Linspherbach

Map of the Großherzogthume Hesse, 1832-1850, among other things, from north -west to south-east running Linspherbach

The Linspherbach (also called Linspher ) in North Rhine-Westphalia Hochsauerlandkreis Hessian and Waldeck- Frankenberg is a about 18.2 km long, north-westerly and orographic left tributary of the Eder in the Rothaargebirge Ostsauerländer mountainous border.

Course

The Linspherbach rises near the border of North Rhine Westphalia and Hesse in Rothaargebirge. Its source is located below the Pöhlskopfs ( 739.1 m), a southeast foothills of the massif of Ziegenhelle ( 815.9 m) belonging Hassel back ( 766.3 m) in the city of Hallenberg belonging and the Trambach back ( Trambach head, Tram Bacher head) located Trambach to about 648 m above sea level. NHN. This hamlet of the country road leads 717

Already after only 100m flow path on the boundary hall mountain in Hochsauerlandkreis ( Westphalia ) flows predominantly southeastward extending Linspherbach, to its mouth, in Waldeck- Frankenberg (Northern Hessen). There he initially flows south through the district of Bromskirchen, where he used to standing still mill race, which was built in the 16th century and 1.7 km to the southwest ( straight line ) of Bromskirchen Oberlinspher mill ( ⊙ 51.088228.60223 ) feeds and shortly thereafter along the silver lake ( ⊙ 51.087858.60774 ) runs.

About 2 km ( straight line ) south Bromskirchens stands at Linspherbach the Unterlinsphermühle ( 51.079748.62976 ⊙ ), where the creek crosses under the Bromskircher railway viaduct of the disused railway line in this section Nuttlar -Frankenberg and the federal highway 236. From left, or north here flows to the creek from Bromskirchen. The B 236 and the partially converted to a bike path railroad now follow the creek through the district of Allendorf, the brook passes its Osterfeld district.

After flowing through Allendorf and the respective cross under the Upper Eder railway and national highway 253 of Linspherbach leads to about 289 m altitude in a mill race of Eder.

Catchment and inflows

The catchment area of ​​Linspherbachs is 33.107 km ². The longest tributary is the 3.8 km long stream of Bromskirchen which opens at the Unterlinsphermühle from the left and a 2.772 km ² large catchment area.

Nature Spatial allocation

The source of the Linspherbaches lies in the physiographic feature unit group Süder Bergland (No. 33), in the main unit Rothaargebirge (333 ) and in the subunit Winterberg Highlands ( 333.5 ) in the natural area Wild Struth ( 333.50 ).

A few miles below its source the river flows into the main unit Ostsauerländer edge of the mountain (332 ). In the local subunit Hinterländer Ederbergland ( 332.1 ) it runs in the natural area Elbrighäuser Forest ( 332.11 ) along its north-eastern boundary of subunit Medebacher Bay ( 332.4 ) and then from that to the subunit forest Truth ( 332.3 ). After that runs the stream a short distance through the natural area Hatzfelder Bergland ( 332.10 ) in order to achieve his mouth a little further south-southeast in the subunit Frankenberger ground ( 332.2 ) in the Eder -Auen.

Nature reserve

The Linspherbachoberlauf the Upper Linsphermühle flows through the nature reserve headwaters of Linspherbaches ( CDDA-Nr. 164898; 1995 reported; 1.11 km ²), with the part of the Fauna-Flora -Habitat - area upper Eder ( FFH-Nr. 4917-350, 23.35 km ²); directly below it is the Silver Lake. The area represents a " most characteristic and well-equipped forest meadow valley of the German low mountain range with very natural creek systems, species-rich fresh, moist and lean grassland companies as well as diverse forest edge structures. " The primary safety objective is " the preservation of semi-natural rivers and their floodplains. "

Fauna and Flora

As part of the fauna, there are dippers, gray wagtails and kingfishers, live bullhead, brown trout and brook lamprey in the creek as well as rare water beetle species such as the dwarf Angular - Redshank ( Hydraena angulosa ). As amphibian salamander, thread, and the Alpine newt, common toad, midwife toad, natterjack toad and frog are found as butterfly species are purple gold - copper butterfly, ducat Feuerfalter, Large, Braunfleckiger, Fiery and pearl-bordered fritillary to find and round eyes and white Bindiger ringlet. In addition, the Banded Demoiselle and separates the two Striped source maid is found as charakterischte riverine species. Endangered species are marsh grasshopper and red club cricket.

At the top of Linspherbaches species come here to the Gentiles broom and silicate - poor grassland, such as docks - Grünwidderchen, thyme burnet, Dovetail, Green Hairstreak and Yellow gorse tensioner.