Seulbach

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The Seulbach is a creek in the state of Hesse, Germany. It flows, apart from 600 meters to Bad Homburg district, only on the territory of the city of Friedrichsdorf, primarily Seulberg. Its source is in the Taunus slope west of the district of Dillingen. It flows 4.7 km from the Erlenbach.

Name

The name comes from Seulberg itself, which in turn is derived from columns castle or " Suleburc " and residues of the villa rustica, a Roman manor house relates. Whether the name part of Seul Seuel = awl, awl, Middle High German siuwele comes, is not proven.

Course

The flow field of Seulbachs is dominated by agricultural land, whose fertilization often leads to algal blooms in the spring. The creek flows through this the " Bottigtal " (presumably of vat = container ), which is an important fresh air corridor for Seulberg.

The source, called Geisborn, located in Seulberger forest and is used for drinking water. The water there has a very high iron content. After only a few meters of the stream is fed by a summer dry inflow. It involves several streams that originate north Friedrich village in the forest, especially around the Rehlingbach whose water is directed south-west flood protection for larger Ablussmengen at Friedrichsdorf in the past Seulbach. A few meters further on Seulbach is a small fish pond. In the summer the pond leaves no water, so that the lower part of the stream becomes dry. Now the crossing under the former B 455 follows the pipe cross-section was chosen intentionally low, so high above the water acting as a dam road is retained and the terrain area acts as a retention basin.

Behind the road, passing former storage buildings, in the now running through meadows creek drainage water is routed from the meadows. In summer, the creek is often refilled only from here with water. Several remains of storage structures and piping in the course suggest that the creek was partially repeatedly diverted from its original streambed and plumbed. The standing in the creek trees have their roots meant that there are several deeper places were created.

Behind the small wood flows from the Hardt forest coming another stream. From here, the Seulbach now flows in a concrete channel. This was created to protect the agricultural land for the natural erosion and divert the stream. Directly behind the pumping station whose removal lowers the groundwater for drinking water, the river does not flow back into a natural bed, but at the lowest point of the valley, he reached again until near the elementary school by two 90 ° bends. Next Seulberg direction, at the mouth of another stream of drainage systems of courts, began again a concrete channel that was removed in 2013.

Even before the tunnel under the railway line runs the Berliner Straße on a kind of dam. The tube was here also chosen to be very small, as well as an intake structure was applied to the road. Due to the terrain rise on the sides of this area also serves as a retention basin at high tide usually produces a small lake.

On one hand, to the wastewater with removing them from the local image loaded Bach, on the other hand, by the development of the residential area between the railway line and the old town center of Seulbach was moved in the 1950s in pipes. Only after passing under the road enters the Old Seulberg Seulbach to light again to run parallel to the grave street in a big concrete channel.

Through a tipped pasture, the creek has rehabilitated at the end of the concrete channel itself. A few hundred meters down stream joins another river. This is a confluence of the Rehlingbach and the Snipes stream that comes from Friedrichsdorf. Now on Bad Homburg area, after passing under the A5, it flows in the " Lohwald " in the Erlenbach.

Fauna

Noteworthy for the creek is the population of sticklebacks in several sections. The fish live in deeper areas that do not dry out in summer. They differ from the as occurring in Erlenbach animals by their color: the males are not in the courtship red colored with dark blue eyes, but almost orange with light blue eyes. The base color is not green with silvery - gray spots, but rather medium-gray spots. Find food, the fish plentiful in the form of mosquito larvae or gammarus.