Alb (Northern Black Forest)

Alb in Ettlingen

The Alb is an approximately 51 km long river in the Black Forest and the middle Upper Rhine Plain in Baden- Württemberg, which flows into the Rhine at the northern edge of the district of the independent city of Karlsruhe from the right and south.

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Geography

Course

The Alb springs southeast of Mount Teufelsmühle to about 743 m above sea level. NN. From here it flows in a northerly direction through a first deeply countersunk, wide ohliges valley. A step down the valley cuts through the narrow valley of the Kluse and forms a small, previously artificially high waterfall. Below the rock walls of the spa town of Bad Herrenalb Rotliegenden towered over the valley slopes are significantly lower, and the slope of the small river has decreased. In this section of the valley Frauenalb lies with its monastery ruins. In Marx, the Alb cell absorbs from right to Maisbach. In Fischweier her flowing left to the Moosalb. In Busenbach her ​​run turns to the northwest.

In Ettlingen Alb leaves after quite exactly half its length the Black Forest and enters the middle Upper Rhine, which flows through completely Ettlingen and then applies its course in the far-reaching Kinzig Murg- trough back north. In this very shallow area branch from her left some side channels, all of which will flow back. In this section, it flows past the Karlsruhe district Rüppurr.

She then crosses under the highway 10 and follow this to the northwest by the " Günther - Klotz-Anlage " in the south of Karlsruhe - partly as a district boundary between Bulach and Beiertheim - and thus forms the backbone of one of the most popular recreation areas of the city. By Daxlanden it flows, or rather extended run, in a large loop; one of the scenic highlights here is the barrage " Appen mill "; where the Stadtwerke Karlsruhe produce since 2000, electricity from hydropower; here is also a fish ladder.

Later, the Alb closely wraps around the Karlsruhe Rhine port at Mühlburg. At the southeastern edge of Karlsruhe- Maxau where the longest tributary of the left spring creek empties into it, its run by North spends about parallel to the Rhine and flows through channels the oil refinery MiRO. Then opens directly below the entrance to the Karlsruhe oil port of right and finally south-east of the Rhine.

Yet to right the Albüberleitung Shortly before going off to accompany denStrom more about 3.5 km turn right and then feeds the Pfinz - relief channel in Eggenstein- Leopoldshafen in the area of ​​Altarms, who in turn soon after reached from the right of the Rhine.

Inflows

The more significant tributaries of the Alps are in the Black Forest

• The Maisbach ( from the right, about 9 km) and
• The Moosalb (from left, approximately 10 km )

All other not even reach is 5 km length, there are several runs in slope blades. In the Upper Rhine Valley has three major tributaries,

• The cutting trench ( from the right, approximately 10 km )
• The Malscher Landgraben (approx. 17 km) ( from the left, about 17 km) and
• The spring creek ( from the left, about 41 km).

The last two occur even in the same place, but the longer spring creek draws a very circuitous course.

Monastery ruins Frauenalb in Albtal

The Alb at Gertrudenhof

Middle Albtal and Northern Black Forest

The straightened Alb for recreational activities in the city of Karlsruhe

The Alb as receiving waters of the sewage plant

Reception

Painting

• Johann Wilhelm Schirmer: On the Alb, oil painting from 1858, which gives an impression of the Alb below Ettlingen before the waters corrections. Oil Painting Schirmer of 1858 with the Alb in the Talsanden the Upper Rhine

Film

• Nymphs, toads and Magic - The River Alb to Karlsruhe ( 30 min), July 7, 2009, 22.00 clock, driving times out, SWR