Epbach

View from Waldenburg over the upper valley of the Epbachs on the eastern part of the Hohenlohe plain. In the valley of the upper and the lower mill of the village with its mill pond.

The Epbach is a creek in the Hohenlohe region in northern Baden- Württemberg, which opens into the Ohrn after almost 17 km run in the district of the city Öhringen Cappel from the right and east.

Geography

Source and course

Origin

The Epbach rises to about 465 m above sea level. NN in the Swabian-Franconian Forest mountains on a forest track multiple fork in the beginning of the slope Waldbrunnen Hölzle, about 200 m east of Waldburg- brick hut. Here, at the upper step edge of Waldburger mountains in the area of a very flat saddle, no 400 m in the west southwest of the top run of the beaver is reversed beyond that to the south, it has a narrow north-northeast oriented forest gorge has dug.

Headwaters to the building division

No 600 m after the source and about 70 m below the adjacent hillside creek for the first time at the Meadow hall on the eastern slopes of the Waldenburg northern spur. After over one kilometer run he finally enters from the forest and happened right Wałbrzyskie Upper Mill, about 1.5 km it flows through the two together about 1.1 hectare Mühlweiher of the mill. Only after about 2.7 km, it has the mountain slope, at the foot last lay fields, at about 355 m above sea level. NN completely left behind and now flows rather flat and unverdolt in Brühl through Waldburg- copper Zeller industrial area, where he runs through under the railway line of the railway line Crailsheim -Heilbronn; on a short piece he's here transboundary waters to the municipality copper cell. The Epbach sets here on a slow curve to the left, passes under the A 6, which limits the industrial area in the north. He then runs into very straight drawn, from an almost woody plants without green stripes accompanied trough in nearly west through farmland between the motorway in the south and the nearer part of the domain Hohebuch through. Now after a total of about 5 km run and with a catchment area of ​​about 5 sq. km in the meantime it reaches close to a dirt road at about 342 m above sea level. NN a division structure.

From the division structure to Kesselbach

The division structure passes at normal water level to flow down the left outgoing underground pipe to the southwest of the A 6 round onto the grounds of Waldburger treatment plant the fish house. During floods, the surplus shall be forwarded in a straight line and then flows into the upper SalI inflow deer creek. The site of the wastewater treatment plant crosses the creek open again, before switching back to the south side of the railway line. Then it flows from the left to the Bauzenbach, who, like his own top- running through a northeastern, seam here through an ongoing erosion north bay on one side of the Waldburger northern spur of Waldburger mountains. Immediately after the Epbach flows into the pond at a Waldburger Rebbichshof and still occurs in the settlement area of the hamlet on the territory of the city on New stone. In the future, he draws mainly in a westerly direction before walking the Waldburger mountains in the south of Hohenlohe plain to its mouth. On the next good three kilometers, the river slowly digs a fairly narrow grassy hollow, loyal accompanied by the railway line on the right hill. Right on the slopes lie in succession the three small Neuensteinerstrasse Pfaffenweiler, Hohrain and Obereppach. Multiple short walk from side ditches, the water supplied in at least the last Untereppach formerly a mill. In Untereppach opens from the left of the boiler Bach; on the southeast slope above the feed is a mineral spring in the Lower Keuper.

From Kesselbach to the mouth

A little later he passed the hamlet Eichhof on the right slope, its valley is spanned by the L 1036 and he enters the precincts of the town and former residence New stone. In his here applied as a park dump flows on a portion of a side branch, and he passed the Schleifsee on his right and the Castle New stone, which is surrounded to the west and south of the large water surface of a plastic pond, by the him of Bernbach flows from the right. On the outskirts of New Stone joins from the left of the longest of its tributaries, the 4.5 km long Eschelbach. After Bernardtsmühle along its course it passes over on area of ​​the city Öhringen. In the village Eckartsweiler with the Weinbach reached him his only major right tributary. None kilometers further he reached the city limits of Cappel, where the Epbach after a run of 16.7 km approximately 229 m above sea level. NN from the right and flows in a southeasterly direction to the Ohrn, which now turns here according to the preceding run north to west.

Catchment area

The largest proportion of the catchment area has new stone, a smaller east of it Waldenburg, the lowest Öhringen in the West.

Inflows

Origin of Epbach to about 465 m above sea level. NN on a forest track multiple fork in the beginning of the slope Waldbrunnen Hölzle, about 200 m east of Waldburg- brick hut.

  • Current flows through two millponds at the Waldburger Untermühle together about 1.1 ha
  • Division structure at Won Fasanenhof for deer creek.
  • Bauzenbach, left the Rebbigshof, 2.0 km and 1.8 km ².
  • Current flows through a 0.4 -acre pond immediately before the Rebbichshof.
  • Down slope Bach from the Holy fountain, from the right, 0.3 km.
  • Happened on the right side of a 0.4 -acre pond at the foot of New Stone Pfaffenweiler.
  • Exit to the left of the protective meadow creek, which flows back into the stream after 0.3 km at New Stone Hohrain again.
  • Exit to the left side of a trench which flows back into the stream after 0.1 km at New Stone Obereppach back.
  • Hang Bach by Obereppach, from the right, 0.3 km.
  • Exit to the right of about 0.3 km long Untereppacher Mühlkanals ends blindly without apparent reflux.
  • Kesselbach from the left in Untereppach at the Epbachbrücke the K 2356 New stone Kesselfeld, 3.0 km and 2.8 km ².
  • Exit to the right of a 0.4 km long parallel trench in the Bachaue which flows back still in incipient Park of New stone.
  • Passes through the 0.2 -acre Schleifsee after the return of the parallel trench.
  • Bernbach, from right in New rock below the castle park, 1,2 km .. current flows through recently in the castle park the 0.7 -acre pond art.
  • Exit to the right right after the 0.4 km long Parallelverdolung in New stone that flows back after the sports ground.
  • Inflow from the Weidenfeld, from left just before the return of Verdolung in de Epbach itself, 0.9 km.
  • Eschelbach, from left against the New Steiner tennis court, 4.5 km and 5.2 km ².
  • Inflow from a trough below the Gewanns Riedweg, from right below the tennis court 0,8 km.
  • Bach by the Haber blade of right just before Öhringen - Eckartsweiler, 1.2 km.
  • Weinbach, from right in Eckartsweiler at the bridge of the guard path, 2.6 km and 4.1 km ².
  • Exit to the right just before Öhringen -Cappel of 0.4-0.5 km long canal, which flows back in the beginning of the local area. Between the two arms of a 0.3 -acre pond.

Mouth of the Epbachs after a run of 16.7 km just west of Öhringen - Cappeler Epbachbrücke from the right in the Ohrn.

Places and settlements on the run

Hohenlohe

  • Waldenburg Upper Mill (Weiler, left)
  • Untermühle (Weiler, left)
  • At the station ( industrial area )
  • At the station ( industrial area )
  • Rebbigshof ( hamlet )
  • Rebbigshof ( hamlet )?
  • Hohrain (Weiler, especially on the right)
  • Obereppach (Weiler, right)
  • Untereppach ( hamlet )
  • Eichhof (Weiler, right)
  • New stone ( administrative center )
  • Bernhard mill ( homestead )
  • Eckartsweiler (village)
  • Cappel (village)

Geology

The course of the Epbachs starts at a saddle in the Lower Colorful marls ( Steigerwald Formation) which connects two plateaus in pebble sandstone ( Hassberge Formation). On the left in the direction of flow is the Waldburger core city, right the woods on the mountain Friedrich. The Epbach reached very quickly the Gipskeuper ( grave field formation ), in the grounds identified in the troubled slope. In this it flows, even before he reached the mill about, even in a Auenlehmstreifen, which greatly widens at the foot of the slope in the Waldenburg industrial area. On today's building division to set this again very narrow Talfüllungsstreifen in constant direction away to the upper Hirschbachwinkel. The verdolt here under one acre run to the left normal flow of the stream, however, is how he comes back to light after passing under the railway line at the Waldburger treatment plant, close to the Bauzenbach inflow from the left again in a wider Auenlehmbereich. After Rebbigshof stands in the valley and soon even on the slopes of the Lower Keuper, where the stream runs over the greater part of its length. From about Eckartsweiler the valley floor is then in the Upper Muschelkalk, the back -onset valley filling expands almost to the confluence with the Ohrn, where probably a fault with the downward depth plaice crosses the valley.

Approximately 300-400 m south-west of New Castle Steiner of the creek in an old Lower Keuper quarry Lettenkeuper main sandstone is left open in Flutfacies. In the same layer of the reduction was in a derelict quarry right of the stream half a mile before Eckartsweiler.

Hohenlohe (district) Neckar Bibers Sall (river) Kunstteich Kupfer (river) Goldbach (Bibers)
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