Weißach (Saalbach)

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Weißach
Weißach
The Weißach in Knittlingen

The Weißach in Knittlingen

Data
Water code DE : 23774
location Baden-Württemberg
River system Rhine
Drain over Saalbach  → Rhine  → North Sea
source on the Scheuelberg near Knittlingen- Freudenstein
49 ° 1 ′ 29 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 55 ″  E
Source height below  295  m above sea level NHN
confluence in Bretten with the left Salzach to Saalbach coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 4 ″  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 31 ″  E 49 ° 2 ′ 4 ″  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 31 ″  E

length 10.7 km
Catchment area 40.589 km²
Discharge
A Eo : 40.59 km²
at the mouth 		MNQ
MQ
Mq
 MHQ
 134 l / s
282 l / s
6.9 l / (s km²)
 3.9 m³ / s

The Weißach is the right source stream of the Saalbach in Baden-Württemberg .

Surname

The name Weißach refers to the properties of the water; In the dialect, white stands for light, clear or pure. The name ending -ach is a common hydronym in the Alpine region and in southwest Germany . The current name Weißach was determined in 1935 by a decree of the Baden Ministry of Finance and Economics, which had previously come to an agreement with the Baden Ministry of Culture and the Wuerttemberg Ministry of Culture.

Before 1935, the Weißach was partially assigned to the Saalbach; for example, Johann Goswin Widder located the source of the Saalbach near Freudenstein in his description of the Electoral Palatinate from 1786 . The Weißach was also considered part of the Saalbach by official bodies, for example in the articles on the hydrography of the Grand Duchy of Baden or in topographical maps from 1875 and 1927, in which the brook in the district of the Baden town of Bretten is referred to as Saalbach , in the upstream in the Württemberg town of Knittlingen, on the other hand, as Weißach .

geography

course

The Weißach rises in the district of the small town of Knittlingen in the Enzkreis on the northern slope of the Scheuelberg ( 382  m ) at about 295  m in the forest, leaves it to the northwest and reaches the village of Freudenstein . Here it changes permanently to west course and the K 4516 from Diefenbach in the east enters the valley. The Weißach crosses the village completely and immediately afterwards passes Hohenklingen in the mouth of a left tributary. It then moves through the so-called Weißacher Tal , which is partly under nature protection , at the end of which it flows into a lake over 5 hectares in size, the Weissacher Tal flood retention basin . After the exit, the Bernhardsbach joins from the right , then it immediately reaches Knittlingen itself.

Here the Eselbach runs under the town center on the estuary spur from the left . After leaving the end of the village and a little further down the associated Störrenmühle, it immediately crosses over to the town of Bretten in the district of Karlsruhe , where the Seebergerbach falls from the right through a limestone quarry at the exit of the side valley. Here the federal road 35 descends from the left slope and becomes the valley road. Still flowing to the west, it reaches the settlement area of ​​the Mittelstadt under the dam of the Kraichtalbahn , where its last tributary Gölshäuser Dorfbach flows from the north . After another kilometer through the city, it flows together with the left Salzach to form the Saalbach .

Catchment area

As its right source brook, the Weißach drains around 41 km² of the westernmost Stromberg and southeastern Kraichgau to the west towards the Rhine tributary Saalbach . Its catchment area joins that of the more important Kraichbach in the north , behind the eastern watershed the Metter , which is also larger, competes in the opposite direction to the central Neckar . In the south on your left runs the other Saalbach-Quellbach, which has a little more catchment area and is about one and a half times as long as it.

The highest point in the catchment area is the 381.6  m high Scheuelberg on the eastern edge, under which the stream rises. To the east of Knittlingen and Großvillars, the area still belongs to the Stromberg, here the landscape is very divided, the mountain ranges separating the valleys are distinctive and mostly covered with forest, in the Kraichgau part, on the other hand, open except on the northern edge.

Tributaries and still waters

List of tributaries and RiverIcon-SmallLake.svglakes on the course from the source to the mouth. With height, length, lake area and catchment area where available. Other sources are noted.

Source of the Weißach at about 295  m on the wooded north slope of the Scheuelberg ( 381.6  m ) in Scheithau . First runs northwest in the direction of Knittlingen- Freudenstein.

  • Burgstallbach , from the right and east to over 240  m in the eastern Freudenstein, 1.2 km. Arises at about 302  m in the Gewann Brunnquell on the ridge in front of the Gießbach valley in the east near Sternenfels - Diefenbach . From here on, the Weißach flows west.
  • Moorklingenbach , (also Mohrenklingenbach ) from the left and south to 217.1  m in Knittlingen-Hohenklingen, 1.3 km and 1.9 km². Arises at less than 300  m in the Köbler hillside forest .
  • RiverIcon-SmallLake.svgA little before the outskirts of Knittlingen it flows through the permanently dammed flood retention basin Weissacher Tal , 5.5 ha, in the nature reserve Weissacher Tal over 200  m .
  • Bernhardsbach , from the right and northeast to about 193.5  m about 200 meters after the lake outflow, 3.8 km and 5.4 km².
  • Eselbach (also Eßelbach or Esselbach ), from the left and southeast to about 185  m between the two Knittlinger churches, 2.8 km and 6.0 km². Arises at about 220  m on the eastern edge of the Schillingswald .
  • RiverIcon-SmallLake.svgPond group at less than 200  m to the left of the course at the quarry at the Knittlinger Störrmühle on the outskirts of Bretten , a total of 0.4 ha.
  • Seebergerbach (also Seebergbach , Bergseebach , older names Quellenbach , Langwiesenbächlein , Eitelsbach ), from the right and northeast to about 177  m after passing through the quarry, 4.5 km and 6.9 km². Arises at about 230  m on the northern edge of Oberderdingen - Großvillars .
  • Gölshäuser Dorfbach (also Quellenbachgraben , Gölshauser Bach , in Gölshausen only Dorfbach ), from the right and north in Bretten after passing under the dam of the Kraichgaubahn , 3.9 km and 7.3 km². Arises at about 227  m on the northern edge of the teaching forest to the hatch .

The confluence of the Weißach from the right and east with the left and southeastern Salzach to the Saalbach , which then flows off to the northwest.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Height according to the height image on the background layer Topographic map of the map services of the LUBW. →  Weblinks
  2. ↑ a b Length according to the water network layer (AWGN) of the LUBW map services. →  Weblinks
  3. ↑ Catchment area totaled from the sub-catchment areas according to the catchment area layer (AWGN) of the LUBW map services. →  Weblinks
  4. ↑ Values ​​from regionalization, data status March 1, 2016 (MNQ, MQ), March 1, 2007 (MHQ) from Abfluss-BW - a data and map service of the State Agency for the Environment Baden-Württemberg ( information )
  5. ↑ Willy Bickel: The Saalbach and its tributaries. Contribution to river name research in the Kraichgau. In: Fritz Herzer (Ed.): Bruchsaler Heimatgeschichte. Bruchsal 1955, pp. 199-211, here p. 201 f.
  6. ↑ Bickel, The Saalbach and its tributaries , in: Herzer, Bruchsaler Heimatgeschichte , pp. 199–211, here p. 201.
  7. ↑ ordnance 6918 Knittlingen of 1927 in the Deutsche Fotothek ; Measuring
    table sheet 6918 Knittlingen from 1904 in the Deutsche Fotothek ;
    Overview plan of the Bretten district (1875) at the General State Archives in Karlsruhe .
  8. ↑ Lake area according to the layer standing water of the map services of the LUBW. →  Weblinks
  9. ↑ Catchment area according to the catchment area layer (AWGN) of the LUBW map services. →  Weblinks
  10. ↑ a b Height according to black lettering on the background layer Topographic map of the map services of the LUBW. →  Weblinks
  11. ↑ a b Bickel, The Saalbach and its tributaries , in: Herzer, Bruchsaler Heimatgeschichte , pp. 199–211, here p. 206.
  12. ↑ Height according to the blue lettering on the background layer Topographic map of the map services of the LUBW. →  Weblinks
  13. ↑ Profile HRB Weissacher Tal at LUBW (accessed on July 7, 2019).
  14. ↑ Bickel, The Saalbach and its tributaries , in: Herzer, Bruchsaler Heimatgeschichte , pp. 199–211, here p. 206 f.
  15. ↑ Bickel, The Saalbach and its tributaries , in: Herzer, Bruchsaler Heimatgeschichte , pp. 199–211, here p. 207.

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