Bächlesbach

The Bächlesbach in the Spessart meadows

The Bächlesbach, or even just called Bächles, is a left, about 2 km long tributary of the creek at Lohr Heigenbrucken in the Aschaffenburg district in the Spessart. Its source is the Bächlesbrunnen to the "Great Mariengrotte " lying.

Geography

Bächlesbrunnen

The Bächlesbrunnen is located southeast of the upper end of the Bächlesgrundes in Heinrichsthaler forest. Here is a grotto Schwerspatsteinen was in 1955 by three forest workers erected. The Bächlesbrunnen filled in in average about 40 liters per second, making it one of the strongest sources in the Spessart.

Course

After the water comes to the surface in Bächlesbrunnen, the stream already splits in the source version and both branches pulling it toward the edge. There they finally reunite and the Bächlesbach now reached the nature reserve " Spessart meadows ". After that, the creek flows through the Heigenbrückener Wildlife Park, where frequently wild boar and deer drink from him. After leaving the game park, opens the Bächlesbach near a lake in the Lohrbach.

Flora and Fauna

Sources from the new red sandstone usually pour acidic water, so also the Bächlesbrunnen, so actually the purpose characteristic mosses, other plants and animals encountered in Bächlesbach, such as the larvae of the spotted salamander.