Bieber (Kinzig)

The Bieber in Kassel

The Bieber ( vone left) opens into the Kinzig

The Bieber is a 16.8 km long liberal and southern tributary of the Kinzig in the Main- Kinzig district, in Hesse Spessart.

Geography

Alexander Scharff- source

The Bieber source lies southeast of Biebergemünd - Roehrig. Previously, the stream of the Great Bieber source, which is taken as Alexander Scharff- source since 1876 and, along with twelve other sources arose in the Spessart, including the next-door source Frankfurt ( previously Small Bieber Source ), today feeds it into the drinking water supply of Frankfurt am Main. These two sources have no surface drainage to Bieber anymore, so she rises several meters today today in wet meadows down the valley. At times, dine nor overflows from some other sources taken the young Bach. After heavy rain or snow melt, the stream is created even further up the valley. The bed of the water-bearing upper reaches is then passed around the drinking water sources and flows from the right in the ordinary course of Bieber.

Course

About 500 m after its source is amplified by the often larger Obermuller Bach Bieber. Later she runs through the municipality Biebergemünd with its districts Bieber, Rossbach, Lanz rings and Kassel. There she takes on her biggest tributary, the Kassel Bach. Near the district Wirtheim the Bieber opens into the Kinzig.

Inflows

  • Obermuller Bach ( right) ( 0,3 km)
  • Haßbach (left) (1,1 km )
  • Under Müller Bach ( right) (1.0 miles)
  • Sellbach (right) (1.0 miles)
  • Elsenbach (right ) (0.5 miles)
  • Büchel Bach ( right) (1.0 miles)
  • Schwarzenbach ( left) (3,4 km )
  • Big Rossbach (left) (2,6 km )
  • Small Rossbach (left) (2.1 miles)
  • Lützelbach (left) ( 5.8 km )
  • Kassel Bach ( right) ( 6.9 km )
  • Haitzbach (left) (1,9 km )

And character data

The Bieber is a fine material rich siliceous means mountain stream. Its catchment area is 81.21 km ² and its mean discharge ( MQ ) is 809 liters per second. The ecological condition of the stream is estimated to be moderate.

Biosphere

In the area of ​​Bieber et al come Brook lamprey, bullhead and dippers before.

Drinking water sources

In the catchment area of Bieber are several drinking water sources that feed into the drinking water supply of Frankfurt am Main. They are in and Bieber in Kassel base in a 29 -hectare area. The source vessels were built in 1874. They were grown in several meters depth on the upcoming red sandstone rocks. That there springing water is merged into a vaulted chamber wells, of these go from two tubes; the common discharge pipe leads the water source to the collecting chambers, the drain pipe if necessary, initiate tarnished or excess water from the fountain chamber from the valley. The version systems are accessible via an entrance door, behind which a staircase leads down to the antechamber, for maintenance. To protect the water source from contamination, deny more iron doors give access to the well chambers and antechambers.

A 1.8 m wide and high tunnels connecting all drinking water sources together. It runs on the side of a 600 mm thick tube. The studs are everywhere at least two feet below the ground and are accessible along its entire length. Every few hundred meters are furnished Revision access for cleaning and maintenance, and overflow chambers. This is about ten kilometers long cast-iron pressure pipe crosses under after the treatment plant at Gieserborn means of a culvert the Kinzig and ends on collecting on the Aspen Hainer head at New Wirtheim. There, the Spessart drinking water is combined with the water from the Vogelsberg sources. Due to the pressure tube of the Spessart springs flow a maximum of about 100 l / s

In the " catchment area Spessart " are the sources of drinking water (in brackets the average bed ):

  • Alexander Scharff- source (12 l / s)
  • Source Frankfurt (1.3 l / s)
  • Glasborn (8.7 l / s)
  • Obermuller ( 20.5 l / s)
  • Under Müller ( 2.1 l / s)
  • Born roof (5.2 l / s)
  • Steinborn
  • Mountain spring
  • Elsenbach
  • Hummel Born ( 9.2 l / s)
  • Cassel base ( 1.2 l / s)
  • Langenborn ( 0.4 l / s)
  • Wide Ruhborn ( 18.3 l / s)
  • Gieserborn (10,7 l / s)
  • Channel Born
  • Alexander Scharff- source
  • Source Frankfurt
  • Glasborn
  • Obermuller
  • Under Muller
  • Born roof
  • Elsenbach
  • Cassel reason
  • Wide quiet Born
  • Langenborn
  • Gieserborn
  • Channel Born
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