Blinde Rot

The Blind Red runs in opposite directions in the Ellwanger mountains for Bühler

Template: Infobox River / Obsolete

The Blind Red, also called Adelmann fields Red, is a river in the Ellwanger mountains in northern Baden- Württemberg, which originates in the field of community Frankenhardt and on the community Abtsgmuend flows from the right into the cooker.

• 2.1 Fauna
• 2.2 Flora

Geography

The blind red springs on the pebbly sandstone plateau on the northern foothills of the Ellwanger Berge near Hirschhof, flows through soon the Fleckenbachsee and then runs in the valley and Wiesenmäandern south to rotate around 2 km from the mouth of the Horn Mountain abruptly to the west and then at Schäufele to reach the stove.

Its valley is over the entire length in the middle keuper. The west as east approximately parallel and adjacent and larger rivers Buhler and Jagst both of which flow in opposite directions to the north. The flood plain is, apart from the counting Rosenberg Willa hamlet, inhabited only by a few mill locations by humans. Valley as surrounding heights are long stretches of forest cover, are embedded in the small clearings around farmsteads and hamlets, of which some are above the valley west grown into a larger field and meadow hall at Adelmannsfelden. The very flat black Jura plateau, the opposite Adelmannsfelden starting just east of the last Taldrittels drags, is used for intensive agriculture with sparse settlement.

Inflows

Among the tributaries of the blind red are downriver considered:

Environment

The Blind Red runs in an initially very flat valley that from about Willa stronger eintieft and nowhere exceeds a maximum width of 150 m. In most cases enclosed on both sides by forested slopes, a small-scale, natural riparian landscape has been preserved on the valley floor. Meadows and pastures are interspersed with wooded lots from, including rare elsewhere alder swamps, through both the river meanders freely in natural meanders with steep and flat slopes, accompanied by sandbanks, oxbow lakes and slowly silted pools.

Upper and middle reaches to about 2 km downstream from Adelmannsfelden is the valley, partly together with the tapered side valleys, designated as nature reserve Upper Blind Red Valley. On the scarce Taldrittel below almost to muzzle the nature reserve valley joins the blind red.

On the left side of the valley of the lower reaches at Bronnen is from the upper slope forest enclosed in a clearing the 5-hectare Natural Heritage Pasture Birkhof.

Fauna

The nature reserve valley of the blind, red is a very rich habitat with a rich fauna.

Sun, 28 breeding bird species were observed in the valley, including the dippers, kingfishers, woodcock and the Marsh Warbler.

The Reptiles are represented by forest lizard and slow worm.

Of the 7 species of amphibians especially the fire salamander and the yellow-bellied toad are worth mentioning.

In the water of the blind red live the rare brown trout and the endangered brook lamprey, and on the floodplain of the creek fly very many butterflies and dragonflies.

Flora

The shore of the blind red line black alder and willow. In waterlogged parts of the valley alder stand between open pools of water in small swamp forests to drier the native deciduous forests have held or have been planted spruce. On damp locations blooming in spring yellow marsh marigold. In the extensively farmed wet meadows still growing the globe flower. In the wetlands to find the source bulrush and various sedges such as the Yellow, the panicles, the felt and the fox sedge. The Yellow Iris is not missing here.

At the Orchid Broad-leaved, the flesh red and the rarer green-winged orchid in the valley occur, else the Yellow monkshood and the forest Columbine. Along the waters run pull in some places towards butterbur forests.

Here too, the Himalayan Balsam.

Water quality

The Blind Red was lightly loaded with 2004 levels recorded over her for this run from about the influx of Geißbachs ( grade I- II).

History

In the catchment area, which is more than half covered by forests, the forest industry was once prevalent, with charcoal burning, Harzereien, Teerhütten and especially the extraction of wood. It was processed in sawmills for lumber, but was especially energy supplier that you instilled as logs to the valley. Since the water flow in the valley was too low for a stable rafting, one blowing lakes here put on called Schwellweiher whose been dammed up water is drained over a short period, after which it flooded the prepared logs down the valley. Lots of wood from the forests to the blind red was only himself and then transported so early on this the water-rich cooker down to Schwäbisch Hall, where the saline resistant had a big demand for fuel wood. The railway transport this way lapsed, today still remembers the name of the blowing chamber instead lake at the left inflow Dolle stream on this technique.

Attractions and buildings

• Fleckenbachsee with the Fleckenbachsägmühle
• Middle reaches with old creeks, sandstone rocks and partly steep side valleys
• Located James pilgrimage church Hohenberg in Rosenberg, about 3 km east of the river at 568 m altitude on the same, far inland views granted witnesses mountain
• Castle Adelmannsfelden

Economy

It used to be used in the valley of the blind, the red water power to drive some sawdust, paper and oil mills. Contents has them on the upper reaches a small saw-mill on Betzenhof where you still can see sometimes divide the Sägebaum logs next to the causeway of Betz pond in an open hut. Is a medium-sized operation of wood processing at the Ludwig mill below Willa. At four locations in the valley ( Fleckenbachsee, Betz pond, paper mill at Adelmannsfelden, Abtsgmünder oil and Sagmuhle ) is used the water power today.

Importance as a transport route

Apart from forest roads and connecting roads for a few lying in the valley hamlets and mills that are of little greater traffic engineering significance, there is hardly any traffic along the river paths. The marshy lowlands in the upper reaches and the gorge in the lower reaches impede the contrary, the crossing traffic, so that it at Willa and the L 1073 at Adelmannsfelden are no maintained roads of more than local significance, especially through its deep recessed lower valley except the L 1060. On forested middle reaches, there is a completely off - web and non- valley portion.