Weiersbach (Elbbach)

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Weiersbach
Data
Water code DE : 258767714
location Giessen-Koblenz Lahntal

Germany

River system Rhine
Drain over Elbbach  → Lahn  → Rhine  → North Sea
source northeast of Elz - Malmeneich
50 ° 26 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 2 ″  E
Source height approx.  241  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in Hadamar in the Elbbach Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '42 "  N , 8 ° 2' 42"  E 50 ° 26 '42 "  N , 8 ° 2' 42"  E
Mouth height approx.  130  m above sea level NHN
Height difference approx. 111 m
Bottom slope approx. 34 ‰
length 3.3 km
Catchment area approx. 2.8 km²

The Weiersbach is a three kilometers long, orographically right and western tributary of the Elbe stream in the village of Hadamar in the central Hessian district of Limburg-Weilburg .

geography

course

The Weiersbach rises close to the Hessian-Rhineland-Palatinate border at an altitude of about 241  m above sea level. NN . It flows in an easterly direction and finally flows after a river stretch of about 3.3 km at 130  m above sea level. NN on the right in the Elbbach .

A mean bed gradient of 34 ‰ is calculated from the height difference of 111 meters.

Tributaries

  • Malmeneicher Bach ( right ), 1.9 km

Elbbach river system

Individual evidence

  1. Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
  2. a b Deutschlandviewer
  3. Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  4. Self-measurement on the WFD Viewer