Glems

Glems wells

The Glems is a right tributary of the River Enz in Baden- Württemberg. It rises in the Glemswald in the nature reserve Deer Park in the south west of the state capital Stuttgart ( district of Stuttgart- West) and flows through the districts of Böblingen and Ludwigsburg. Your flow length is 47.2 km, its catchment area covers 195 km ².

• 2.1 floods

Geography

The headwaters of the Glems located in Glemswald, in the South German Keuper mountains, at an altitude of approximately 460 m above sea level. NN. There is a valley formation and but only intermittently water-bearing course. The so-called Glems wells located further down the valley towards the south-southeast, namely at the southern end of the clearing Glems meadow at about 435 m above sea level. NN. More about 300 meters down the valley flows through the young waters as a small forest stream to about 12 a large Glems pond and then flows into the Pfaffensee - one of the Stuttgarter Park lakes. This lake was created in 1566 by damming the Glems as a water reservoir, it extends to the west. At it joins below the new lake, which continuously emits a bottom outlet water to the water. At high filling this lake after persistent rainfall of New Lake is the stream from even an overflow of water. After passing under the road Magstadter the Glems occurs at smaller glacial lakes back to the surface. Here ends also the coming of the south Katzenbach, which contributes noticeably to the water supply of the Glems at the headwaters.

The Glems follows then continue west to the so-called Mahdental. After about 500 m, it leaves in its attachment to the little settlement Glemstal the city of Stuttgart and replaced after about 4 km run in the district of Leonberg and thus in the district of Böblingen over. South of Leonberg, the comparatively narrow Mahdental opens below the castle ruins Glemseck to a vast plain. After about 5 km, on which they were last the city of Leonberg crosses the south, then wraps around at an altitude of around 350 meters above sea level. NN low tuft hole mountain ( Natural Monument and bird sanctuary ) and then changes suddenly between the Leonberger districts Silberberg and Garden City from the western to the north-east direction. This 130 -degree turn is called Glems knee, according to her, her valley digs soon again and is tortuous; approximately at Höfingen it reaches namely, recognizable by the steep valley slopes, the Upper Muschelkalk. After crossing the territory of the district Ludwigsburg Glems pervades the Strohgäu where it passes through the communities Ditzingen, Hemmingen, Korntal, Schwieberdingen and Markgroningen.

In Ditzingen, where it is partially verdolt, it changes while its direction again and pulls off now in northern directions. The valley is here despite the Muschelkalk initially quite flat and wide. Only towards Schwieberdingen to and along the lower reaches of the valley is much narrower again and again partially supports hillside forest. Striking cliffs there are then at Markgroningen where on the eastern slope is also wine.

North of the Markgröninger district Unterriexingen the Glems finally ends at an altitude of 188 m above sea level. NN in the Enz

Tributaries of the Glems

• Bernhard Bach ( right tributary, flows into the Bear Lake, which in turn delivers water to the new lake )
• Katzenbach ( left tributary of the river, in the district of Stuttgart Büsnau )
• Krummbach ( right tributary, in Leonberg )
• Rohrbach ( left tributary, the Glemseck in Leonberg )
• Water stream ( left tributary, the forelock hole mountain in Leonberg )
• Lindenbachstrasse, ( right tributary, in Ditzingen )
• Gaichelgraben ( left tributary inflow, at Hagmühle )
• Aischbach ( right tributary, in Schwieberdingen )

History

The middle portion of Glems formed in the 6th to 8th century, the tribal boundary between Swabia and Franconia, later here the boundary ran between the two bishoprics of Speyer and consistency.

Floods

In the 20th century occurred at the Glems in regular repetition severe flooding on. As in countless other Central European rivers was in the 1960s, therefore, also attempts to dispel these floods by water regulation. That the Verdolungen straightening and made ​​the flood problem did not solve, but affected the aesthetic and ecological value of the water body strong, soon became apparent here as well. In the catchment area of the Glems there is very little forest, but much of intensively used, often also drained agricultural land. A very large proportion of the catchment area is also sealed.

On July 4, 2010 fell on a thunderstorm in a short time, between 70 and 100 mm of rainfall. In Ditzingen the treatment plant was flooded, which probably came untreated sewage into the Glems. Alone in Schwieberdingen, where the water was five feet high on the road, were affected at least 200 households. At the level Talhausen the Glems reached an outflow of about 49 cubic meters per second, an outflow of 42 m³ / s corresponds to a statistically hundred year flood. Similarly, strong floods had almost to the day exactly one year before, given on 3 July 2009.

The Glems Mills Bicycle Trail

The Glems is well lined with mills. The approximately 40 kilometers long, signposted Glems mills cycle route leads through the valley, and touched at the 19 mills inform boards about History and the formerly very important miller's trade.

Bridges over the Glems

In Schwieberdingen the main road crosses the 10 Glems on the Glemstalviadukt, a 280 -meter-long arch bridge.

A few kilometers further, at Markgroningen, crosses the 348 meter long viaduct Glems the high-speed railway route Mannheim- Stuttgart Glems.

The Glemstalviadukt at Schwieberdingen

Construction details of the Glemstalviadukts

Glems Bridge near Markgroningen

Strohgäubahn

In its section between Muenchingen and Hemmingen the Strohgäubahn follows to some extent the Glems. With route planning you followed the course prescribed depth contours in the landscape, thus avoiding complex bridge structures by led down the path of side valleys on both sides of the villages situated at the height of the Glemstal and longitudinal association of the valley gully.