Flossach
| Flossach | ||
 Flossach, in the Mindeltal east of Hasberg |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | EN : 1164 | |
| location | Bavaria | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Mindel → Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | northwest of Türkheim , east of Gerum (municipality of Rammingen ) 48 ° 4 ′ 40 ″ N , 10 ° 36 ′ 19 ″ E |
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| Source height | 588 m above sea level NN | |
| muzzle | north of Hasberg (Markt Kirchheim ) in the Mindel coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 36 " N , 10 ° 26 ′ 31" E 48 ° 12 ′ 36 " N , 10 ° 26 ′ 31" E |
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| Mouth height | 522 m above sea level NN | |
| Height difference | 66 m | |
| Bottom slope | 3.2 ‰ | |
| length | 20.5 km | |
| Left tributaries | Wörthbach , Tiefenbach, Hierbach | |
| Communities | Rammingen , Tussenhausen , Eppishausen , Kirchheim and Ursberg | |
The Flossach is a 20.5 km long right tributary of the Mindel . Via this it is an indirect right tributary of the Danube in Bavaria .
course
The 20.5 km long Flossach rises near the village of Gerum, northwest of Türkheim , at 588 m above sea level. NN. The Flossach flows in a north-westerly direction through a valley that is relatively wide for the size of the body of water, until it rises north of Hasberg ( Kirchheim municipality in Swabia ) to approx. NN flows into the Mindel. For the last 0.2 km before it flows into the Mindel, the Flossach flows through the Günzburg district , and for another kilometer it forms the border between the Unterallgäu and Günzburg districts. The difference in height between the source and the mouth is 65 m.
About 900 m below the mouth of the Wörthbach , the Flossach divides into two arms. The Flossach flows through the villages of Tussenhausen and Zaisertshofen, the other arm of the river, called Lettenbach or Lehnbach , flows through Mattsiesmühle - north of Mattsies - and along the Mindelheim-Mattsies airfield .
Below the confluence of the Flossach and the Lettenbach, east of Salgen and the Salgener Moos , the Flossachtal merges into the Mindeltal, which is very wide in this area. In this wide valley, the Flossach flows parallel to the Eastern Mindel for about 10.5 km until it flows into the Mindel.
From the confluence of the Wörthbach into the Flossach, this, together with the Lettenbach arm and the Weißbach (→ see below), is a second-order body of water.
The Kleine Flossach , which branches off near Derndorf, flows through the nature reserve Mindelrieder Paradies and connects the Flossach with the Hasel .
Width of the Flossach valley
The geologically special thing about the Flossachtal is that the valley is very wide. It cannot have been created by a river the size of the Flossach. This peculiarity can be explained by the fact that after the last Ice Age the Wertach sometimes flowed completely or only partially through the valleys of the Flossach and the Mindel towards the Danube. Proof of this is that you can find stones in the Mindeltal that occur in the Wertach catchment area, but not in the Mindel catchment area. In addition, there is no ridge between the Wertach and Flossach valleys as there are between other river valleys. The area in which the Flossach valley branches off from the Wertach valley is therefore also known to geologists as the Wertachgabel .
Villages in the valley of the Flossach - until the valley merges into the Mindeltal
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Villages along the Flossach - in the Mindeltal area
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Tributaries and streams
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- About two kilometers downstream from the source (north of Rammingen at 582 m above sea level), the 32.5 km long Wörthbach flows into the Flossach from the south.
- To the north of Mattsies in Mattsiesmühle (municipality of Tussenhausen ), the Tiefenbach flows about 5.9 km from the south to the Flossach at 574 m above sea level. NN in the Lettenbach. The difference in altitude between the source north of the B 18 - near the village of Sankt Anna, a district of the city of Mindelheim - is approx. 61 m.
- Approximately 650 m downstream from the mouth of the Tiefenbach, the 5.0 km long Hierbach , which also flows from the south to the Flossach, flows into the Lettenbach at 571 m above sea level. NN. The difference in height between the source in the Mindelheim city forest and the mouth is approx. 67 m.
Others
- The Mindelheim-Mattsies airfield is located in the Flossach valley
- from the confluence of the Flossach into the Mindel, the latter is a first-order body of water
- There is a pilgrimage chapel in the village of Sankt Anna in the valley of the Tiefenbach
- Mattsies Castle is located south of Mattsies above the Tiefenbach valley
- the valley of the Flossach forms the southwestern border of the perennials and the Augsburg-Western Forests nature park
Weissbach
The 14.5 km long Weißbach flows parallel to the Flossach in the same valley. From the Salgener Moos , the water flows parallel to the Flossach and the Eastern Mindel or between these two rivers. The Weißbach rises northwest of Mattsies (municipality of Tussenhausen) and flows into the Mindel at about 530 m above sea level on the eastern edge of Hasberg (municipality of Kirchheim in Swabia). NN. The difference in height between the source and the mouth of this body of water is 54 m. The Weißbach is connected to the Flossach and Lettenbach by a few ditches.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j BayernViewer from the Bavarian Surveying Administration
- ↑ a b Water body numbers, water length and further information about water bodies in Bavaria at the Bavarian State Office for the Environment ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2005 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Directory of the waters of the second order in Swabia
- ↑ Zenetti, P. 1904: The geological structure of the Bavarian North Swabia a. of the adjacent areas. - Verlag von Theodor Lampert, Augsburg, 143 p. (P. 126)
- ↑ Bavarian Water Act (BayWG) - Annex I - List of waters of the first order
