Ulmbach (Lahn)
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The Ulmbach is an approximately 23 km long right-hand or north-western tributary of the Lahn, which runs entirely on the territory of Hesse Lahn- Dill district.
Geography
Course
The Ulmbach rises in the Westerwald at an altitude of about 532 m above sea level. NN in the mixed forest Won Lehnstruth south of Mademühlen. Only about one kilometer north-west of its headwaters is the Krombachtalsperre.
The river first flows in a northeasterly direction about 300 meters through the forest and then changes to a grassland zone. Just before he reached the Driedorfer district Munchausen, flows through it on its right side to the coming from the southwest Königswieser Bach. The Ulmbach passes through the village and then turns to the east. Half a mile down stream he fed on his right side from the cart raft, shortly thereafter flows past the Palatinate mill where he says goodbye to Driedorf and enters the area of the district grasping stone. Southeast of Greifensteiner district Rodenberg he turns to the southeast and then moves through a small deciduous forest strips on to Beilstein. He now runs through this village until it has almost reached the southern edge, but changes north of Castle Street its direction to east, then flows past the castle Beilstein and leaves the place at its eastern edge. His road now leads north from the gallows stone over, where he is accompanied on his left side of grassland and on the right of mixed forest. At the hamlet of Lichtenstein he proposes a curve to the right, then flows further south and is dammed up a little later by the Ulmbachtalsperre to a small lake. Approximately 150 m south of the dam he takes on his right side in the springing of the lovers Riger Heath Ballersbach on, then directed his course to the east and then it goes through the Greifensteiner district Holzhausen. Continue through fields and meadows, now south-east, south on Mückenberg over. On the northern edge of Ulm, he is left hand strengthened by Wehrbach. Along the road Ulmbacher fluent he crosses the northeast of the site and then unites with the coming from the northeast Lohrbach. He now moves on the western edge of mixed forest by a green area, then touches the eastern part of Allendorf, where he only oats stream and then further south accrue on the right side of the Mount of Ruppert Dobergsbach. South of the Galgenberg he still takes the Weltersbach on, then runs from west widely to the Leuner district Bissenberg past, happened after Biskirchen, crosses under the tracks of the Lahn Valley Railway and then the E44 and finally ends at an altitude of about 146 m above sea level. NN in the Lahn.
Inflows
Tributaries are listed down stream with orographic indication of direction and its length:
- Königswieser Bach ( right), 2.6 km
- The carts raft (right), 1.3 km
- Ballersbach (right), 2.2 km
- Wehrbach (left), 0.9 km
- Lohr Bach ( left), 2.6 km
- Oat Bach ( right), 1.8 km
- Dobergs -Bach (right), 1.7 km
- Welters -Bach (right), 1.2 km
Ulmbachtalsperre
On the basis of the annual flood the Ulmbachtalsperre between Greifensteiner districts Beilstein and Holzhausen was built in the 1960s. The resulting reservoir is used except as flood protection or as a recreational area.
Data and character
The Ulmbach is a coarse material rich, siliceous low mountain. Its catchment area is 60.9 km ² and its mean discharge ( MQ ) is 741 liters per second. Its ecological status is classified as moderate, whereas his water structure data will be evaluated negatively.
Fauna
The dominant fish region of Ulmbaches is the top trout region and according to the testimony of the local fishing club, he has a good population of crayfish and trout .. Listed are also the brook lamprey, minnow, the bullhead, the loach, and the signal crayfish.