Hirtenbach (Bühler)

The top fork of the shepherd Bach, a few steps east of the L 2627 between Schwäbisch Hall Sulzdorf and Obersontheim - Herlebach. The short left branch starts on this side of the road, the river dried up in the longer right-hand branch often still below its road underpass.

The shepherds Bach is a stream of 3.9 km in length in the field of Schwäbisch Hall in northeastern Baden- Württemberg, the left- opens in Sulzdorf - Anhausen in the Buhler.

Geography

Source and course

The headwaters of the shepherd Bach is located southeast of the secret Mountain and north-east of the ridge Birkentöbele, near the road K 2627 Sulzdorf - Herlebach, about 435 m above sea level. NN in the forest area Höning. From there, the young Bach between Heidelberg in the north and Burkhart flows south through the winter blade in the direction east-northeast. After about a kilometer, he reached the corridor boundary at which he feeds a less than 0.1 acre pond and onto the grounds of the golf course Dörrenzimmern excreted. In the same direction he crosses this, go spans the club building of a small stone arch bridge, then crosses under the L 1060 and runs through the hamlet of Schwäbisch Hall Dörrenzimmern. Then, in the meantime in a small depression in the right-hand side clearly incident in particular, it draws in a northeasterly direction on and on Haller hamlet book on the right ridge over, after which he crossed on a former railway keeper's house the railway line Crailsheim -Heilbronn and the K 2602 Sulzdorf book. No 0.6 km later, he feeds a nearly 0.1 -acre fish pond and then returns abruptly to the north -northwest. On the remaining only 0.3 km, it deepened into a wooded blade by almost 30 meters height and flows then, about 300 meters southeast of Sulzdorf - Anhausen, in a poorly accessible southern slope of the same impact on about 318 meters above sea level. NN after 3.9 km run from the left in the Buhler. On the pointed muzzle spur right stood the castle book, from the landscape, almost nothing can be seen today in the Middle Ages.

Catchment area

The shepherds stream has a catchment area of 2.3 km ² in the shape of a tube slightly varying width around the stream. To the north it borders on that of Sulzdorfer Black creek laughter, mostly competes beyond the watershed, some of which no five-meter ranges from Dörrenzimmern above the creek bed, the right tributary of Erlenbach. In the far north, while a tiny, incipient as feldweg accompanying trench slope Bach pushes directly to Buhler in between. In the lower reaches from book right compete no other tributaries to Bühler, in this area there are only temporary Hanggerinne. Above book is bordered to the east by the catchment area of the local bear brook, farther to the south of L 1066 to it is the larger of the east of Dörrenzimmern the upper Buhler flowing Vellberger Steinbach. In the west side of the ridge on Birkentöbele, at its eastern slope lies the headwaters of the shepherds of Bach, the Fischach flows much further to above the Buhler.

Geology

The headwaters of the shepherd Bach is on a typical humid slopes below the Schilfsandstein in the upper Gipskeuper ( grave field formation ). The two upper reaches its accompanying foothills of Heidelberg in the north and in the south are covered by Burkhardt Verebnungsflächen the Corbula Bank of Gipskeuper. The Lower Keuper reached the shepherds creek then on the outskirts of Dörrenzimmern, the Upper Muschelkalk between the railway line and the fish pond on the lower reaches. With the direction of the bend where Bach follows a small disturbance parallel to the so-called Vellberger disorder that affects northwest.

Landscape

The upper course is located in a relatively flat wooded valley in which dominates the coniferous forest. From the corridor boundary of the stream flowing through meadows, while mostly accompanied by the banks bushes. By Dörrenzimmern pulls the stream in an open circuit between not very densely packed houses and farmsteads. The small valley between Dörrenzimmern and the railway line is mostly used for animal grazing, here you can see between verstrauchtem shore area, also sometimes small forests of glandular balsam. The accompanying hills are plowed. Before the railway crossing is to the right a small fen, which is available as areal nature monument. The remaining open areas in the lower reaches is part of the conservation area Bühlertal between Vellberg and Geislingen with side valleys and adjacent areas, the following brief woods blade section from about the fish pond the nature reserve Lower Bühlertal.

Apart from depending on the season often dry small valleys of the two -sided ridge ago, their longest near the hiking parking lot starts under secret mountain on the L 2627, the Shepherds Bach has only inflow of bedded sources close to the middle and lower reaches.

Towns

The shepherds creek lies with bed and catchment area as a whole on the district of Schwäbisch Hall Sulzdorf, except the right side of Bach and slope of the mouth blade that pays for Vellberger district. The Vellberger share in the catchment area of ​​less than 1.4 hectares and is adjacent to only about 0.2 km to the lowest run.

The only settlement on the creek itself is the hamlet Dörrenzimmern.