Westerbach (Kahl)

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Westerbach
( Historically : Westernkahl )
The Westerbach below the Klotzenmühle

The Westerbach below the Klotzenmühle

Data
Water code DE : 247722
location Spessart

Bavaria

River system Rhine
Drain over Kahl  → Main  → Rhine  → North Sea
origin Confluence of the Querbach and Huckelheimer Bach in Huckelheim
50 ° 7 ′ 39 ″  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 27 ″  E
Source height 256  m above sea level NHN  (at the confluence)
muzzle in Schöllkrippen in the Kahl coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 10 ″  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 40 ″  E 50 ° 5 ′ 10 ″  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 40 ″  E
Mouth height 203  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 53 m
Bottom slope 8.4 ‰
length 6.3 km   from the confluence
8.3 km  with the Querbach
Catchment area 23.34 km²
Left tributaries Kleidersbach , Schulzengrundbach , Herzbach , Rotermichbach
Right tributaries Hombach , Dörnsenbach , Schneppenbach , Betzenbach
The Westerbach between Unterwestern and Schneppenbach

The Westerbach between Unterwestern and Schneppenbach

The Westerbach, also known as the Westernkahl , is a 6.3 km long right tributary of the Kahl , which flows through the Westerngrund in the district of Aschaffenburg in the Bavarian Spessart . It arises in the district of Huckelheim through the confluence of the Querbach and Huckelheimer Bach .

Surname

The original name Western (around 1282 Weysluthera ) is made up of three parts of the name. The Middle High German basic word is an abbreviation of ahe , which means water . The Old High German middle link Hludira stands for rushing . The first part of the name comes from the Old High German word Weiz , which means wheat . Accordingly, it was a rushing stream on which wheat was grown.

The Western gave their names to the Westerngrund and the municipality of Westerngrund with the districts of Upper and Lower Western .

geography

Spring streams

Querbach

The Querbach rises from the Arzborn (sometimes called Atzborn), a larger spring on the Hohen Querberg (474 m), northeast of Huckelheim, near the state border with Hesse . At 2 km, the Querbach is the longer source stream.

Huckelheim Bach

The 1.5 km long Huckelheimer Bach rises north of Huckelheim. It feeds a pond and joins the Querbach in Huckelheim .

course

After the union of the two source streams, the Westerbach flows parallel to the AB 14 district road in a southerly direction through Oberwestern , which belongs to the municipality of Westerngrund . There he takes up the water of the Herzbach . The geographic center of the EU has been on its left valley slopes since 2013 . The Westerbach runs past the hamlet of Polsterhof to Unterwestern , where the Rotermichbach, which rises at the Heiligkreuzkapelle, flows into it. The Schneppenbach flows into the Westerbach as the largest tributary in Schneppenbach . In Schöllkrippen it reaches the Kahltal , where it is led into a concrete channel and flows into the Kahl at the intersection of state roads 2305 and 2306 .

Alongside the Geiselbach , Reichenbach and Sommerkahl, the Westerbach is one of the largest tributaries of the Kahl.

Tributaries

Kahl river system

history

Mills

Similar to the Kahltal , there were also some mills in the Westerngrund, all of which are now closed. The Westerbach and a number of other bed springs from the Buntsandsteinspessart provided enough water for the drive. Today almost all mill wheels have disappeared, but in a few mills the interior furnishings are still there, of others only the name remains.

  • Stocksmühle (Huckelheim, on the Huckelheimer Bach)
  • Mittelmühle (Huckelheim, am Querbach)
  • Kleinsmühle (Huckelheim, on the Huckelheimer Bach)
  • Grundmühle (Huckelheim)
  • Krause Mühle (Oberwestern)
  • Büttnersmühle (Oberwestern)
  • Unterwestern-Mühle (Unterwestern)
  • Klotzenmühle (Unterwestern)
  • Reusing mill (Schneppenbach)
  • Reusing oil mill (Schneppenbach)
  • Neumühle (Schöllkrippen)

See also

Web links

Commons : Westerbach  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bayernviewer of the Bavarian Surveying Administration: Historical maps from the years 1817–1841 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geodaten.bayern.de
  2. ↑ a b c Hessian Land Surveying Office
  3. ↑ GeoFachDatenAtlas and water services of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment
  4. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  5. ↑ Directory of brook and river areas in Bavaria - Main river area of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 3.3 MB)
  6. ↑ Our Kahlgrund 1980 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN  0933-1328 . Name of the headwaters of the Klotzenmühle: Westernkahl
  7. ^ Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 240–241 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ a b Our Kahlgrund 1988/89 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN  0933-1328 .
  9. ↑ a b c Main-Echo Aschaffenburg: Independent daily newspaper on the Main July 21, 2012: Grenzbach, Link, wild water: Through Westerngrund (10): The Westerbach - namesake of the community - once powered by ten mills - devastating flood in August 1981