Haggraben

The Haggraben in Forest City

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The Haggraben or main ditch is a left tributary of the creek at Forch Karl Stein am Main in the district of Aschaffenburg. It has no internal source, because it begins as a standing body of water in the quarry meadow at Kleinostheim.

Course

From its first tributary, the Bruchbach, it flows in a northerly direction. In the area of Forest City the bed of Haggrabens was dredged due to siltation in recent years frequently. In the summer of Haggraben leads often have little, sometimes no water at all, since the Bruchbach seeps in the flat landscape of reeds. The dry creek bed is supplied then only the discharges from Rückersbach, on Schluchthof in the Haggraben. To the west of arable farm houses leads him to the Rohrwies Bach. In the vicinity of the Highway 45 Haggraben leaves the valley and flows west to Karlstejn, where it flows into the Forch Bach.

Urmaintal

Previously flowed in boggy area between Kleinostheim and Dettingen, which is partly under conservation, some of the Main. Through a devastating flood in 1342 remained here a lake that extended to the beginning of Rueckersbacher gorge between the Dettinger Lindig and the mountains. The lake was still shown on maps of 1680 and 1728. Today, the area of the former Main valley is unwooded and still clearly visible. Due to this heavy flood, parts of the now defunct village Bruchhausen to have been destroyed.

Inflows

• Bruchbach (right, temporarily dry) 3.2 km
• Rückersbach (right) 4.2 km
• Rohrwies Bach (right, temporarily dry) 2.5 km
• Plate trench (right, temporarily dry ) 1,5 km
• Häggraben (right, temporarily dry) 2.8 km

Gallery

The reeds on Haggraben in the area of Forest City

Mouth of the Haggrabens (right), in the Forch Bach ( left)