Aalenbach

The Aalen bei Small Altdorf

The Aalen Bach, called the lower reaches Äulesbach, is a 9.6 km long water in northeastern Baden- Württemberg, which flows from right near Vellberg - Talheim in the Buhler.

Origin and Evolution

The eels creek rises in the corner, the Castle Mountain Forest northwest stretches towards Ilshofen- Eckartshausen, at about 455 m, in a blade a few steps south of the junction of forest road from Ilshofen- Eckartshausen to the castle hill with the forest of Crailsheim oil house after Vellberg Lawrence rooms. Not each kilometers northwest or southeast this point forth the slightly larger neighboring waters Schmerach and Maulach. From the source of the stream running towards the southwest, these he keeps to its mouth on the whole at.

After about 700 m distance and 30 m slope of the creek enters from his forest blade and into a wide and flat -floor bay, then take right from the left the slightly longer stream from the Dachsbauklinge on and then passes the gypsum mining in Gänswasen on its right slope, which reached him from the left, another feed from the devil blade. A little later he crosses in there almost imperceptible trough the hamlet Vellberg Lawrence rooms, in which he also intersects the L - 1040 Oberschmerach Vellberg, shortly after him run from the right side only a short trench, then to the left of the Brühlbach. Its valley is now more pronounced, he takes in succession from right to Baierbach and Razenbach, then left the room creek.

On his right slope are now the first houses of the village Vellberg - Großaltdorf that has grown together with the adjacent Vellberg Small Altdorf, their common southwestern settlement boundary follows the creek to almost 2 km half over the valley. In this case, this first pass under again the L 1040, then picks up from left to Steppach, its longest tributary of the upper reaches, and finally reaches the K 2665 from Spaichbühl on a causeway across the lower valley small Altdorf. After the city limits him soon flow to the bird creek from the left and the mill stream from the right, then something down the valley from the right of the wide field ditch, which limits the industrial area Vellbergs at the headwaters.

While he was on his route in the corridor until now, widely straightened eingeböscht and the center of its trough flowed reserved, he now begins to lie in close Wiesenmäander. So he reached it again the L 1040 Crossing it, the Vellberger Teilort Talheim where reached him from his longest left tributary any, of the real stream. He still pulls right at the feet of Talheimer settlement over and then turns abruptly for the last 300 m of its course to the west, then to open at about 332 m from the right in the Buhler. To his left is on this last section of the small mountain floor of Vellberger Stöckenburg.

In the section between the source blade outlet and small Altdorf at best sparse woody shore accompanied the creek. The valley is low populated and dominated by agricultural use.

Catchment area

The catchment area of ​​19.3 km ² comprises Aalen Bach. In the north- west and north it borders on that of Schmerach, in the northeast of the short Maulach, in the East competes Speltach, south of which opens at Vellberg - Eschenau in the Buhler ( Schneckenweiler ) Lanzenbach. West of the watershed strive some rather short water straight to Buhler, especially the bins meadow brook and the brook by the Kappisklinge.

The Aalen Bach is a step edge of water which runs just in front of the north western edge of the castle hill forest. He learns the most inlet consequently from left, especially from three relatively long tributaries (Bach through the Devil's Blade, Steppach, Real Bach), who buried wide bays or steep blade in the adjacent highlands. The Steppach taps it on from above, more and more ( Frankenhardt - Bonolzhofer ) Seebach, one of the headwaters of the Schmerach. From the northern slope of the mountain to the south Hack Real Brook headwaters Seebach slide down from time to time slope parts from; the severe erosion on the northern Real Bach headwaters Hilpert Klingenbachstrasse is not difficult to see from a line extending to the right upper blade slope forest road.

Geology

The eels creek rises in Gipskeuper ( grave field formation ) and runs mostly in Lettenkeuper. For small Altdorf, the creek bed cuts at a distance of about one mile in the Upper Muschelkalk. At the bend just before its mouth it crosses the Vellberger rejection.

On the slopes or the edge of the mountains eels creek there are several places where gypsum was mined or will be: East of Lorenz rooms on the right foot of the slope in the " Gänswasen " is a smaller, more active break. Northwest Lorenz Zimmern is an already abandoned gypsum quarry, which is a verbuschendes nature reserve today. Between Großaltdorf and Talheim of the valley on the west side of the Äulesberg - west crest is operated a highly visible open pit, at the Kreuzhalde on the left side of the valley opposite is obtained from a tunnel by mining anhydrite.

The local area of ​​Talheim a ducted today, a short tributary of the real Bach follows the alleyways of Hilpert ago, he rises in the border area of Gipskeuper and Lettenkeuper, where it has created a longer Kalksinterbank.

Communities

After the first half a kilometer of the forest, which lies on Crailsheim district, the Aalen stream runs only on Vellberger district. At the catchment area still Frankenhardt east of Vellberg - Talheim has a small stake, with mountain and forest house Neuberg; to Ilshofen are insignificant gusset in the west and northwest.

System of inflows

• Aalen stream, flows from the right at Talheim in Buhler, 9.6 km long. Bach by the Dachsbauklinge, hall Wolfsee flows from left east of Vellberg Lawrence rooms, 0.8 km long.
• Bach by the devil blade, joins from the left, opposite hallway Gänswasen east of Vellberg Lawrence rooms, 1.7 km long.
• Dig a little to the west and parallel to L in 1040 at Vellberg Lawrence rooms, joins from the right tight to Vellberg Lawrence rooms, 0.4 km long.
• Brühlbach, joins from the left shortly after Vellberg Lawrence rooms, 1.0 km long.
• Baierbach / Emersbach, joins from the right between Vellberg Lawrence rooms and Vellberg - Großaltdorf 0.6 km long.
• Razenbach, joins from the right on the eastern outskirts of Vellberg - Großaltdorf, 1,3 km long.
• Rooms Bach, joins from the left towards the eastern outskirts of Vellberg Lawrence rooms, 1.6 km long.
• Steppach, joins from the left, opposite Vellberg Small Altdorf, 2,6 km long. Bach from the King's Well, joins from the left edge of the corridor inlet at the foot of the rising of 2665 K and 0.6 km long.

• Hilpert Klingenbachstrasse right Quellast, south of the confluence Vellberg Hilpert, 1.4 km long.
• Seebach left Quellast, south of the confluence Hilpert, 1,3 km long. Bach in the forest north extending blade opens from left south of Frankenhardt -Neuberg, 0,5 km long.