Sauerbornsbach
Sauer Born creek, just before the confluence with the forest stream to Schwalbach
The sour Born Bach is more than 4.7 km long, left source stream of the Schwalbaches in Hesse ( Germany ).
Geography
Course
The sour Born stream rises in the Taunus south of the Crown Str in the city area of King Stone Mammolshain. Its upper course is called Holler Born Bach; some also look at the Holler Born Bach as right and Rent Bach as Bach left the source of sour Born creek. The sour Born stream first flows in an easterly direction over the Wiesenhof. After crossing under the Crown Str it reaches the Gemarkungsgrenze and changes to the area of Kronberg. At the foot of the slope Kronenberger lie on the left side, from where it will flow to the Rent Bach here the Kronenthaler mineral springs and against them the little sour Born forest. The sour Born stream then passes through an area where orchards alternate with farmland. It changes its flow direction to the southeast and flows around the east side of the large housing estate Limes city. North of Grumbach way it flows from the right side of Grumbach to. After crossing under the freeway Limes clasp Sauerborn Bach reached the city of Schwalbach. It runs parallel to the meadow here and the ring road in order to unite the southwest of the main road with the forest brook to Schwalbach.
Towns
The towns along the Schwalbach include downstream enumerated:
- Königstein - Mammolshain (Hessen)
- Kronberg (Hessen)
- Schwalbach (Hessen)
And character data
The sour Born Bach is a siliceous low mountain and a river III. Order.
The sour Born Bach ( moderately polluted ) to the water quality map of Hessen above Kronberg in the water quality class II and below it in the water quality class II -III ( critically polluted ) classified. To his pollution inflows from storm water overflows and uncleaned street sewage, as well as the discharges from agricultural land is a crucial factor.
In its water structure Sauerborn Bach applicable in many areas as moderately altered to clearly changed. In the area of Limes city and also at its lower reaches, he is greatly changed to very greatly changed.
The sour Born Bach has a mean discharge quantities ( MQ ) of 87.4 l / s
Creature
In the nutrient-poor meadows with herds of the Great burnet the Dark burnet - Large Blues occurs. Its caterpillar lives in the colonies of their host, the Red garden ant.
The sour Born Bach is lined in its course of alder, willow and ash trees.
In Sauerbornsbachtal come into the hillside areas with sage - oat grass meadows and dry grasslands include the following plant species:
Mountain Clover, Common Teufelsabbiss, dyer's broom, Thorny restharrow, nasty quaking grass, Bromus erectus, forest Buttercup, Spiny restharrow, Rough violets, Hank bellflower, meadow foxtail and Willowleaf Elecampane.