Elsenz

The Elsenz in Neckargemuend

The Elsenz is a river in northern Baden- Württemberg, the left opens into Neckargemuend into the Neckar. After the flow of medieval Elsenzgau is named.

Geography

River course

The Elsenz rises slightly to the west of Ortsrandes of Elsenz in the beginning Seewald fork in the road between lake road and about 237 meters above sea level on Seewaldstraße. NN. It opens for a mostly northern run of good 53 km through the Kraichgau and the Kleiner Odenwald to 111.7 m above sea level. NN in Neckargemuend about 50 meters above the Neckar bridge to Kleingemünd from the left in the Neckar.

The river shows after the first 4 km southeast oriented his top run an almost linear gradient curve. After the first 30 km tight it follows from Sinsheim its western watershed. From wall he runs in the bottom part of a former Neckar sling. From Bammental the river often causes flooding. On the bottom about 700 m from the mouth upstream to a weir the Elsenz is navigable by small watercraft.

Inflows

Origin of Elsenz little west of the Ortsrandes of Epping - Elsenz in the beginning Seewald

  • Kingdom of Heaven Bach, from right at Epping - Raußmühle, 6.0 km
  • Hilsbach from the left in Epping, 10.4 km
  • Staud Bach, from right in front of Epping - plantains, 5.3 km
  • Narrow creek, from right in front of Epping - plantains, 5.0 km
  • Berwanger Bach, from right in plantains, 10.2 km
  • Red Blade ditch, left to plantains, 3.5 km
  • Sulzgraben from the left in Ittlingen, 5.1 km
  • Bock steward Bach, right at the court of Hammberger Ittlingen, 3.8 km
  • Bins blade from right in front of Sinsheim series, 5.0 km
  • Bach row, from left in rows 3.0 km
  • Insenbach, right on the southern edge of Sinsheim- Steinsfurt, 9.1 km
  • Goldbach, from right in Steinsfurt, 5.6 km
  • Rohrbach, from right in Sinsheim- Rohrbach, 3.0 km
  • Weidbach, from right in Sinsheim, 4.6 km
  • Ilves Bach, from the left in Sinsheim, 6.8 km
  • Dührener Bach, from left Sinsheim- Hoffenheim, 5.8 km
  • Tree bush ditch from the right in Hoffenheim, 5.9 km
  • Schwarzenbach, right on the southern edge of the landscape of home, 27.6 km. The largest inflow and water content than Elsenz itself
  • Lobbach or May- Bach, from right in Meckenheim, 14.7 km
  • Rohrbächel, from left in Meckenheim, 3.1 km
  • Weihwiesenbach from the left in Bammental, 4.2 km
  • Biddersbach, from right to Bammental, 9.7 km
  • Hilsbach, from left, divides the war into a mill and a Bammental Neckargemünd share, 4.9 km

Mouth of the Elsenz in Neckargemuend from the left in the Neckar.

Catchment area

The catchment area of ​​the Elsenz comprises about 540 km ² and has approximately the shape of a south-facing wedge initially fairly constant width of about 22 km and about 36 km in length. The northwestern corner of the inflow area is located at Heidelberg ( summit of King chair ), the northeastern between Neunkirchen and Lindachstraße in Eberbach, the wedge tip little south of Mühlbach near Epping. To the north bordering the catchment areas of the rivers Neckar and at the same place Pleutersbach opening into the Neckar Neckar small tributary, north of the Neckar is therefore often less than two kilometers from the watershed. Even in its northeastern region is the there sometimes more Neckar main competitor, before further south to successively the catchment areas of the river Neckar flows Mühlbach, flax and - now in its south - adjacent Zaber. In the southwest and west of the catchment areas of Kraichbach and Leimbach, both inflows and proceeding clockwise to the Upper Rhine, in the northwest before the watershed runs back to the river Neckar.

Places and places of settlement at the Elsenz

  • District of Heilbronn city ​​Epping Elsenz (village)
  • Elsenztalsiedlung ( to Elsenz, right)
  • Rohrbach am Gießhübel (village, mostly on the right)
  • Gießhübelmühle ( industrial area to Rohrbach, right)
  • Community Sulzfeld Gießhübelmühle (Hof, right)
  • City ​​Epping Raußmühle (Hof, right)
  • Epping ( Central City )
  • Plantains (village, mostly on the right)
  • Ittlingen (village, mostly on the left)
  • Peace Horst ( Sägmühlanwesen, left)
  • Sinsheim Rows (village)
  • Keller's Mill ( in rows, left)
  • Steinsfurt (village)
  • Rohrbach (village, predominantly on the right)
  • Sinsheim ( central city)
  • Hoffenheim (village, mostly on the right)
  • Piston mill ( mill property, the right to Mühlkanal )
  • Zuzenhausen (village)
  • Meckenheim (village)
  • Wall (village)
  • Reilsheim ( district )
  • Bammental
  • War mill ( living space, left)
  • War mill ( house left)
  • Fulling mill ( house, right)
  • Neckargemuend ( central city)
Heilbronn (district) Rhein-Neckar-Kreis Eppingen Town Municipality Mauer (Baden) Schwarzbach (Kraichgau) Meckesheim Lobbach (Elsenz) Sulzfeld, Baden-Württemberg Gemmingen
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