Westernach (Mindel)

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Westernach
Data
Water code EN : 1162
location Northern Alpine Foreland

Bavaria

River system Danube
Drain over Mindel  → Danube  → Black Sea
confluence from the left Katzbruier Bach (main upper course) and right Eßmühler Bach
47 ° 58 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 32 ″  E
Source height 671  m
muzzle from left to Mindel coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 3 ″  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 21 ″  E 48 ° 5 ′ 3 ″  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 21 ″  E
Mouth height 578  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 93 m
Bottom slope 5.9 ‰
length 15.7 km
Catchment area 60.28 km²
Left tributaries Auerbach
Right tributaries Magnus Gully
Reservoirs flowed through Unggenrieder Weiher
The Brunnenbach, here at the Mindelheim Nature School, is an artificially created side arm that branches off from the Westernach
The Papierbach diverts the water from the hillside springs and flows north of the outdoor pool into the Mindel

The Westernach is an almost 16 kilometer long stream in the Unterallgäu district, running roughly northwards. It arises at 671  m above sea level. NHN south of Grünegg from the right upper course Eßmühler Bach and the left, with 4.3 km both longer and 6.8 km² more catchment area Katzbruier Bach , whose source at about 730  m above sea level. NHN is located southeast of the small village of Hinterbuchenbrunn in Markt Rettenbach and is thus higher than that of the Eßmühler Bach.

At the middle course, a side arm Brunnenbach goes west of Apfeltrach from the Westernach to the right and flows out at about 607  m above sea level. NHN between Gernstall and Mindelheim from the left into the Mindel . The Brunnenbach was created about 200 years ago as a canal for a paper mill that no longer exists today at the level of today's Mindelheim outdoor pool, at that time it also took on the drainage of the so-called Seven Springs . At a later time, the course at today's nature teaching garden was separated - the Brunnenbach flows along the railway line south of the city into the Mindel, while the spring runoff from the slope flows into the Mindel via the so-called paper creek at the location of the paper mill north of the outdoor pool.

Between the separation of the Brunnenbach and the mouth of the Auerbach near Unterauerbach, the Westernach is dammed up to the Unggenrieder Weihern.

It finally empties at 578  m above sea level. NHN less than a kilometer below the Wiesmühle down the city of Mindelheim from the left into the Mindel.

Tributaries

Places on the Westernach

  • in the community of Apfeltrach :
    • Grünegg
  • in the city of Mindelheim :
    • Unggenried
    • Unterauerbach
    • Westernach

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 188/194 Kaufbeuren / Mittenwald. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1993. →  Online map (PDF; 6.4 MB)
  2. ^ Hans Graul : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 180 Augsburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
  3. ↑ a b c Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  4. ↑ a b c d Length and catchment area according to: List of creek and river areas in Bavaria - Danube river area from source to Lech, page 37 of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, as of 2016 (PDF; 2.3 MB) (including the following page; page numbers can change)
  5. ↑ "Dispute over 60 liters of water" , article in the Augsburger Allgemeine from October 19, 2011
  6. ↑ "It all started with the paper mill" , article in the Augsburger Allgemeine from December 7, 2010