Wachenbach (Hafenlohr)
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Wachenbach Wagenbach, (upper course: Salzbach) |
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 The Wachenbach at the Alte Wachenmühle |
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| Water code | DE : 24564 | |
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Spessart
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| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Hafenlohr → Main → Rhine → North Sea | |
| origin | Confluence of Esselbach and Steinmarker Bach 49 ° 51 ′ 28 ″ N , 9 ° 32 ′ 34 ″ E |
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| Source height | 245 m above sea level NHN at the confluence | |
| muzzle | near Windheim in Hafenlohr Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '5 " N , 9 ° 34' 19" E 49 ° 53 '5 " N , 9 ° 34' 19" E |
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| Mouth height | 163 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | 82 m | |
| Bottom slope | 17 ‰ | |
| length | 4.7 km from the confluence of the river 10.4 km with Steinmarker Bach | |
| Catchment area | 40.8 km² | |
| Left tributaries | Heinrichsbach | |
 The Wachenbach (back left) flows into the Hafenlohr (from back right to front right) |
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The Wachenbach or Wagenbach, also known as Salzbach in the upper reaches, is a right tributary of the Hafenlohr in the Main-Spessart district in the Bavarian Spessart . It arises from the confluence of the right Esselbach with the left Steinmarker Bach southeast of Esselbach - Steinmark . On some old maps, the Heinrichsbach is also referred to as the Wachenbach .
Surname
The upper course name Salzbach comes from the time when Bad Orber salt was transported on the Salzweg, which crossed the upper course at the Salzbach Bridge at the confluence of the source streams . Road tolls were due at the bridge . This old salt road was a branch line of the donkey path .
The name Wachenbach was mentioned in this form as early as the 9th century. It can be ruled out that he has anything to do with a guard or a car . Rather, today it is assumed that the stream got its name from Count Wago, the count of the Waldsassengau .
geography
Spring streams
Esselbach
The Esselbach rises in Bischbrunn . It flows through Oberndorf, Esselbach and Kredenbach . It is the 5.5 km long, shorter and less arid right source stream.
Stone marker brook
The 5.7 km long Steinmarker Bach rises as Krebsbach north of Straßlücke . It runs in a south-easterly direction to Steinmark , where it flows past an old washing area. To the southeast of the village, it joins the Esselbach from the left at the Salzbach Bridge as a stone marker brook.
course
After the confluence of the source streams, the Salzbach flows in a northerly direction. From there he fed the Peters and Heinrich mills until 1893. The Heinrichsbach joins the Wachenbach from the left at the Alte Wachenmühle . With it as the upper course, the Wachenbach would have a length of 13 km. In the further north-eastern course, on the left edge of the forest, there is the border to the now community-free area Fürstlich Löwensteinscher Park with the forester's house Faun . There the Wachenbach drove the Neue Wachen- and Pfeuffersmühle until 1890. Numerous springs on the left slope of the valley strengthen the stream there. At Windheim it flows into the Hafenlohr as its largest and last tributary .
Tributaries
- Heinrichsbach (left)
- Höchsterbrunnengraben (left, temporarily dry)
Hafenlohr river system
Mills
The Wachenbach flows through the Wachengrund, where it drove six mills. The old mill (broken off), Petersmühle (broken off), Heinrichsmühle, old and new guard mill and the Pfeuffersmühle (broken off). Some of these mills have completely disappeared. None of the existing ones are still in milling operations. Only in the Alte Wachenmühle has hydropower been used to generate electricity since 2001. The mills that still exist are all in the district of Esselbach .
Old Mill
(1st) = Petersmühle
(2nd) = Heinrichsmühle
(3rd) = Alte Wachenmühle
(4th) = Kieseckersmühle
(5th) = Käfermühle
(6th) = New Wachenmühle
(7th ) ) = Pepper mill
(8.) = Weihersmühle
(9.) = Railway bridge mill
The old mill (approximate location) was once located near the Salzbach Bridge below the confluence of the Esselbach and Steinmarker Bach rivers. Around 1860 the last remains of an old weir were torn away by floods. The old mill is still shown on the Pfinzing map from 1562.
Petersmühle
Between the Salzbachbrücke and the Heinrichsmühle was the Petersmühle (location) until 1895 . It was first mentioned in a document in 1503 as "Brunnclausenmühl". In the following years it had different names: Clausenmühle, Glücksmühle, Obere Mühle, Scheffers-Mühle and Petersmühle. In 1700, the owner Peter Fertig built the Heinrichsmühle about 500 m downstream, as the Wachenbach between these two mills is reinforced by two springs. In 1815, the Petersmüller built the Käfermühle on Heinrichsbach . In 1892 the grinding operation in the Petersmühle was stopped and in 1893 the building was demolished. Today nothing can be seen of the Petersmühle.
Heinrichsmühle
The Heinrichsmühle (location) is located in the upper Wachengrund, south of the Alte Wachenmühle. It was built around 1700 by the owner of the Petersmühle. The mill got its name from the builder, who came from the so-called Mülhenner-Gut in Steinmark. Henner is the short form of the name Heinrich.
Old guard mill
The Alte Wachenmühle (location) stands between Heinrichsmühle and the forester's house Faun, where the Heinrichsbach flows into the Wachenbach. It is the oldest settlement in the Wachengrund. It was first mentioned in documents as early as 1429 as "Mule in der Wachenbach". The mill is probably even older. It could have existed since the 9th century. From around the Thirty Years War , two families lived in the mill, which was then divided. Around 1700, the original owner of the Alte Wachenmühle built the Neue Wachenmühle a few hundred meters down the valley. His son-in-law Johann Pfeuffer built the Pfeuffersmühle in the lower Wachengrund in 1804.
New guard mill
To the east of the forester's house Faun is the Neue Wachenmühle (location) on the Wachenbach . It was built in 1696 by the miller from the Alte Wachenmühle and rebuilt in 1863. In 1894, the mill stopped grinding and was converted into a trout breeding facility with a beekeeping facility.
Pepper Mill
In 1803, Johann Pfeuffer from the Alte Wachenmühle applied for the construction of a cutting and oil mill in the lower Wachengrund. The Pfeuffersmühle was built in 1804 a little above the confluence of the Wachenbach in the Hafenlohr (Lage) . It only existed for a few decades and was canceled in 1893. Plans to rebuild the pepper mill were made, but never implemented. Remnants of the old mill canal are still clearly visible.
See also
Web links
- Wachenbach
- The Wachenbach and its catchment area on the BayernAtlas
- The catchment area of the Wachenbach according to basic data on the Bavarian river on the geographic data atlas of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
- ↑ Directory of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 124 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB)
- ↑ a b c Information board at the Salzbach Bridge
- ↑ Stadtplandienst.de
- ↑ Germany 2012/2013: ADAC Reise Atlas 1: 200000 © 2009 MairDumont Media, D-73751 Ostfildern (2.)
- ↑ Map of Southwest Germany a. the alpine country