Waldach

	Waldach
	The mouth of the Waldach (from the left) into the Nagold (from under the large arch to the right)
	Data
Water code	DE : 238444
location	Northern Black Forest Eastern Black Forest edge plates; Upper pig Nagold-Heckengäu; Baden-Württemberg Freudenstadt district Gde. Waldachtal ; Gde. Pfalzgrafenweiler ; ; District of Calw City of Haiterbach ; City of Nagold ; ;
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Nagold → Enz → Neckar → Rhine → North Sea
source	as Schneckenbächle in Schneckenlöchle about 1.5 km south-southwest of the center of Waldachtal-Tumlingen, ; 48 ° 27 '47 " N , 8 ° 34' 8" E
Source height	approx. 635 m above sea level NHN
muzzle	In Nagold from the right and south in the Nagold coordinates: 48 ° 33 '4 " N , 8 ° 43' 17" E 48 ° 33 '4 " N , 8 ° 43' 17" E;
Mouth height	slightly below 400 m above sea level NHN
Height difference	approx. 235 m
Bottom slope	approx. 9.5 ‰
length	24.7 km
Catchment area	157.1 km²

The Waldach is almost 25 km long river in western Baden-Wuerttemberg in the transition area between the Black Forest and the Gäu , in the city of Nagold in Calw from the right and south into the river Nagold flows.

geography

course

The Waldach is a small river on the eastern edge of the northern Black Forest towards the Upper Gäu , which is a landscape triangle framed by the waters of the Upper Nagold in the north, the Upper Neckar in the southeast and its tributary Glatt in a north-easterly direction on an approximate curve to the northwest to the Nagold dehydrated.

The Waldach arises from a few small streams in the area of the municipality named after it Waldachtal . At the source furthest from the mouth about 1.5 km south-south-west of the center of the village of Tumlingen in the municipality and at about 635 m above sea level. From the NHN, the Schneckenbächle , the official upper course, rises right in front of a forest strip in which the border to the southwestern neighboring municipality of Schopfloch runs. The initially north-easterly course in a flat, straight hollow in the valley swings to a north-north-west course before the village boundary, in and shortly after Tumlingen the brook takes on two larger left tributaries, the Weiherbach and the Heppersbach , which arise beyond the border in the Schopflocher area. Here it also enters the north-eastern Black Forest from the natural area of the Upper Gau, characterized by shell limestone in the subsoil, which is characterized by the red sandstone.

The Waldach then runs through the meandering valley through the village of Lützenhardt , the hamlet of Vesperweiler , the village of Cresbach and the hamlets of Oberwaldach and Unterwaldach in the municipality, here now on a north-eastern course in a valley that is about 80 meters deep against the wooded and cleared islands, Above which the ruined castle Rüdenberg stands on a left mouth spur shortly before the last hamlet . Then it passes over to the municipality of Pfalzgrafenweiler , whose central eponymous place is on the left on the hill, and below the forest slopes after the ruins of Vörbach , located on another left estuary, the narrowing valley floor with forest, in which there is now no significant road, fills more runs. On the next four and a half kilometers of the north-east course, over which a lookout tower on the left above the valley on the site of the Mantelberg ruins provides a view, the following Bösinger mill from Pfalzgrafenweiler is the only settlement in the valley, in which the municipality border to the city of Haiterbach will soon enter The main town is at a later right inlet. Shortly before the district of Beihingen , the valley floodplain noticeably widens and opens up, the Waldach changes here entirely to the area of the city.

In the local area of the following district of Oberschwandorf , the river turns for a short distance to the south-southeast, here its valley floor even reaches a width of 300 meters and it now leaves the Black Forest again and turns back into the Obere Gäu. While the tributaries have so far mostly come from the left and are at most just over three kilometers in length, the two most important tributaries now flow from the right from the inside of the Waldach bend on the last third of the course. The first is the almost five kilometer long Heiterbach - partly also spelled Haiterbach like the city on its bank itself - directly in front of the Unterschwandorf district and its castle . After this place the Waldach crosses the municipal border to the city of Nagold and immediately reaches the village of Iselshausen . This is where its most important, over fourteen kilometer long tributary, Steinach, flows from the right and finally south, which runs roughly on the tendon of the Waldach arc through the Gaulandschaft in front of the Black Forest edge.

Here the Waldach turns abruptly on a north course and then flows no two and a half kilometers further in the town of Nagold opposite the Schlossberg with the ruins of Hohennagold at a little below 400 m above sea level. NHN from the right into the Nagold , which here at the inlet just like the Waldach on which the Steinach bends north.

Catchment area

The Waldach has a catchment area of 157 km². From a natural spatial point of view, the greater part of it lies in the sub-area of the Eastern Black Forest edge plates of the northern Black Forest . Between Ober- and Unterschwandorf, the small river changes into the lower Nagold-Heckengäu area of the Oberen Gäue , which belongs to the entire catchment area of the large right tributary Steinbach am Unterlauf, which alone contributes a third.

On the other side of the northwestern watershed, the Zinsbach runs first , then Bäumbach to the upper Nagold in the northeast . In the north, the Nagold itself competes, partly through smaller tributaries. In the extreme northeast, the upper reaches of the Kochhart drain over this eastward to the Ammer tributary of the Neckar . All of the following competitors also reach the upper Neckar from the right, one after the other to the right of the large right Waldach tributary Steinbach from east to south, above all the Seltenbach , the Eutinger Talbach and the Dießener Bach , where the Steinbach itself flows into the Neckar is hardly more than four kilometers away. Finally, in the south-west and west of the catchment area, the long Glatt runs south-south-east towards the Neckar.

Tributaries

Hierarchical list of tributaries and lakes from source to mouth. Water lengths usually according to LUBW-FG10 (data record entries), catchment areas according to LUBW-GEZG, lake areas according to LUBW-SG10, height information according to the contour image on the geodata viewer. Other sources for the information are noted.

The source of the Waldach is the source of the Schneckenbächle in the Schneckenlöchle about 1.5 km south-southwest of the village of Tumlingen in the Waldachtal community in front of the forest that separates Schopfloch at about 635 m above sea level. NHN .

Pond in the Markental , from which the short right source branch flows off.

(Inflow from the Markental ), from the right to about 595 m above sea level. NHN at the south end of Tumlingen, 0.415 km.

Is the drainage of a pond of 0.4917 ha at about 615 m above sea level. NHN .

Weiherbach (!), From the left at the northwestern exit of Tumlingen to over 570 m above sea level. NHN , 2.351 km and 2.69 km². Rises from a spring in the valley meadows a little north of Schopfloch at about 642 m above sea level. NHN and

runs through the middle reaches below 590 m above sea level. NHN the 0.6988 ha large Hörschweiler lake .

Heppersbach , from the left between Tumlingen and Lützenhardt at less than 565 m above sea level. NHN , 3.281 km and 4.238 km². Arises in the forest area of Stöcken near the B 28a between Schopfloch and Dornstetten at about 653 m above sea level. NHN .

Schneewiesenbach , from the left verdolt under the central triangular road from Hörschweiler to less than 580 m above sea level. NHN , 1.149 km. Arises on the edge of an elongated corridor in the northern Reutewegwald at almost 610 m above sea level. NHN .

Brettenbach , from the left in Lützenhardt near the town hall at about 555 m above sea level. NHN , 3.348 km and 9.165 km². Arises close to the Mönchswiese
clearing in the Harz
Forest west of Hörschweiler
at about 633 m above sea level. NHN .
- Flows through on the western edge of Lützenhardt to a little below 565 m above sea level. NHN the Hinteren Waldsee , 0.6721 ha.
- Soon afterwards feeds in Lützenhardt at below 560 m above sea level. NHN another pond on the left bank, 0.1457 ha.

Cresbach , from the left in the hamlet of Vesperweiler from Waldachtal to less than 545 m above sea level. NHN , 3.059 km and 9.264 km². Arises at the source Kindlesbrunnen in the wetland in front of the Schulzenwald south of the village of Herzogsweiler von Pfalzgrafenweiler at about 610 m above sea level. NHN .

(Inflow through the village of Cresbach von Cresbachtal), from the left on the southeastern edge of the village to below 570 m above sea level. NHN , 0.717 km. Arises north of the village at around 585 m above sea level. NHN .

Därnenbach , from the right in the Waldachtaler hamlet of Oberwaldach at over 530 m above sea level. NHN , 2.354 km. Develops near the Salzstettener Reithalle on the edge of the Horber Spitalwald at less than 630 m above sea level. NHN .

(Inflow), from the left on the western edge of the forest ledge Auchtert at about 577 m above sea level. NHN , 0.437 km. Arises almost on the eastern edge of the Auchtert at about 585 m above sea level. NHN .
(Inflow), from the left just before the Oberwaldach family village Waldachtal at about 570 m above sea level. NHN , 0.548 km. Arises on the northern edge of the hamlet of Heiligenbronn at about 580 m above sea level. NHN .

Weiherbach (!), From the left at some isolated houses in front of the hamlet Unterwaldach and under the mountain and the abandoned castle Rüdenberg at about 530 m above sea level. NHN , 2.459 km. Arises on the southern outskirts of Pfalzgrafenweiler near the bath at about 620 m above sea level. NHN .

(Tributary on the northern edge of the forest length Hardt ), right south of Pfalzgrafenweiler at the edge of the forest Gewanns Gypsy hump at about 575 m above sea level. NHN , 1.528 km. Arises on the road from the Pfalzgrafenweiler village of Durrweiler to the main town at about 625 m above sea level. NHN .

Brünnle , from the right below the sewage treatment plant at Waldachtal-Vörbach to below 510 m above sea level. NHN in a right-hand Mühlkanal, 0.533 km. Rises on the road from Neu-Nuifra to the cemetery of a spring at almost 580 m above sea level. NHN .

Vörbächle , from the left a little afterwards into the Waldach itself under the ruins of Vörbach at less than 503.5 m above sea level. NHN , 1.802 km and 3.758 km². Arises east of Pfalzgrafenweiler at the entrance to the forest of the road to the suburb of Bösingen at about 595 m above sea level. NHN .

( Graben to Vorbächle ), from the right at the beginning of the floodplain below the Hohlenstein estuary to about 525 m above sea level. NHN , 0.573 km. Develops a little southeast of the closed development of Pfalzgrafenweiler at about 590 m above sea level. NHN .

Reutebächle , from the left under the mouth of the Mantelberg castle ruins at over 490 m above sea level. NHN in a left side ditch, approx. 1.3 km. Arises on the southern edge of western Bösingen at about 610 m above sea level. NHN . Upper course unstable in the corridor up to the forest ravine.

Täbelesbach , from the right about 500 meters further down into the Waldach itself now in the Haiterbach district at 489.7 m above sea level. NHN , 0.76 km. Rises from a spring near the cemetery of the Haiterbach hamlet Altnuifra at about 590 m above sea level. NHN .

Erlenbach , from the left below the Bösinger sawmill from Haiterbach to under 490 m above sea level. NHN , approx. 0.7 km. Arises on the upper edge of the forest hill southeast of Bösingen at about 560 m above sea level. NHN .

Lichtenbach , from the left just before the Haiterbacher Taldorf Beihingen to below 470 m above sea level. NHN , 1.62 km. Rises from a source in the northeast tip of the Bösinger clearing island at about 550 m above sea level. NHN .

Gründelbach , from the left about 600 meters before the first houses in the Haiterbach village of Oberschwandorf at a little below 453.6 m above sea level. NHN , 2.022 km. Arises in the Gründel strip south-east of Egenhausen at below 535 m above sea level. NHN .

(Inflow), from the right just before the valley entrance to below 470 m above sea level. NHN , 0.719 km. Arises north of Beihingen in front of the Schäufelwald at about 530 m above sea level. NHN .

(Inflow from the Hallmannstal ), from the left at the first houses in Oberschwandorf at less than 450 m above sea level. NHN , 0.811 km. Rises from a source on the eastern Semellenberg at about 520 m above sea level. NHN .

(Inflow), from the left in Oberschwandorf just before the Waldachbrücke a little over 441.6 m above sea level. NHN , 1.571 km. Arises in the Fuchsloch at just 520 m above sea level. NHN .

Heiterbach (!), From the right at the beginning of Unterschwandorf next to the Waldach bridge on the L 354 to about 435 m above sea level. NHN , 4.739 km and 13.882 km². Arises shortly before the southern edge of the settlement from Haiterbach on the L 354 to Salzstetten at about 552.1 m above sea level. NHN .

Stauchbach , from the left in the downward Haiterbach at less than 540 m above sea level. NHN , 4.739 km and 5.636 km². Arises in Altnuifra at about 570 m above sea level. NHN . Exceeds in length as the catchment area at the confluence of the Heiterbach upper course.

Steinach , from right at Waldachknie in Nagolder village Iselshausen to about 413 m above sea level. NHN , 14.268 km and 53.633 km². Arises on the western edge of the village of Grünmettstetten von Horb am Neckar at about 585 m above sea level. NHN .

Brühlbach , from the left in the Horber village Altheim at about 528 m above sea level. NHN , 3.662 km (with the upper reaches of Haischbächle ) or 2.748 km (from the confluence) and 8.608 km². Arises from the confluence of the Haischbachle and a branch from the Gewann See at 571.3 m above sea level. NHN .
- Haischbächle , left source branch, 0.914 km. Arises under the Salzstettener Hohwies at a little over 610 m above sea level. NHN .
- Gebersbach , from the right at the Salzstetter Mühle to a little below 544.4 m above sea level. NHN , 1.321 km. Arises in the alders near south of Salzstetten at about 600 m above sea level. NHN .
  
  Heuberggraben , from the left on the field path from Salzstetten to Orthalde , 0.208 km.
  
  Löchlesbrunnen , from the right almost opposite the previous one at about 560 m above sea level. NHN , 1.254 km. Arises in the Löchle at about 615 m above sea level. NHN .

Doxbrunnenbach , from the left through the nature reserve Doxbrunner Steinachtal near the Altheim sewage treatment plant at about 525 m above sea level. NHN , 1.242 km. Arises in the Altheimer Grund near the Krähenstein at about 565 m above sea level. NHN .

Passed on his right at below 520 m above sea level. NHN an elongated artificial lake in the floodplain, 0.6692 ha.

Stetbach , from the left just below the lake, 0.895 km. Arises in another side valley bay of the nature reserve at about 550 m above sea level. NHN .

(Inflow), from the right below the Nagold village of Gündringen at 428.5 m above sea level. NHN , 1.194 km. Arises in the Löchle at about 476 m above sea level. NHN .

(Inflow), from the right in Iselshausen at about 410 m above sea level. NHN , 1.136 km. Arises on the eastern Ziegelberg at about 520 m above sea level. NHN .

Kreuzertalbach , from the right in Nagold at the bridge of Herrenberger / Freudenstädter Straße.

Mouth of the Waldach from the right at the end of the Nagoldknies in the town of Nagold opposite the Schlossberg with the ruins of Hohennagold at less than 400 m above sea level. NHN . The stream here is 24.681 km long and has a catchment area of 157.139 km² behind it, to which the largest and right tributary Steinach am Unterlauf alone contributes 53.633 km².

Localities

Locations on the run with their affiliations. (Only the names of the lowest nesting level denote neighboring settlements.):

Freudenstadt district
- community Waldachtal
  - Tumlingen (village)
  - Lützenhardt (village)
  - Lützenhardter Mühle (living space, left)
  - Vesperweiler (hamlet, mostly on the left)
  - Oberwaldach (hamlet)
  - Unterwaldach (hamlet, mostly on the left)
  - Rüdenberg castle ruins (on the left mouth spur)
  - Vörbach (hamlet, left)
- Community Pfalzgrafenweiler
  - Ruin Vörbach (on the left mouth spur)
  - Mantelberg ruin (on the left mouth spur)
  - Bösinger Sägmühle (residential area, on the valley border to the Haiterbach area)
- City of Haiterbach
  - Beihingen (village, mostly on the left)
  - Oberschwandorf (village, left)
  - Unterschwandorf (village, center on the left)
  - Unterschwandorf Castle (living space, right)
- City of Nagold
  - Iselshausen (village)
  - Nagold (city)

In the catchment area there are other places and settlement areas of the municipalities and cities mentioned above, as well as parts of the municipal areas of Schopfloch , Dornstetten (both rural districts of Freudenstadt), Egenhausen , Altensteig , Rohrdorf (all three rural districts of Calw), Mötzingen ( district of Böblingen ) and above especially in the south around Steinach Horb am Neckar (again Freudenstadt district).

geology

The course of the Waldach begins in the southern municipality of Waldachtal on the northwest edge of the Gäuplatte on the left of the Upper Neckar . It rises at the border of the Upper and Middle Muschelkalk (upper course Schneckenbächle ) and runs through the Middle and Lower Muschelkalk in quick succession to reach the Upper Buntsandstein ( red formation ) in Tumlingen ; the first somewhat longer inflow of the Weiherbach is already entirely in this layer. The Middle Buntsandstein then sets in approximately at the inlet of the Heppersbach .

As far as the Lichtenbach in front of Beihingen, it stretches to the northeast in a valley floor in the Middle Buntsandstein, while the surrounding heights are in the Upper Buntsandstein and the shell limestone often sets in close to the upper slope edge on the right. From Beihingen the stream runs again in the Upper Buntsandstein to its east-south-east bend in Oberschwandorf, where it returns to the Lower Muschelkalk, surrounded by heights up to the Upper Muschelkalk, where it then remains up to the mouth.

Its left tributaries up to the east-south-east bend in Oberschwandorf all run through the red sandstone, the right ones here have some sources in the Lower Muschelkalk. The Heiterbach and its larger Steinbach tributary flow entirely in this layer.

Landscape and nature

The two natural areas in which the catchment area is part - Black Forest edge plates to the northwest, roughly a line from ( Waldachtal -) Tumlingen to Haiterbach- Oberschwandorf, Obere Gäue southeast of it on both sides of the Steinach - are clearly reflected in the land use. While to the northwest of the line, in addition to a large proportion of forest, the open area is mainly occupied by grassland, to the southeast of it there is significantly less forest and a dominant proportion of arable land in the open areas. At the southwestern transition in the area of the towns of Tumlingen, Salzstetten, Altheim and Grünmettstetten, however, the grassland also dominates here on the large, forest-free areas.

The large Black Forest Central / North nature park occupies the greater part of the catchment area to the east beyond the natural boundary; only about 60 km² of the catchment area in the northeast around Nagold and Haiterbach do not belong to this protected area.

A nature reserve in the valley begins in the form of the Waldach- and Haiterbachtal nature reserve , which stretches narrowly in the floodplain of the Waldach, first in the corridor and below Oberschwandorf, but the majority of the areas protected in this way are in the side valleys, especially around Haiterbach and east of Waldachtal-Salzstetten ("Salzstettener Horn") around the Brühlbach , further on the Ziegelberg east of Iselshausen and devil's brain shell around the Nagold district hospital on the left mouth of the Waldach. Almost the entire uninhabited part of the valley of the Waldach and the Steinach are landscape protection areas, plus the area around the Salzstetter Horn and other smaller areas. Where the catchment area belongs to the Upper Gäuen, there are dense concentrations of stone bars and the hedge biotopes that give this landscape its name for the western part of Heckengäu .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b According to the contour line image on the geodata viewer.

↑ ^a ^b According to LUBW-FG10 (data record entry).

↑ ^a ^b Sum of the sub-catchment areas according to LUBW-GEZG (data record entries).

↑ According to LUBW-FG10.

^ Friedrich Huttenlocher , Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 170 Stuttgart. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1949, revised 1967. → Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)

↑ Friedrich Huttenlocher : Geographical Land Survey: The natural space units on sheet 178 Sigmaringen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1959. → Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)

↑ Name after the background map of the LUBW-FG10. The database entry calls him Dürnenbach .

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Text entry in black on the geodata viewer.

↑ ^a ^b Measured on LUBW-FG10.

↑ ^a ^b ^c Text entry in blue on the geodata viewer.

^ Name according to the Heiterbach map , according to the database entry for LUBW-FG10 the brook is called Haiterbach .

↑ geology to LGRB-GÜK300.

↑ Land use according to LUBW-LS2000.

↑ Protected areas according to LUBW-SCHUTZ.

literature

"TK25": Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet no. 7417 Altensteig, no. 7418 Nagold, no. 7517 Dornstetten and no. 7518 Horb am Neckar

Web links

Geoportal Baden-Württemberg ( information ), especially with the partial maps / layers
- the State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg (LUBW)
  - "LUBW-FG10": River 1: 10,000
  - "LUBW-SG10": Standing water 1: 10,000
  - "LUBW-GEZG": water catchment areas
  - "LUBW-LS2000": Land use according to Landsat 2000
  - "LUBW-SCHUTZ": Various cards for the individual nature conservation categories
- of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining of the State of Baden-Württemberg (LGRB)
  - "LGRB-GÜK300": Geological overview map 1: 300,000

[LUBW-HLB-1] According to the contour line image on the geodata viewer.

[LUBW-FG10-Single-2] According to LUBW-FG10 (data record entry).

[LUBW-GEZG-Sum-3] Sum of the sub-catchment areas according to LUBW-GEZG (data record entries).

[4] According to LUBW-FG10.

[BfL-170-5] Friedrich Huttenlocher , Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 170 Stuttgart. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1949, revised 1967. → Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)

[BfL-178-6] Friedrich Huttenlocher : Geographical Land Survey: The natural space units on sheet 178 Sigmaringen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1959. → Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)