Lauter (Odenwald)

The Lauter in Bensheim

The Lauter, called the underflow Winkelbach, is a river in southern Hesse. The 43.2 km long Lauter has its source in the Odenwald about 800 m northwest of Neunkirchen height and flows Gernsheim into the Rhine.

The upper Lauterbrunnen valley and gives her the local composite community Lauter her name. It has a catchment area of 27.5 square kilometers and is 14.4 km long, its water body number is 23954.2. The stretch of the river named Winkelbach, starting in Bensheim, carries the water body number 23954.1, is 28.8 km long and has a catchment area of 90.2 km ².

The name Winkelbach may be explained from the bend which the river makes in Bensheim or by diverting at Rodau.

The river course

Odenwald

800 m northwest from the summit of Neunkircher altitude is 490 m above sea level. NN is the source of the Lauter. On the Wine Trail runs along from there a narrow trickle down to 2 km after Gadernheim (municipality Lauter ). At the national road 47 ( Nibelungenstraße ) along the Lauter then flows over Kaiserslautern, Reichenbach, Elmshausen, Wilmshausen and Schoenberg to Bensheim. In Schoenberg there is a retention basin to regulate. At the entrance to the east of Bensheim a level measuring point is ( tag number 23,950,104 ) with a level zero of 105.38 m above sea level. NN. The flood level for the alarm stage 1 is 80 cm, for stage 2 at 100 cm and for stage 3 at 120 cm. With 149 cm, the highest level was measured on 11 July 1980; this corresponds to a flow of 10.6 m³ / s

Hessian Ried

In Bensheim, which flows through the volume, it changes its name to Winkelbach. From just below the Rinnentors to the intersection mis - Straße Mozart Street, the angle stream runs about 1.2 km long in an underground channel. At a weir on Rinnentor a small part of the stream is diverted into the new ditch. To the west of Bensheim reached the Winkelbach the Upper Rhine Valley and the Hessian Ried. Here he is largely regulated. For several miles the river bed then runs parallel to the A5 motorway to the north. At the level of Bensheim -Auerbach flows to the Auer from 6.7 km. At the height of the Rodau Winkelbach crosses under the highway and then flows west. South of Langwaden flows to the Schwanheimer Grenzgraben. 600 m further downstream it crosses under Highway 67 and passes Maria Einsiedel and small - pipe home. The last section leads along the south-western outskirts of Gernsheim. 700 meters before reaching the mouth of the long trench as the last inflow angle creek from the south. The mouth of the Rhine is about 50 meters south of the destroyed in the Second World War Gernsheimer Rhine bridge.

A smaller part of Bach's angle is derived with a weir on Bensheimer Rinnentor in the Neuer Graben. Neugraben first flows 1.3 kilometers underground, below the Schwanheimer road. At the intersection Schwanheimer street - Berliner Ring he runs again as surface water. 4.1 km after the weir at Rinnentor he opens at the Wattenheimer bridge in the Weschnitz.

History

For the volume, the names Ziegelbach and Luitra were used.

The angle Bach was regulated in the years 1833 to 1836, significantly expanded and deepened. Two operated in Gernsheim mills were eliminated. This could be an indication that the artificially created westward river also falls within the period of construction of the River Vltava. The volume up / the Winkelbach was how the Odenwald and River Vltava rivers Weschnitz, to safeguard against flooding as far as regulated so that flooding could be almost excluded. This should commercial locations werden.Im secured near the Rhine 1956, all designs were at the instigation of the Hessian state government to put together a regulated flood discharge of Weschnitz first and then the volume up and the angle creek. We put together a package of measures, dam elevation and lowering of the riverbeds and the construction of flood retention basins. The construction work began in 1958 and ended in 1970. The support of the measures and future operators of the completed facilities, the Weschnitz Association was founded on 11 June 1958 at the winery cellar in Heppenheim. On 1 January 2001 arose from the Weschnitz Association and which was founded in 1966 Lauter - Winkelbach Association of waters Association mountain road. The area of Lauter and Winkelbach was protected by a pool in the Odenwald and two other pools in the lowlands.

Gallery

Images of Volume up / Winkelbach in the direction from source to mouth

On Rinnentor in Bensheim a small part of the angular stream is diverted to the new trench (upper weir). The majority of flows for 1.2 km underground through Bensheim.

The Winkelbach after 1.2 km of underground tour of Bensheim

The mouth of the angle of Bach in the Rhine near Gernsheim