Brettach (Jagst)

Mouth of the Brettach in the Jagst

The Brettach is a 27.7 km long, orographic right, a north-easterly tributary of the Jagst in Baden- Württemberg, Germany.

Official source and upper tributaries

The Brettach originates on the Hohenlohe plain in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Brettheim, a north-eastern part of the municipality of Rot am See. Your official source wells is approximately 200 m north of the village on the L 1040 towards Rothenburg, on the left side of a very shallow valley. A carved stone slab at the trough in 1796 refers to him as the origin of Brettach and praises him as a fountain of health; more recently, the board was still a sign that says " No drinking " added only little water runs there from a thin fountain tube, it then sinks back into a small sip hole and from there flows in an underground pipe to the larger stream in the central valley to the locals also call Brettach. This clearly larger rivers originates from the 500 m further west, northwest confluence of coming from the north Seegrabens with about a length of 3 km, and a little shorter Sperber Bach, continues its flow towards the united stream on the official source over.

Through the local area of ​​Brettheim a further influx pulls; separated by a low threshold from Sperbersbachttal, the Sobach running total of nearly 1 km long this parallel and terminating in a dammed pond on the western outskirts. After visible course of the further valley this Sobach is formerly in the beginning southeasterly, later a south-easterly direction, south on Church Hill and then at the site of today's wastewater treatment plant over, southeast of the village of Brettach accrued. In this today's storage pond drained still a pipe; one has but established because of frequent periodic flooding in the lower village recently a larger, only at high water in the pond attained through the pipe here at most 4 m high threshold for Sperber Bach to then harmlessly allowing large inflows.

Course

Starting Brettheim until shortly after pipe tower you have the Brettach straightened the bed, unifies the river, and the slope gradient and can rarely woody at its shore. It bends first in a right to Brettheim and runs henceforth in broad strokes in West southwest. It flows through the district Hilgartshausen, nearly 2 km downstream of it pushes the Court tubular tower in a narrow strip of woods with to this day preserved Heggraben the former Rothenburg country Hege at her north shore. Soon after separating the Brettach the near Brettfeld the north by the municipality seat Rot am See in the south, passes under it the Tauber Valley Railway and the B 290 and then begins her Meander in the Muschelkalk. In this valley it reaches Kleinbretteneben home where she receives the coming from the north Blauenbach; in the eastern mouth of the triangle is here on a mountain spur the ruins Bebenburg.

Then the Brettach touches first the right side, the territory of the municipality Gerabronn whose center lies on the right plateau. The boundary between Gerabronn and Rot am See is from here almost to Bügenstegen always near the Brettach, but with lateral deflections sometimes all the way up to the valley heights. The valley is now sunk about 30 meters from the surrounding heights, and from here the both sides of the valley slopes are forested almost continuously. The forest on the slope shoulder itself defies the first major forest site along the Brettach continued on the right, north side, the forest Won Hochholz in which a game reserve lies.

It flows through a small dam just before Amlishagen with castle Amlishagen, both located right above the valley, and passes at the feet of this village two Talmühlen associated with it. Then she turns for about 4 river miles to the south, passes through the flood retention basins Beimbach northwest of Beimbach location ( Beimbach memory ), in turn, passes two Talmühlen and bends again towards the west.

They in turn reaches a larger forest area, this time to the south refers to the left plateau, and flows around here in a bow a north-facing mountain spur where, just east of Talweilers Gerabronn - Bügenstegen, behind a ring wall to the plateau the ruins Werdeck is.

Did the Brettach on their shell - section of small Brettheim up here usually in a V-shaped valley, which was too steep and narrow for agricultural use, with a few meadows, it now becomes wider Mulde; the slopes are free of forest in places almost to the shoulder slope, old field strips on rear limited terraces followed by 2 kilometers of the river to the hamlet Gera Bronner Liebesdorf. Here it bends again and down to their last river kilometers to the south, the valley narrows it again. After the municipality Gerabronns over extended far from Bügenstegen on the heights to the left of the valley, is the residual term Ilshofen briefly left riparian.

The Brettach that is there already about 100 m lower than the surrounding heights opens, a little east of Gerabronn - Elpershofen from the north in the opposite direction here Jagst. This bends the inflow at right angles back to the west in their major direction towards the Neckar.

Inflows

Among the tributaries of the Brettach are listed in the flow direction:

• The little zoom Schlößlesbach flows above Hilgartshausens of east into the Brettach,
• The meadow brook flows from the northwest coming right after Hilgartshausen,
• Seebach achieved in Rot am See the Brettach from the east,
• The Blue Stream, the largest and southeast -oriented tributary, it flows traversing Blaufelden to in Kleinbretteneben Home,
• The Beimbach abutted at the West kink at the village Beimbach from the east to the Brettach, after passing Lenkerstetten,
• Michel Bach opens at its last direction kink at Liebesdorf from the northwest in the coming Brettach.

Attractions

Attractions at the Brettach are downriver considered:

• Of Rothenburg's country Hege ( former Landwehr ) runs from a well-preserved piece in a narrow strip of woods between Hilgartshausen and Musdorf from the north to the Brettach; other sections in good condition can be found in the surrounding area. In the yard next named after the road to Musdorf is the rest of the so-called tubular tower, a Landtturms of Rothenburg country Hege in the south-western tip. Only be to the barn covered, unspectacular tower stump remains.
• The ruin Bebenburg, east of the Blue Stream Estuary at Kleinbretteneben Home,
• The castle Amlishagen, in Amlishagen on the northern shoulder of the mountain Brettachtals
• The former fortified church in Beimbach,
• The ruins Werdeck, on a mountain spur east of Gerabronn - Bügenstegen and