Elz (Neckar)

Elz in Dallau

The Elz, also called Elzbach, is a small right tributary ( stream ) of the Neckar river in the Neckar -Odenwald district, in Baden -Württemberg of more than 39 km in length. It flows from north to south the southeastern Odenwald. The mouth is located 407 m deeper than the source.

Course

The Elz rises in the southeastern Odenwald northwest of Mudau top Scheidental at an altitude of 540 m above sea level. NN. They first flows through fields and meadows in the southeast to Upper Scheidental to pass the old village center of the village in the south-west and then draws a line to the northeast, where it flows through the village under Scheidental. Even in the new direction it is fed by the coming of the left Waldauerbach Eisengraben, one kilometer from this parallel running water intoxication. Then they reached the top Langenelz Mudauer district and is now in another arc, during which it still crosses Central Langenelz and sub ​​- Langenelz happened, and she runs quite a long time about the south.

At the Einbacher mill, the next place of settlement in the valley, it is deepened over 70 m over the summit of Kandel Ackers on the right. At her equal following Laude Berger granulator their flows coming from the northeast from the same Buchener village Einbach to below the above the wooded right side of the valley Limbacher hamlet Laude mountain itself it falls in a right loop of Laudenbach on through the village, the above the village produced in the corn steep blade.

In the following Southeast sling their valley borders for the first time again with the southern district of Limbach- Scheringen a large settlement to the right bank; here it runs from the east of the country ditch. In other Southern Stream through their narrow here, with stock of forest valley is its next settlement site again only a single property, namely, the Limbacher mill for about a kilometer southeast of the eponymous and talfernen municipal seat of the municipality. Continue down the valley between the salt wells in the East and Southern Lord forest in the west has its valley continues südwärtiges a short West offset; here the river flow is strengthened by the Lautzenbrücken blade from the northeast. From the same following Heidersbacher mill forces its way through between the slope forests of the Sauheide and thicknesses shock and reaches now in a striking valley widening Elztalhotel - Ritterbach, the first valley village since Langenelz, at the northern edge of watching stream reaches from the left. In the village the B 27 increases from the north to the valley, but if it keeps its narrowness far to the middle slope.

After Ritterbach it strives henceforth always to the southwest, initially left on the Vistula River Forest over. Then the Muckbach feeds it from the side. In constant direction it flows on Herrmannsberg over the southeast, taking over from on the hardware platforms blade, then again from the east coming from the village of the same Auerbach. Here also the railway line Osterburken - Neckarelz enters into the valley and then cuts equal to a tunnel under the Erstwald close Northwest loop of the valley from. After this spreads across the valley and the left slope of the biggest ever place Elztalhotel - Dallau from which lies the old village at the Talmündung of the coming of the East Lutenbaches. Prior to the southwestern border settlement Dallaus still flows from a small Seitentalmulde from the left of the Danterquellgraben before it strengthens below the last industrial buildings in the flood plain of the more important Trienzbach from the north. From now on, the valley remains, and the forest is hardly enough ever again to the flood plain down. In Neckarburken where the limit line crosses the valley, you are granted the Büchel thorn blade and the blade of the north ditch.

Beyond the Mosbacher city boundary still follows in the same direction of the muzzle of the Hasbach, before the satellite settlement forest city above on the right Talhügel the wolf pit, then from the opposite side of the creek through the Bonschelklinge, in the discharge area, the Mosbacher John diakonia is. From left running on the northern edge of the blade to the center Mosbacher center, then colonized far up to the starting button blade tributary of both continuous stream. However, the largest inflow in the narrow city area is the Nüstenbach at the swimming pool, the herfließt from the northern district of the same name located. To the west of the assembled with the city center Neckarelz the Elz river finally flows at an altitude of 133 m above sea level. NN from the right into the Neckar.

Outflow

The outflow of Elz fluctuates seasonally strong. So Mosbach were at low tide on 31 October 1985 0.38 m³ / s m³ / s, measured in daily average and during flood on 1 February 1985 23.83 daily average.

Communities, places and settlements on the Elz

  • Community Mudau
  • Upper Scheidental (village)
  • Under Scheidental (village)
  • Upper, Middle and Lower Langenelz ( just a village )
  • City Book (only residents, left)
  • Einbacher mill ( homestead, Einbach, left)
  • Town of Limbach
  • Cutting mill ( home to Laude mountain, right)
  • Scheringen (village, left)
  • Limbacher mill ( home to Limbach, right)
  • Heidersbacher mill ( home to Heider Bach, left)
  • Community Elztalhotel
  • Ritterbach
  • Upper Mill ( home to Dallau, right)
  • Dallau (village)
  • Neckarburken (mostly left)
  • Large district Mosbach
  • John diakonia (place, the main town of Mosbach, left)
  • Mosbach ( core city)
  • Hammerweg (district, the main town of Mosbach, right)
  • Neckarelz (district )

Biosphere

Flora

In conservation areas Mosbach you can before the poor soils and the Kalkmagerasen in nutrient-rich zones meet the oat grass meadows. The Wacholderheide happens. While one may encounter in the heath thorny plants such as juniper, the sloe, the thistle and the bitter gentian fringes, can be found in dry meadows orchid species like the bumble bee orchid. Furthermore come before the privet, dogwood, hawthorn, barberry, and various rose bushes in the nature reserves. Even the Bloody Cranesbill, the Kalkaster and branchy lily grass are zufinden.

Fauna

In the Elz come include the following species of fish: bullhead, minnow, loach, brook and rainbow trout, chub, dace, eel, gudgeon and bleak. In the Waterside area of the Elz can dippers, wagtails and kingfishers encounter. In the nature reserves in Mosbach Wryneck and the Redstart lives. Even the rose beetle, the burnet, the White Cohesive Heath, the Wall Brown, the heath grasshopper, the blue -winged grasshopper, and the cross jumping spider occur there.

Inflows

  • Eisengraben (left)
  • Water intoxication (left)
  • Steinigsbächlein (left)
  • Einbach (left)
  • Corn blade ( right)
  • Landgraben (left)
  • Lautzenbrücken blade ( right)
  • Watching Bach ( left)
  • Muckbach (right)
  • Hardware platforms blade ( right)
  • Auerbach ( left)
  • Dachsbauklinge (right)
  • Lutenbach (left)
  • Danterquellgraben (left)
  • Trienzbach (right)
  • Büchel thorn blade ( left)
  • Blade trench ( right)
  • Hasbach (right)
  • Wolf trench ( right)
  • Bonschelklinge (left)
  • Means blade ( left)
  • Button blade ( left)
  • Nüstenbach (right)
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