Nagold (river)
The Nagold in the middle reaches between Nagold and Calw
The river running through the counties of Freudenstadt, Calw and Pforzheim
The Nagold is a 90 km long river in Baden -Württemberg and eponym of the city Nagold. It flows in Pforzheim city center with the smaller Enz together.
Physical Geography
General
The Nagold flows through mainly the Black Forest. Around the city Nagold around ( between the pipe village and Pfrondorf ) it flows through the Heckengäu. On Pforzheimer copper hammer it enters the Pforzheimer Enztal, which, like the Heckengäu also part of the natural space of Gäulandschaften.
The Nagold is regarded by convention as a tributary of the River Enz. However, it leads at the confluence more water than the Enz - headwaters, is longer than this almost by a factor of 2 and has a larger approximately by a factor of 3.5 catchment. About it thus runs hydrographic the main strand of the Enz - Nagold system. However, the upper Enz has the wider valley and retains its direction of flow at.
The Nagold pulls in the upper reaches to Nagold mainly in eastern and south-eastern direction. In the city Nagold it takes then almost a U-turn, to then flow to Pforzheim especially in northern direction. The Nagold has numerous loops and circulation mountains formed, so at Pfrondorf ( bed mountain ), in Wildenberg, the Hof Waldeck ( Schlossberg, with ruin Waldeck ), at Tannenberg ( rowing mountain, with ring wall ) and in white stone.
The source of Nagold is a designated as Nagold original source at Urnagold (municipality Seewald, district broom field). After a few kilometers, at ore mine, the Nagold is dammed to Nagoldtalsperre. Up to the first city, Altensteig, the Nagoldtal is mainly uninhabited. Before Rohrsdorf the Nagold leaves the Black Forest, is taking the foot of the ruins High Nagold their great change of direction and passes north of Pfrondorf back in the Black Forest.
The Nagold now passes the above circulation mountains as well as the most important places Wildenberg, Calw, Hirsau and Bad Love cell. Between Dill stone and Pforzheim Nagold leaves the Black Forest and flows together in the former Pforzheim's center with the Enz, which, flowing in an easterly direction, empties in Besigheim into the Neckar.
Inflows
The largest tributaries are the Nagoldtalsperre:
- The right Zinsbach 13.3 miles and 33.8 km ² ago Altensteig
- The left Köllbach with 10.0 km and 29.9 km ² to the city Altensteig
- The right Waldach 24.7 km 157.1 km ² at Nagold knee in the city Nagold
- The left Teinach with 15.4 km and 61.5 km ² at Teinachtal
- The right Würm 53.9 km 418.3 km ² already in the urban area of the estuary town of Pforzheim
Political Geography
The Nagold flows through the districts of Freudenstadt, Calw and Pforzheim (city circle). Up to the large territorial upheavals around 1803 and 1806, the run was mostly on the Nagoldtalsperre altwürttembergischen area. Smaller areas were part of the Margraviate of Baden or the Order of St. John. Altensteig, Nagold, Wildenberg, Calw and love cell are altwürttembergische office cities, Hirsau and Reutin altwürttembergische monastic office locations. The Hirsau has significance for European history. The current areas around Pforzheim ( Gemarkungen White Stone, Dill stone and Pforzheim ) belonged to Baden. Tube village was the seat of an Order of St. John under Württemberg sovereignty.
Transport geography
The Nagoldtal forms between Pforzheim and old climbing the backbone for various main roads. The north -south traffic between Pforzheim and Nagold and continue to Horb is carried by the B 463 and the Nagoldtalsperre Valley Railway. Between Nagold and Altensteig the Nagoldtal takes the important east -west connection of the B 28 (but the traffic shifted more to the south extending direct connection between Freudenstadt Horb and Tübingen, as the B 28 between Tübingen and Freudenstadt about Herrenberg, Nagold and Altensteig a wide berth to the north performs ). Until decommissioning in 1967 ran between Nagold and old climbing a narrow gauge railway, the " Altensteigerle ".
Economic Geography
In the Black Forest to the beginning of the 20th century was the rafting of importance. Just as the Enz the Nagold was used to transport logs. Some places lived mainly from the rafting, such as white stone. In the Black Forest is among other things the timber industry of importance, increased by Nagold around agriculture. Manufacturing and service industries play (ed), especially in Pforzheim a crucial role (jewelery, precious metals, watches, trade, administration), besides also in Ebhausen, Nagold, Kentheim ( historic cotton mill ), Calw ( county seat ) and love cell ( resort).