Weilersbach (cooker)

	Weilersbach
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Water code	DE : 23867154
location	Kocher-Jagst Plains Eastern Kocher-Jagst-Riedel; Middle Kocher and Lower Bühlertal; Baden-Württemberg Schwäbisch Hall district City of Langenburg ; Gde. Braunsbach ; ; Hohenlohe district City of Künzelsau ; ;
River system	Rhine
Drain over	Kocher → Neckar → Rhine → North Sea
source	Beginning of the ditch in Strickgreut approx. 1.0 km southeast of Künzelsau- Laßbach ; 49 ° 15 ′ 34 ″ N , 9 ° 49 ′ 14 ″ E
Source height	approx. 449 m above sea level NHN
muzzle	beu Braunsbach- Weilersbach from the right and northeast in the middle Kocher coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 40 ″ N , 9 ° 46 ′ 17 ″ E 49 ° 14 ′ 40 ″ N , 9 ° 46 ′ 17 ″ E;
Mouth height	approx. 228.5 m above sea level NHN
Height difference	approx. 220.5 m
Bottom slope	approx. 48 ‰
length	4.6 km
Catchment area	6.542 km²

The Weilersbach is a stream less than 5 km long near the border between the municipality of Braunsbach in the Schwäbisch Hall district and the town of Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district , both in northeastern Baden-Württemberg , which flows into the middle Kocher from the right and northeast of the Braunsbach hamlet of Weilersbach .

geography

course

The Weilersbach begins its course about 1.0 km southeast of the small village of Laßbach in the town of Künzelsau on the other side of the forest island of Weide as a ditch in a natural hollow next to a field in Strickgreut . It sets in a western edge of the urban area of Langenburg at about 449 m above sea level. NHN at a fork in the road and follows the dirt road leading to the west-south-west. After about half a kilometer, Graben and Weg reach the L 1042 from Langenburg- Nesselbach to the much closer Laßbach. Beyond this state road, in the Gewann Streit of the Laßbach district marking, lies a spring, from which the watercourse continues in the old direction as a natural, winding brook, initially through an alluvial forest, after another road crossing in the wooded shell limestone that begins immediately after this. Blade . Already from the main road, the run follows the city limits from Künzelsau on the right bank to the community of Braunsbach on the left.

The castle Tierberg stands on the top of Hirschbach estuary spur

After the valley forest has opened after a long stretch of gorge on the left slope to a small clearing with the few houses in the Braunsbach hamlet of Winterbach , a creek that is only about half as long runs from a right sideline opposite to the northeast, which was previously close to the Künzelsau village of Vogelsberg has passed. The Weilersbach, cut a good hundred meters into the plateau, changes to its south-westerly direction. It flows between the Eckberg on the right and the Hopfenberg on the left, on whose spur to the next tributary stands the Tierberg Castle and a little set back the Braunsbach hamlet of Tierberg . Opposite the confluence of this following left tributary Hirschbach from the east, which in turn took up the rather long Heerbach from the right, stone bolts have already been inserted on the right side of the valley , which accompany the creek on the slope almost to its own mouth. Among them is the Braunsbach hamlet of Sommerberg near the brook . In the hamlet of Weilersbach , which is also part of Braunsbach , the brook crosses the L 1045 to the right of the Kocher, flows into the narrow floodplain of the river and then flows out at about 228.5 m above sea level. NHN from the right into the middle stove .

The Weilersbach flows after a 4.6 km long run with an average bed gradient of about 48 ‰ about 220 meters below its origin.

Catchment area

The Weilersbach has a 6.5 km² catchment area, which is part of the Kocher-Jagst plains in terms of natural space . The vast majority of it is located in the sub-area of the Eastern Kocher-Jagst-Riedel , to a small extent and near the mouth in the sub-area of the Middle Kocher and Lower Bühler valleys . The area begins on the Riedel between the large river valleys of the Kocher in the west and the Jagst in the east, very close to the Jagst, which sometimes flows less than a kilometer away from the watershed. This eastern, highest part of the total watershed is consistently over 450 m above sea level. NHN and also runs over the area maximum of 462.3 m above sea level. NHN .

In turn, that of the Weilersbach borders the catchment areas of the following neighboring waters:

The already mentioned Jagst flows in the east, to which only smaller razor brooks run from the sheath, including the Schnorrenberggraben in the southeast.
In the south, the nearest waters are the Kocher tributary Reichenbach and the stream flowing to it from the Scheide through the Sandhaldenklinge .
In the west, just before the Weilersbach, the short and unstable Hirschbach flows steeply down the valley slope to the Kocher.
In the north, the adjacent area outside of the Erlesbach is now being drained towards the downstream Kocher.

About half of the catchment area is forest, mainly on the plateau to the left of the river from Heerbach, lower Hirschbach and lower Weilersbach. The fields dominate the open corridor, except on the steep slopes.

The small town of Langenburg has a very small share of the catchment area , it is located in the far east close to the source of the stream. The community of Braunsbach has the largest share down to the left of the Weilersbachlauf and on the Unterlauf also up to the right valley slope. Both municipalities are in the Schwäbisch Hall district . The rest of the area to the right of the stream belongs to the town of Künzelsau in the Hohenlohe district .

There are only the following small settlement areas in the catchment area. On the plateau there are a few houses in the Künzelsau village of Vogelsberg just on this side of the northern watershed and the Braunsbach hamlet of Tierberg on the plateau spur between Weilersbach and Hirschbach, the top of which is Tierberg Castle . In the valley, the Braunsbach hamlet of Winterberg on the left and Sommerberg on the right line the run, one after the other, and finally the brook on the edge of the Kocher valley crosses the Braunsbach hamlet of Weilersbach .

Tributaries and lakes

Hierarchical list of tributaries and lakes from source to mouth. Length of water, lake area, catchment area and altitude according to the corresponding layers on the LUBW online map. Other sources for the information are noted.

Origin of the hamlet at about 449 m above sea level. NHN approx. 1.0 km southeast of the village of Laßbach in the city of Künzelsau in the Gewann Strickgreut of the city of Langenburg . The stream initially flows west-southwest.

(Bach aus dem Greut ), from the right and northeast to about 334.3 m above sea level. NHN across from Braunsbach - Winterberg , 1.2 km and approx. 0.6 km². Rises at about 437 m above sea level. NHN a source at the southern edge of the copse woods beside the road Laßbach-Künzelsau- Vogelsberg .
- Flows through at about 428 m above sea level. NHN a pond dammed behind a dirt road about 0.6 km east-southeast of the center of Vogelsberg, 0.3 ha.
Hirschbach , finally through the Heerklinge (!), From the left and east to about 273.7 m above sea level. NHN near Braunsbach- Sommerberg , 2.3 km and approx. 3.0 km². Arises at about 434 m above sea level. NHN in the forest on the Gewann Hirschplatte next to the L 2547 from near Tierberg to Braunsbach- Zottishofen .
This upper course is about a third shorter than the Weilersbach itself up to the tributary, but exceeds its accumulated catchment area up to there by about a tenth.
- Heerbach (!), From the right and east-northeast to about 338.9 m above sea level. NHN about 0.3 km southeast of and below Braunsbach- Tierberg , 1.6 km and about 0.8 km². Arises at about 449 m above sea level. NHN on the southern edge of the forest spur High Hölzle to the hallway Won Stöckwiesen .

Mouth of the hamlet from the right and northeast to almost 228.5 m above sea level. NHN near the hamlet of Weilersbach in the community of Braunsbach in the middle Kocher . The Weilersbach is 4.6 km long and has a 6.5 km² catchment area.

geology

On the eastern edge of the catchment area lies the Lettenkeuper ( Erfurt Formation ) of the Unterkeuper , which is the highest Mesozoic layer in the area in the deposition sequence , which extends in tongues far west-south-west on the spurs between the four water valleys of the brook system and furthest along the outer watersheds. This layer takes up about half of the catchment area.

Where the blade notches typical of the landscape begin, the streams change into the Upper Muschelkalk below . Only after the inflow of the Heerbach or after the inflow of the creek from the Greut , Weilersbach and Hirschbach reach the Middle Muschelkalk about 0.6–0.7 km before their own union . Shortly after this last confluence, the Weilersbach runs in the Lower Muschelkalk , at the level of which it also flows into the Kocher.

Loess sediment from Quaternary deposits is found as an island above the Lettenkeuper in Greut southwest of Laßbach and twice on the plateau to the left of the upper Hirschbach. In some places there are small Quaternary landslides on the Middle and Upper Muschelkalk; two opposite at the middle Weilersbach west of Tierberg ensure a valley narrowing between Eckberg and Tierberger Sporn.

The beginnings of the stream on the flat plateau run mostly in alluvial sediment until the beginning of the blade incisions; the same Holocene stratum is found in the course of the Weilersbach valley again shortly before the inflow of the Hirschbach and accompanies it from there to the end of the valley near Weilersbach, from where the stream has advanced a flat cone to the Kocher.

The karstification of the Upper Muschelkalks shows a row of sinkholes to the left of the middle Hirschbach approximately at the level of the upper bend in the slope; One of these sinkholes in the Heerwiese clearing has a shaft connection to an approx. 0.6 km long vadose karst cave. Further towards the southern watershed, at the edge of the Salenwiese forest clearing, there is another, quite extensive sinkhole in which three small channels disappear in a ponor ; it is protected as a geotope.

Nature and protected areas

The Weilersbach, initially a ditch, shows a more natural picture after crossing the state road in the south of Laßbach am Oberlauf. It runs in an initially earthy-muddy, later fine-gravel-stony half-meter to meter-wide bed through an often narrow floodplain forest of predominantly ash and alder. It is sometimes dry in sections.

From the beginning of its upper course on the other side of another road crossing, it cuts more and more narrow and steep. Now there is forest, in which bare rock can be seen to the east, partly up to the bend in the slope, which shows bare rock in places and from which seepage springs sometimes emerge. Underneath, the up to two meter wide bed of the brook gently meanders and becomes more and more stony; this falls down over small rock steps, but also dries up at times.

Only after the right side blade inlet from Vogelsberg, the bend there and the small hamlet of Winterberg on the left on the lower slope does the valley open from the edge of the tree gallery that continues to accompany the stream up to the slopes. On the right the first stone bars run down, the sequence of which continues to the edge of the Kocher valley. Opposite at the spur of Tierberg Castle there are also some stone bars, grasslands and hedges, these landscape elements pull up around it into the also open Untertal of the Hirschbach, which flows slightly downwards. After its mouth, the Weilersbach is two to three meters wide and its bottom is sunk up to two meters deep into the valley floor. The hamlet of Sommerberg then stretches along a street on the right lower slope under the Steinriegeln and above the Bachgalerie, which only becomes thin and exposed due to the hamlet of Weilersbach, which is close to the mouth.

The stream from the Greut , the Heerbach and the Hirschbach in front of its open Untertal run in wooded blades similar to that of the Weilersbach.

The forest heights left above the Gewässerzug Heerbach-Hirschbach-Weilersbach there in forest clearings - a very large lies in Won Hirschbach , one at Hammel blow , one on the deer plate , plus there is the sale area , the army meadow and also a part of the clearing Gewanns Brühl , In which there is a small pond just outside the catchment area border - some wet and wet meadows, some with spring areas and with occurrences of the globe flower . Some of these are protected as natural monuments. Above the Heerbach origin, across the eastern border of the catchment area, the Schanzäcker natural monument lies in the forest next to a bay , where non-linear wall and ditch structures can be seen.

The majority of the blades and lower valleys as well as a large part of the forest heights in the southern catchment area are located in the Kochertal landscape protection area between Schwäbisch Hall and Weilersbach with side valleys that take up more than a third of its area. North of the village of Weilersbach, the area under landscape protection continues directly in a small marginal gusset of the neighboring area Kochertal near Kocherstetten .

There, a water protection area in the Künzelsau district of Kocherstetten protrudes over the northwestern catchment area border. A smaller water protection area south-east of Laßbach up to the right bank of the Weilersbach-Oberlauf lies halfway on this side of the watershed.

Individual evidence

LUBW

Official online waterway map with a suitable section and the layers used here: Course and catchment area of the Weilersbach
General introduction without default settings and layers: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( notes )

↑ ^a ^b ^c Height according to the contour line image on the background layer topographic map .

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Height according to black lettering on the background layer topographic map .

↑ ^a ^b Length according to the waterway network layer ( AWGN ) .

↑ ^a ^{b Catchment} area after the basic catchment area layer (AWGN) .

↑ Lake area after the layer standing waters .

↑ Catchment area measured on the background layer topographic map .

↑ Length measured on the background layer topographic map .

^ Row of sinkholes after the biotope layer .

↑ Geotope profile of the sinkhole on the Salenwiese (PDF, 390 kByte) based on the geotope layer .

↑ Protected areas according to the relevant layers, nature partly according to the biotope layer .

Other evidence

↑ Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)

↑ Geology according to the layers for Geological Map 1: 50,000 on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes )

literature

Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 6724 Künzelsau

Web links

Map of the course and catchment area of the Weilersbach on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
Measuring table sheet 6724 Künzelsau from 1932 in the Deutsche Fotothek

[TK-HLB-Höhe-1] Height according to the contour line image on the background layer topographic map .

[TK-Schwarz-Höhe-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Height according to black lettering on the background layer topographic map .

[BfL-162-5] Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)