Welzbach (Main)

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Welzbach
(upper course: Pflaumbach )
The Welzbach towards Schönbusch

The Welzbach towards Schönbusch

Data
Water code DE : 247592
location Odenwald

Hesse

Bavaria

River system Rhine
Drain over Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
source on the Alten Höhe ( 370  m above sea level ) between Radheim and Raibach near the wind turbine
49 ° 52 ′ 8 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 21 ″  E
Source height 300  m above sea level NN
muzzle to the Schönbusch Park in Aschaffenburg Bavaria harbor in the Main Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 6 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 21 ″  E 49 ° 58 ′ 6 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 21 ″  E
Mouth height 108  m above sea level NN
Height difference 192 m
Bottom slope 14 ‰
length 14.2 km   through Niedernberg
16.3 km   through Schönbusch
Catchment area 61.52 km²
Left tributaries Hebach
Right tributaries Flood ditch
The Welzbach (back right) flows into the Upper Lake in Schönbusch

The Welzbach (back right)
flows into the Upper Lake in Schönbusch

The Welzbach is an approximately 15 km long tributary of the Main in southeast Hesse and northwest Bavaria .

Surname

Despite its short length, the stream has changing names - it is called "Pflaumbach" in Radheim , Mosbach and Pflaumheim , "Mühlbach" in Wenigumstadt and "Welzbach" from Großostheim. The Welzbach is the namesake for several streets in the region, a sports hall in Großostheim, and the brass band "Die Welzbachmusikanten".

geography

course

The Welzbach in the Radheim Forest, still called Pflaumbach here

The Welzbach source is located in the Klein-Umstadt district to the east and south-east of the Binselberg and the wind turbines there on the north-eastern foothills of the Odenwald . The stream flows northeast over the Schaafheimer district Radheim and through the Bachgau , in the center of which lies the Großostheim market . The Welzbach used to flow above ground along the Bachstrasse there . It was channeled there in 1932, and in the late 1960s it was diverted to a newly built channel on the Wildgraben as part of the construction of the Großostheim sewage treatment plant . Since then, the canal in Bachstrasse has only served as a sewer.

If the Welzbach used to flow into the Main on the northern edge of the Niedernberg district , it was diverted into the Main as part of the establishment of the Schönbusch Landscape Park and now flows into the Main in the west of Aschaffenburg ( unfortunately district ) in the Bavarian port of Aschaffenburg . However, even now a small part of the water as well as the entire process of the Großostheim sewage treatment plant located here flows at a river bifurcation into the old Niedernberger Arm, the so-called flood ditch and then on the old route to the river. In its further course, the Welzbach feeds the lakes in the Schönbusch Landscape Park in Aschaffenburg; in Schönbusch itself, the stream is divided into several branches and is used as a landscape design element. After crossing the landscape park, the Welzbach first crosses under the federal highway 26 in a long pipeline, this pipeline then flows directly into the port basin I of the Bavaria port Aschaffenburg.

Tributaries

  • Hebach (left)
  • Baumertsgraben (left, temporarily dry)
  • Bettgesgraben (right, temporarily dry)
  • Dürrbach (left, temporarily dry)

Drains

See also

Web links

Commons : Welzbach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  2. ↑ Directory of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area, page 156 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB)
  3. ↑ Am Pflaumbach in Radheim (picture)
  4. ↑ Canal: construction phases determined . In: Main-Netz , September 11, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
  5. ↑ Wildgraben grave of millions . In: Main-Netz , August 20, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
  6. ↑ http://www.geschichte-untermain.de/f_bamberger_fernbesitz.html