 20"  E
Mouth height approx.  281  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 50 m
Bottom slope approx. 35 ‰
length 1.4 km
Catchment area 1.584 km²

The Wörsbach is a good one and a half kilometers long left tributary of Odenbaches in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Kaiserslautern in the area of the municipality Otterbach Otter Mountain belong to local community Niederkirchen .

course

The Wörsbach rises in the Untere Lauterhöhen natural area of the North Palatinate Bergland at an altitude of 313  m above sea level. NHN on the south-eastern edge of the Niederkirchen district of Wörsbach in a green area overgrown with bushes and trees, the corridor in the upper meadows .

This section contradicts the information from the Neuhöfer Bach article . Please take part in the discussion and remove this module if necessary.

It initially flows about 400 meters in an easterly direction south of the houses-lined Olsbrücker Straße ( K 28 ) between the Heidenberg ( 387  m ) on the left, the southern spur of the Bornberg ( 420  m ), and the Wörsbacher Höhe on the right through the grassland of the corridor In the upper meadows . There is a small sewage treatment plant south of a mourning hall . There the stream enters the protected biotope valley of the Wörsbach . It then runs accompanied by thick wood and from Kreisstraße 28 just under 800 meters east-north-east under the right spur of the Eichelsberg ( 369  m ) to the Odenbachtal through a green zone of the corridor In the lower meadows .

The stream then crosses under Landesstraße 382 and finally flows into the Odenbach coming from the south-southeast at a height of 281  m south of the Rauschermühle .

nature and environment

The lower valley of the Wörsbach north of the Eichelsberg belongs to the biotope valley of the Wörsbach (area number: BK-6412-0292-2009). The biotope is around 8.4 hectares in total.

The valley of the Wörsbach with its meadows, hedges, bushes as well as the two seepage springs occurring there is a locally significant and well-structured natural area with valuable plant species.

Plum trees and broken willows grow there, and the herb layer includes the great nettle and the true bindweed . In the vicinity of the swamp springs, the swamp thistle , the pointed-flowered rush and the common forest rush thrive . the Meadowsweet , the White bent grass , the marsh marigold , the marsh sedge that brooklime and Juncus effusus .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  2. ↑ a b GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )
  3. ↑ Osiris: Valley of the Wörsbach