Weidbach (Main)

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Weidbach
Data
Water code DE : 245794
location Sandstone Spessart

Bavaria

River system Rhine
Drain over Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source in Triefenstein - Rettersheim
49 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 34 ′ 57 ″  E
Source height approx.  212  m above sea level NHN
muzzle southwest of Triefenstein - Trennfeld in the Main Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '8 "  N , 9 ° 35' 52"  E 49 ° 47 '8 "  N , 9 ° 35' 52"  E
Mouth height 138  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 74 m
Bottom slope approx. 29 ‰
length 2.5 km
Catchment area 2.04 km²
Communities Triefenstein

The Weidbach is a creek about two kilometers long in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart , which flows into the Main from the right in a south-southeast direction .

geography

course

The Weidbach rises in the natural area Sandstein-Spessart in the sub-unit Oberwittbacher Spessartvorland at an altitude of about 212  m above sea level. NHN a small pond in the Triefenstein district of Rettersheim . It is possible that it is still fed by a small field ditch underground there.

The Weidbach initially flows partly underground piped south-eastwards through Rettersheim, then, accompanied by thick wood, runs east-south-east through fields and then through a deciduous forest. He now crosses under the A 3 and passes the boundary to the Triefenstein district of Trennfeld . It then moves southeast again through the Barderswiesen corridor, then makes a sharp arc to the right and southwest in front of some residual lakes in gravel pits .

Finally, it flows south in the Unteren Maintal natural area in the Marktheidenfeld-Wertheimer Maintal sub-unit southwest of Trennfeld at an altitude of 138  m above sea level. NN at Main kilometer 169.6 a good kilometer above the state border with Baden-Württemberg from the right into the Main flowing from the east-northeast .

Catchment area

The Weidbach drains a little over 2.0 km². Its catchment area is a tube that begins in the west of Rettersheim and continues after a right bend by about 45 ° just below the town southeast to the Main, about 3.5 km long and always less than 1.0 km wide. The highest point in it is near the summit of the Bocksberg west-northwest of Rettersheim at almost 286  m above sea level. NN on the short western watershed to the Wittbach , a downward tributary of the Main. The northern part separates from the drainage area of ​​a dry ditch leading east to the upstream Main at Triefenstein Monastery . Beyond the following northeastern channel, if at all, only shorter channels run to the nearby Main. From the middle reaches upwards competing on the right watershed hard digging .

The landscape in the catchment area is almost completely free of forests and is mostly plowed. The aforementioned gravel pit lakes are located on the lower reaches, and quarries on the western watershed on the Bocksberg . Rettersheim is the only settlement area.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  2. ↑ water level of the River Main between barrages Lengfurt and acorn, consistently noted both on the Bayern Atlas in blue.
  3. ↑ Directory of stream and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 128 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB)
  4. ↑ Directory of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 119 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB)
  5. ↑ a b Horst Mernsching, Günter Wagner: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 152 Würzburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 5.3 MB)
  6. ↑ Name of the Hartsgraben after its inscription on the historical map that can be selected on the BayernAtlas.